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James Merrill House
The James Merrill House is a 19th-century late-Victorian style house at 107 Water Street in Stonington (borough), Connecticut, Stonington Borough in southeastern Connecticut, formerly owned by poet James Merrill. Upon his death in 1995, the house was kept by the village as a home for writers and scholars. History The American poet James Merrill and his partner David Noyes Jackson, David Jackson moved to the borough of Stonington (borough), Connecticut, Stonington, Connecticut, in 1954, purchasing a property at 107 Water Street. It had once been a nineteenth-century residential and commercial structure that had first served as a drug store and a residence for the owner's family. Merrill spent summers in Stonington borough until his death in 1995. Village life and the apartment itself inspired some of his most important work, including ''The Changing Light at Sandover'', his book-length epic poem based on Merrill's and Jackson's communications with the spirit world by means of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stonington, CT
Stonington is a town located on Long Island Sound in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The municipal limits of the town include the borough of Stonington, the villages of Pawcatuck, Lords Point, and Wequetequock, and the eastern halves of the villages of Mystic and Old Mystic. Stonington is part of the Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region. The population of the town was 18,335 at the 2020 census. The town is home to many restored homes and preserves its long nautical history. History The first European colonists to arrive include William Chesebrough and Walter Palmer in Wequetequock, Thomas Minor in Quiambaug, and Thomas Stanton in Pawcatuck. Stanton established a trading house in the Pawcatuck section of town in 1649. The present territory of Stonington was part of lands that had belonged to the Pequot people, who referred to the areas making up Stonington as ''Paquatuck'' (Stony Brook to the Pawcatuck River) and ''Mistack'' (Mystic River to Stony B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
