恶人谷

N.H. Town Wants Taxes From Artist Colony
By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press Writer
Sat Nov 12, 5:35 PM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051112/ap_ ... taxing_art

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - At the MacDowell Colony, where isolation spurs inspiration, artists emerge from their cottages at midday to find picnic baskets left quietly on their doorsteps. But when it comes to property taxes, the town insists there's no such thing as a free lunch.

For nearly a century, the famed artists' retreat has welcomed thousands of writers, composers and others who enjoy up to two months of rent-free solitude and support. Within its rustic stone and clapboard cottages, Thornton Wilder wrote "Our Town," Aaron Copland composed "Appalachian Spring" and Dobuse and Dorothy Heyward wrote "Porgy and Bess." More recently, Jonathan Franzen finished writing "The Corrections" and Alice Sebold worked on "The Lovely Bones."

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这地名怎么看怎么眼熟,仔细想了阵子,原来如比:

1956年2月13日，张爱玲填写了申请书寄往位于新罕布什尔州彼得堡的麦克道威尔文艺营，其中写道：

亲爱的先生／夫人：
　　我是一个来自香港的作家，根据1953年颁发的难民法令，移民来此。我在去年10月份来到这个国家。除了写作所得之外我别无其它收入来源。目前的经济压力逼使我向文艺营申请免费栖身，俾能让我完成已经动手在写的小说。我不揣冒昧，要求从3月13日到6月30日期间允许我居住在文艺营。

在麦克道威尔文艺营，张爱玲与赖雅相遇。这时赖雅65岁，张爱玲36岁。

这个地名我也熟悉，从前一个同学就住那儿。英国的Peterborough在剑桥郡，倒不在Hampshire。