Pastoral Exhibition 2006

The exhibition, installed in the Bungalow at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park on July 21 and 22, 2006, featured the work of Vermont artists Elizabeth Billings, Peter Brooke, and Glenn Suokko and writers Heather Bagley, Pamela Harrison, Carol Westberg, and Clyde Watson.

Tours of the collection of American landscape paintings housed in the Mansion and tours of the formal gardens and grounds were led by park guides.

The historic Woodstock home of three families over 130 years, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park interprets the site’s unique legacy and continuing commitment to conservation and stewardship of the forest landscape.

The Bungalow, built in 1916 on a wooded slope near the Mansion as a secluded, quiet retreat for Mary Montagu Billings French, was later used by her daughter Mary French Rockefeller and Laurance Rockefeller as a guesthouse. They arranged it with furniture, carvings, and paintings from a Rockefeller summer cottage and added art and textiles they had acquired during their world travels.