Ameliasburgh Purdy Dept: For more than 40 years Purdy and his wife Eurithe welcomed writers, both aspiring and accomplished, to converse, to debate, to argue about poetry at the A-frame house nestled in the Prince Edward County hamlet of Ameliasburgh Purdy forgoes the h in his writings of the place , according to The Star. Yet the fight to buy and preserve the storied home as a writer s retreat has stalled along with the economy, said Jean Baird, Vancouver-based publishing consultant and many-time houseguest and made of salvaged lumber in 1957, the house that beloved Canadian poet Al Purdy built sits on the bank of a rural Ontario lake, its future as insecure as its rickety footings. She offered sandwiches; he served whisky.
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