Desc: Cherry Cottage: The Story of an American House: Directed by Dave Simonds. With Barbara Allen, Henry W. Art, Peter Begley, Sally Higginson Begley. This feature-length documentary tells the story of America through the owners and inhabitants of a small cottage in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We meet Hans Morris and follow him as he discovers the history of the little house on the edge of his property. From the Native American inhabitants of New England to the 1960s counterculture, the history of Cherry Cottage is intertwined with the history of the region and the country as a whole.