Millay Society opening poet’s Steepletop retreat to public tours
By APMonday, February 22, 2010
Millay Society opening Steepletop to tours
AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. — The Millay Society plans to open Steepletop, the home of the late poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, to the public for tours starting May 28.
Millay was a native of Maine but she lived and worked at the farmhouse on the Taconic Ridge for her last 25 years. She died there in 1950. Society Executive Director Peter Bergman says the tour will feature Millay’s private suite on the second floor of the farmhouse, including her bedroom and work room and library, with the rooms much as the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet left them. Visitors will be able to walk the 191-acre grounds and gardens.
A poet’s walk on the estate has been open and free since 2003. It leads through the woods to the gravesite of Millay and her family, with passages of her poetry posted along the way.
House tours will cost $15 per person. Guided garden tours cost $12. Austerlitz is 30 miles southeast of Albany.
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