As our 55th-anniversary year comes to a close, we’d are featuring profiles of some of our Life Members, who make the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter what it is.
From Madeline Aron:
The first 10 years of my life were spent in the Berkshire Hills in Lenox, Massachusetts. My parents were 1st-generation Eastern European Jewish-Americans. They established a culturally and racially inclusive hotel and arts center that helped change the discriminatory practices of the area.
With the down payment given to them through a like-minded friend, they purchased a gilded-age mansion when it was under foreclosure so they could create an affordable and inclusive inn where anyone could come and enjoy the beautiful Berkshire hills and the Boston symphony summer concerts at ...
