“All I could see from where I stood was three long mountains and a wood. I turned and looked another way and saw three islands in a bay.”

                                    Renascence, Edna St. Vincent Millay

On a warm August evening in 1912, a local young girl, Edna St. Vincent Millay, first recited her celebrated poem Renascance to an enraptured audience of guests and staff. The poem was written atop Mt. Battie, just above the back side of our inn. One of our inn guests was so taken with the talent of “Vincent”, she sponsored her college education after which she went on to become one of America’s favorite poets. The room in the inn where Millay was discovered, including a grand piano on which she also performed, provides a glimpse into the life and writings of the accomplished writer.