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From: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
Date: 20061030
Author:OF THE NEWS STAFF; ALICIA ANSTEAD

More than 90 years ago, a young Edna St. Vincent Millay stood on the porch of a grand home in Camden and spoke these lines: "All I could see from where I stood/Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked the other way/And saw three islands in a bay." The girl went on to recite all of "Renascence," the landmark poem that would open the path to her literary stardom.

Millay, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who was born in Rockland and raised in Camden, might be surprised at the number of writers living, working or spending some portion of their professional life in her old ...

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