 White River Junction served as the location for the filming of director D.W. Griffith's film "Way Down East", in part filmed on the ice floes of the Connecticut and White rivers, starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess.While filming, both cast and crew lodged at the Hotel Coolidge (then the Junction House).After 1950, important murals were painted on the walls of this hotel by Peter Gish.