With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
93 Kenyon Road, Hampton
- Trail Wood
- Private Residence
- Edwin Way Teale
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Trail Wood was Teale's home in Hampton, where he lived from 1959 until his death in 1980. Here he wrote the last ten or more of his books which popularized nature observation and conservation.
- Description of Significance/Historical Narrative
- Trail Wood is significant as the rural refuge to which writer/photographer Edwin Way Teale and his wife Nellie Imogene Donovan Teale moved in 1959 when they left Long Island. It became their personal sanctuary where they cultivated wildlife habitat, observed the natural world, and where Edwin Way Teale wrote books on natural history and developed techniques for photographing nature. The property became both an inspiration and a laboratory in the formative years of the post-World War II conservation movement. On this property Edwin Way Teale wrote his later books including 'Wandering Through Winter' for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Listed on the State Register as part of the Creative Places project.
- Date of Construction
- 1806
- Historic Designation(s)