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April 25, 2006: Edith Wharton's Library Returns Home from England
" The appearance of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1998 helped publicize the work of the Edith Wharton Restoration, which less than a year later received a $2.9 million federal grant for restoration of the author's country home, The Mount. Yesterday, first lady Laura Bush was in Lenox to mark a defining moment in The Mount's recent history, the return of the author's library from England."
