Just over a century ago in New Hampshire, Edward and Marian MacDowell opened the doors of America’s first official artists colony. Aaron Copland wrote "Billy the Kid" there. Willa Cather worked on Death Comes for the Archbishop. And Mike Daisey went to work on a monologue. He spent a month in one of the wooded cabins at the MacDowell Colony last summer, and shares this story with us.
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He sounded like he is related to Garrison Keillor in some way, like a best friend or family relation. I sincerely enjoyed listening to this installment.
It also gave me a new found gumption to actually apply for a [MacDowell] grant at the Art Students League [NYC] Not that I have any hope of winning anything. although "one never knows, do one?"-- I might have a Mike Daisey moment.
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