MacDowell, set amidst over 450 acres of New Hampshire woodlands, is a quiet, magical enclave where esteemed and select artists find their freedom to create unhindered by the worries of the world. While each season of fellows, as these select artisans is called, builds their own community as they share in the sacred spaces of creativity where other artisans became giants in their fields. It must be breathtakingly wonderful and, at the same time, bewilderingly humbling. Once you find out about MacDowell, you come to understand why the art culture of Peterborough seems to seep from every corner. A “typical” New England small town, but one with an art culture that is particularly systemic.