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Edward F Albee Foundation

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The Edward F. Albee Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center (better known as “The Barn”) in Montauk, on Long Island in New York, as a residence for writers, painters, sculptors and composers. The Center is open from June 1st to October 1st, and can accommodate comfortably up to five persons at a … Continued

Booker T Washington House

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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

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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.

Home Sweet Home, John Howard Payne House

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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

Joseph Lloyd Manor

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Jupiter Hammon’s residence, Lloyd Manor, is a historic house museum. Tours are given from June until September. Hammon was a slave of the Lloyd family of Oyster Bay and is considered to be the first black writer to be published in America.