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Time Is Running Out for Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Upstate Retreat

The Steepletop property, former home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, in Austerlitz, N.Y., May 5, 2018. The property she bought in the 1920s, and where she died in 1950, is in peril of closing to the public by the end of the year because the society that oversees the property is in financial crisis. (Nathaniel Brooks/The New York Times)