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Article: New Hampshire town wants famed arts colony to pay property taxes
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- November 12, 2005
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HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-12-2005
Dateline: PETERBOROUGH, New Hampshire
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 ...
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