began one of her best-known poems, "First Fig." For the first time since [Edna St. Vincent] Millay's death at age 58 in 1950--after she tumbled down the farmhouse's steep, narrow stairs and broke her neck on the first-floor landing--Steepletop opened to visitors for public tours last month. Four years of toil by a band of volunteers reclaimed the overgrown gardens and what had become a tumbledown manse worthy of a Gothic novel.
Even with the restoration, the place is a time warp, an eerie and heartbreaking shrine to the first woman awarded a Pulitzer Prize for poetry (in 1923) and a beloved poet who filled concert halls and made a substantial fortune from her writing, which included plays.
from Times Union: Edna St. Vincent Millay's home opens to public
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