dream was born 120 years ago on the southeast shore of Lake George: Wiawaka Holiday House, a haven for any woman—no matter the size of her pocketbook—to take a break from the daily grind. It was a pet project of Mary Fuller, the daughter of a successful stove manufacturer in Troy, who noticed the rock-bottom wages and unrelenting pace of workers at the city’s shirt-collar factories. So Fuller approached her friends Katrina and Spencer Trask with a plan to establish an affordable resort for urban working women. The Trasks joined the cause and bought Crosbyside, a mid-19th-century
Feminine Mystique
Sep 21, 2023
3 minutes
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