Kensico Cemetery is the final resting place for Peter Arno, Marion Bauer, Thomas Broadhurst, Paddy Chayefsky, Dorothy Graham, John McGowan, Harold Milligan, Allan Nevins, Anne Nichols, David Graham Phillips, Ayn Rand, Sydney Rosenfeld, Deems Taylor, Francis Wilson, and Keith Winter.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), writer, educator, Up from Slavery, owned a house, still standing, near Cousins Avenue, Fort Salonga, Northport, in 1911.
Green River Cemetery in Springs, Town of East Hampton, New York, is where Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jean Stafford, newspaper columnist Pierre Franey, art historian and critic Henry Geldzahler, newspaper columnist A. J. Liebling, writer Jan Yoors, poet Hilda Morley, poet Frank O’Hara, art critic Harold Rosenberg, and writer D. H. Melhem are buried.
Yaddo Artists Colony, founded by Kate (Katrina) Trask, is located off Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs. Among the writers who have been in residence are James Baldwin, Paul Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks, Claude Brown, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, John Ciardi, Amy Clampitt, Peter Davison, Kenneth Fearing, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, David Ignatow, Alfred Kreymborg, … Continued
The National Women’s Hall of Fame houses literature from women who were significant in the suffrage movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Women’s Rights National Historical Park, was the home of the activist.
Home Sweet Home, 14 James Lane, East Hampton, New York, is the house at which John Howard Payne spent his childhood. It is on The National Register of Historic Places, open different times, different months. Inside is a chest made in 1640 which is documented to be the oldest piece of furniture made in the … Continued
International Women’s Writing Guild Summer Conference, PO Box 810 Gracie Station, NY 10028 (mailing address), takes place in summer at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. It includes workshops, readings, and many other literary events.
John Burroughs lived and worked for the last 25 years of his life in the Slabsides cabin in Ulster County, and the Slabsides Nature Preserve, which is still in existence, has been named a Natural Historic Site. Mailing Address: The John Burroughs Association, Inc. at the American Museum of Natural History, 15 West 77th Street, … Continued
The Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony was founded as an Arts & Crafts Community in 1903 and is still operating.