Barnard hotels collection

Among the maples and beeches of Barnard, stone walls run through the middle of the forest: they were built for sheep, once grazing had cleared the hills, and the trees came back after the flocks. The village grew up at the outlet of Silver Lake, clapboard houses painted white, barns under tin roofs. In summer, people swim from the wooded shore of the state park. The journalist Dorothy Thompson, who settled in these hills after years of reporting from Europe, lies in the village cemetery.