Talk:Stark, New York

Famous residents
Correction:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings never owned property in Van Hornesville. During the summer of 1947 she was invited by her friend, the wife of Owen Young, to stay in a cottage the Youngs owned in Van Hornesville. He was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1929, a potential candidate for president in 1932, retired chairman of GE and founder of RCA.He was born in Van Hornesville and met Rawlings near St Augustine Florida at Crescent Beach where MKR and her husband Norton Baskin lived. Owen and his wife spent their winters nearby. During the summer of 1947 she esplored the neighboring countryside around Van Hornesville and found an old hops farm that she bought...In Springfield Center, Otsego County not Van Hornesville, Herkimer County. She spent each summr there for the rest of her life until she died in 1953. Th reaason I know all of this is that I lived in her house in Springfield Center from 1958 to 1961 and knew all of her farm neighbors; my grandfather had bought the farm from the Rawlings estate after she died. There has been much confusion about MKR's residence in New York and all of her biographers have mistakenly placed her in Van Hornesville when she was living in Springfield Center in the house she owned. I have posted a number of messages on this subjext on the MKR email discussion group site. P.S. The Van Hornesville official web site lists one promnent former resident: Owen C. Young. Marjorie was certainly prominent but she was not a resident.

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