Edna St. Vincent Millay: Steepletop
Steepletop, a wooded mountain in upstate New York, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s home for twenty-five years.
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In his last days, Grant took refuge in an Adirondack Cottage. In this most peaceful of places he wrote the tale of America’s bloodiest war.
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It was here, far from the sea, that Melville wrote the craziest, wordiest, most magnificent novel ever to baffle generations of high school students and send shivers down the spine: Moby Dick.
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Perhaps more than any other writer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings showed her love of the land in her writing. Trees and flowers flowed all through her pages.
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Can plants create great literature? Of course they can, plants can do anything.
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Rudyard Kipling designed his house, Naulakha, to ride the Vermont hills like a ship on a wave. Here he wrote the Jungle Books and the beloved Just So Stories.
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