BRW: Behind the Blind 2

So I joined Substack in June. 

The platform offers writers the opportunity to create newsletters featuring their work. Newsletters have become more of a thing lately. I send out my BRW posts this way. I hope to expand my audience with it.

Substack writers offer paid subscriptions as well as free ones. The paid ones often provide exclusive extras. The whole thing is still very new to me, not unlike the first time I created a blog. 

Will I get anywhere with this? We’ll see.

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#HudsonValley: Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Years At Vassar College

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet graduated from this former women’s college in Poughkeepsie.

by Rich Watson 

Edna St. Vincent Millay was a poet from the early twentieth century. Her poem “Ballad of the Harp-Weaver” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, the first time the award went to a woman poet.

She achieved notoriety early in life, which led to an education at a distinguished school: Vassar College.

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#HudsonValley: Washington Irving’s Tarrytown and the House He Made His Home, Sunnyside

One of the best American writers of the 1800s lived in this converted farmhouse in Tarrytown.

by Rich Watson 

Washington Irving was an acclaimed writer from the nineteenth century, whose works are well remembered today.

The New York City native (it was Irving who gave New York the Anglo-Saxon nickname “Gotham,” meaning “goat’s town”) served in the War of 1812. He then spent seventeen years traveling in Europe, beginning in 1815. He returned to America in 1832.

Three years later, he purchased a house in a town upstate in which he had stayed briefly as a child: Tarrytown.

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