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Campus Windmill to Be Designated 'Literary Landmark'
Tennessee Williams wrote a play while living in the windmill at Stony Brook Southampton.
The windmill at the Stony Brook Southampton campus, formerly Southampton College, has long been considered a local landmark, but now it is slated to receive national acclaim in the arts world as it is named a Literary Landmark on Saturday.
United for Libraries, which has named 120 Literary Landmarks in the U.S. since 1986, is bestowing the title on the windmill because of its connection to playwright Tennessee Williams.
According to United for Libraries, "In the summer of 1957, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams lived in the campus windmill and wrote an experimental play, 'The Day on Which a Man Dies,' responding to the death of his friend, Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock."
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At 3:45 p.m. Saturday, Frederic Tuten will put on a reading of his one-act play “At Stanley's Place,” which is named for Stanley Kowalski of Williams' play “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
The dedication ceremony begins at 5:15 p.m., following by a reception.
The dedication ceremony begins at 5:15 p.m., following by a reception.
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