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THE BARN: v2.0 (2024)

The Big White Barn was built some time in the late 1920s to serve as the horse stables for the Montauk Manor... (top-right in the photo below) ...
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Over the years it ended up moving from private ownership to community usage, serving as a dancehall and a rollerskating rink, among other purposes...
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Edward Albee acquired the property in 1963, using proceeds from the sale of his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Warner Brothers Studios...
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After a modest renovation, living and working quarters suitable for 4-5 people at a time were apportioned and Edward opened the space up as a seasonal residency program for people from all walks of life practicing all creative media...
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The Edward F. Albee Foundation was born and the William Flanagan Memorial Persons Center was launched...
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Creative People from around the world came to work, sleep, play, laugh, cook, surf, sail, swim and sift themselves into two basic categories: those who knew they had to keep going as creative people no matter what and those who knew that sand, surf and self-sacrifice would suffice... the do's and the do differents...
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For over 50 years this worked out well, with makeshift doorknobs, fluctuating water temperatures and questionable bulges in the paintwork...
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In 2016, Edward Albee, our Founder and eponym, passed away, leaving resources and clear direction...  the seeds for the next 50 years (and more) were already planted...

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The Barn v2.0

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