![]() Hallie is the first of many women in " The Red Garden" who desire something found only outside Blackwell. She often "gazed out the window, as if there was someplace she wanted to be, some other life that was more worth living." In her civilized sorrow, she gardened and created the curious patch of ground that gives the book its title. When the other settlers warmed up and established a small village, Hallie missed her forest. She loved that bear and the wild mountains. She kept families alive by stealing her husband's boots and gun and hunting in the woods, where she spent many happy, freezing nights in a bear's den. Hallie, unlike the other settlers felled by the winter's cold, was unafraid. As we learn in the first story, "The Bear's House," feisty Hallie Brady founded Blackwell, originally named Bearsville, in 1750. ![]() ![]() Alice Hoffman's "The Red Garden" is a dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories set in Blackwell, Mass., a small town in the Berkshires. ![]()
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