Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (HMNOV)

Location: Camden, ME 04843 Knox County
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Country: United States of America
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N 44° 13.366', W 69° 4.156'

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1892 — 1950

"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.
So with my eyes I traced the line
Of the horizon, thin and fine,
Straight around till I was come
Back to where I'd started from;
And all I saw from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood."

???— First stanza "Renascence," by Edna St. Vincent Millay written in 1910 in the environs of Mount Battie

At the age of eighteen, a frail girl with flaming red hair left her home in early morning to climb her favorite Camden Hills, where so deeply affected by her surroundings, she wrote "Renascence." The poem received immediate public acclaim and was the inspired beginning of the career of America's finest lyric poet.
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HM NumberHMNOV
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Year Placed1967
Placed ByA gift of Ida Povich Dondis
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Date Added Monday, September 1st, 2014 at 3:42am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)19T E 494467 N 4896617
Decimal Degrees44.22276667, -69.06926667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 44° 13.366', W 69° 4.156'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds44° 13' 21.96" N, 69° 4' 9.36" W
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Area Code(s)207
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 7001-7199 Mt Battie Trail, Camden ME 04843, US
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