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Unger heard Ray call Yaddo to explain that he was unable to accept its invitation: He was afraid to go in the condition he was in, and he was incredibly sad about it.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel, who has been awarded residencies at a number of artists 'colonies — such as Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, Sacatar in Brazil and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio villa in Italy — says the many scattered buildings on Merestead make the estate especially suited for a composers' colony.
A Composer's Sanctuary Corinnada Fonseca-Wollheim 2009
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There are "long-shot" residencies, such as Yaddo and MacDowell, which can be as selective as the Ivy League.
Talking About Writers' Residencies: An Interview with Stephanie Elizondo Griest Erika D. 2008
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“… I’m writing this at a place called Yaddo… it’s afternoon, early August,” Carver announces in that essay.
Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009
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Like the most influential and important artist residencies, such as Yaddo, Skowhegan and the MacDowell Colony, artists must be working professionally and would be admitted based on artistic excellence and promise.
JTA - Recent News Rebecca Gruber 2010
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"Yaddo," she said, now pointing at the sign saying "YADDO" on the side of a building portico with multiple columns that reminded me of the scene in "Sex and the City" where Carrie runs down the stairs in her wedding dress.
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Cheever spent the summer of 1934 at Yaddo, which would serve as a second home for much of his life.
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Cheever spent the summer of 1934 at Yaddo, which would serve as a second home for much of his life.
June « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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For the next few years, Cheever divided his time between Manhattan, Saratoga, Lake George (where he was caretaker of the Yaddo-owned Triuna Island), and Quincy, where he continued to visit his parents, who had reconciled and moved to an apartment at 60 Spear Street.
June « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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For the next few years, Cheever divided his time between Manhattan, Saratoga, Lake George (where he was caretaker of the Yaddo-owned Triuna Island), and Quincy, where he continued to visit his parents, who had reconciled and moved to an apartment at 60 Spear Street.
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