Owl's Nest, also known as Edward Eggleston Estate, is a National Historic Landmark. Edward Eggleston, 1837-1902, was one of America's first realist writers. He began summering there in the 1870s and it was his permanent home from the mid-1880s until his death.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
It is located on NY 9L, in the area of Joshua's Rock, in Lake George, New York.
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“For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Under that wide hearth
a nest of rattlers,
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had wintered and were coming awake.
The warming rock
flushed them out early.”
—Robert Morgan (b. 1944)