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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends?EUR??,,????'?????<??oeIt gives a lovely light! "First Fig," 1918, Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet/playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1923). Two years later, she and husband Eugen Boissevain bought a berry farm and farmhouse in Austerlitz, New York and named it ?EUR??,,????'?????<?Steepletop.?EUR??,,????'?????<? Millay created a series of sunken gardens, including a rose garden and a large kitchen garden, an outdoor bar, a swimming pool and a badminton court. The Garden Conservancy is working with the Millay Society to restore the gardens. Landscape architect Wendy Carroll of Chatham is leading the garden restoration. J. Peter Bergman, executive director of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society is in charge of making the home and grounds into a fully accessible historic site. Bergman says the property will open to the public by the summer of 2010 ?EUR??,,????'?????<?at whatever level of restoration we achieve.” The gardens now open on select dates through the conservancy?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s open days program (call 845-265-5384). Millay lived at Steepletop until her death in 1950. She, her husband, her mother, her sister and her brother-in-law are buried in a woodland clearing. For more info, visit millaysociety.org
Poet/playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1923). Two years later, she and husband Eugen Boissevain bought a berry farm and farmhouse in Austerlitz, New York and named it ?EUR??,,????'?????<?Steepletop.?EUR??,,????'?????<? Millay created a series of sunken gardens, including a rose garden and a large kitchen garden, an outdoor bar, a swimming pool and a badminton court.
The Garden Conservancy is working with the Millay Society to restore the gardens. Landscape architect Wendy Carroll of Chatham is leading the garden restoration.
J. Peter Bergman, executive director of the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society is in charge of making the home and grounds into a fully accessible historic site. Bergman says the property will open to the public by the summer of 2010 ?EUR??,,????'?????<?at whatever level of restoration we achieve.” The gardens now open on select dates through the conservancy?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s open days program (call 845-265-5384).
Millay lived at Steepletop until her death in 1950. She, her husband, her mother, her sister and her brother-in-law are buried in a woodland clearing.
For more info, visit millaysociety.org
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
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