Sleigh Maker Inn -Bed and Breakfast
87 West Main
Street
Westborough,
Phone
508-836-5546 ,
Fax: 508-836-3186 email:
Deborah@sleighmakerinn.com
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The Writer's Room The Writer's Room honors Westborough native and Pultizer Prize winning author, Esther Forbes. The room is bright and cherry, decorated in light colors with period pieces including a grape fingered ladies chair with original upholstery and an elegant dark cherry Queen Anne style queen size bed. Similar to the other two guest rooms, the Writer's Room has its own private bath. Rate for the Writers Room is $109 to $119 plus tax (corporate rates for weeknights available) Click on photos below for a larger view. |
(Esther Forbes Circa 1902)
Esther Forbes wrote Mirror for Witches in 1928, and
Miss Marvel in 1935. In 1937 she wrote Paradise, a book about
the early settlements in New England.
She published two pictorial essay books: The Boston Book in 1947 and America's Paul Revere in 1948. Rainbow on the Road was published in 1954 and The General's Lady was published in 1938
In 1942, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, was published and won the Pulitzer Prize in history for that year.
Johnny Tremain: A novel for Young and Old was published in 1943. Johnny Tremain was unique because it told the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of a boy, not a leader of the Revolution.
The Running of the Tide, published in 1959, follows the history of Salem as a port. It won the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Novel Award that year. MGM bought the rights for the book and Clark Gable was supposed to play the lead. MGM had financial problems at the time, so the movie was not made.
Esther Forbes was born in Westborough on June 28, 1891 and died on August 12, 1967.