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Invading Emily Dickinson's Privacy in Amherst, Massachusetts
You may not have been invited into the house back when Emily Dickinson was living her famously reclusive life, but nowadays you are free to visit the Emily Dickinson Museum and tour her home (The Homestead) and The Evergreens, her brother’s house next door. You won’t find any definitive answers as to why she secluded herself, but you will get glimpses of the details of her everyday world: The large gardens where she drew inspiration for her works, many of which celebrate the natural world; an astonishingly petite white dress she wore; the books she loved; and the poems she left behind. Amherst embraces its most famous daughter— a short walk from the Homestead takes you past a sculpture called A Poetic Dialogue (silhouettes of Dickinson and poet Robert Frost) to the Jones Library, which has a permanent exhibit about Dickinson.
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