YADDO @ Saratoga, NY Part 3

Founded in 1899 by the financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, herself a poet, Yaddo is an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.

Yaddo offers residencies to professional creative artists from all nations and backgrounds working in one or more of the following media: choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Artists may apply individually or as members of collaborative teams of two or three persons. They are selected by panels of other professional artists without regard to financial means. Residencies last from two weeks to two months and include room, board, and studio.

Left without immediate heirs by the deaths of their four young children, the Trasks decided to bequeath their home in Saratoga Springs, New York, to future generations of writers, composers, painters, and other creative artists. In a vision, Katrina Trask saw generations of talented men and women yet unborn walking the lawns of Yaddo, "creating, creating, creating."

The results of the Trasks' legacy have been historic. John Cheever once wrote that the "forty or so acres on which the principal buildings of Yaddo stand have seen more distinguished activity in the arts than any other piece of ground in the English-speaking community and perhaps the world."

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[DavesVideos313]

i see lots of greenery, so i am guessing this was.. last year spring / summer

fishes in the pond 

nice garden-esq

[GMPNY]

@DavesVideos313 Last FALL. All the flowers were basically gone. This place is 5 min from home. We are here a lot. Its an artists paradise and several of them lie tere in the big house on the property for free as long as they are working on their art, music or thei studies they can stay there free.

[DavesVideos313]

@GMPNY looks nice