King's House - evolution of purpose?

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Just saw a feature on a news program about King making his Bangor home into an archive/etc. Looked up this news article:

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Stephen and Tabitha King’s iconic Bangor home could house his archive and a writers’ retreat

Before that can happen city officials will need to approve a zone change requested by the Kings.
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Not sure if this has already been mentioned or not, didn't see it.

I myself would rather have the public also have access to visiting the home. I don't think that would be too bad an idea given the historical significance of the property. I assume though charity events will be held there that may be open to the public. Always loved that property. It is a great piece of real estate, one of the best.

Very surprised the family didn't want to keep it as is. Also surprised a member of his family didn't want to take it over. Again...that is some house. Then again, I suppose maybe the winters were getting to everyone (I assume the family must all be in warmer climes...completely understand that). If you are rich and don't have to physically move snow, winters probably aren't too annoying, but it's still better to be in warmer weather.

Anyway, curious about anyone else's thoughts. Do you think the house will eventually be public-facing (if that is the term I want)? I think this is just the first bid in the evolution of the place...
 
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Rrty said:
Just saw a feature on a news program about King making his Bangor home into an archive/etc. Looked up this news article:

bangordailynews.com

Stephen and Tabitha King’s iconic Bangor home could house his archive and a writers’ retreat

Before that can happen city officials will need to approve a zone change requested by the Kings.
bangordailynews.com bangordailynews.com

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or not, didn't see it.

I myself would rather have the public also have access to visiting the home. I don't think that would be too bad an idea given the historical significance of the property. I assume though charity events will be held there that may be open to the public. Always loved that property. It is a great piece of real estate, one of the best.

Very surprised the family didn't want to keep it as is. Also surprised a member of his family didn't want to take it over. Again...that is some house. Then again, I suppose maybe the winters were getting to everyone (I assume the family must all be in warmer climes...completely understand that). If you are rich and don't have to physically move snow, winters probably aren't too annoying, but it's still better to be in warmer weather.

Anyway, curious about anyone else's thoughts. Do you think the house will eventually be public-facing (if that is the term I want)? I think this is just the first bid in the evolution of the place...
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This was talked about in the Cantina starting with post 8486

 
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Rrty said:
Just saw a feature on a news program about King making his Bangor home into an archive/etc. Looked up this news article:

bangordailynews.com

Stephen and Tabitha King’s iconic Bangor home could house his archive and a writers’ retreat

Before that can happen city officials will need to approve a zone change requested by the Kings.
bangordailynews.com bangordailynews.com

Not sure if this has already been mentioned or not, didn't see it.

I myself would rather have the public also have access to visiting the home. I don't think that would be too bad an idea given the historical significance of the property. I assume though charity events will be held there that may be open to the public. Always loved that property. It is a great piece of real estate, one of the best.

Very surprised the family didn't want to keep it as is. Also surprised a member of his family didn't want to take it over. Again...that is some house. Then again, I suppose maybe the winters were getting to everyone (I assume the family must all be in warmer climes...completely understand that). If you are rich and don't have to physically move snow, winters probably aren't too annoying, but it's still better to be in warmer weather.

Anyway, curious about anyone else's thoughts. Do you think the house will eventually be public-facing (if that is the term I want)? I think this is just the first bid in the evolution of the place...
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As noted in the article, the Kings want to make sure that their neighbors are not significantly impacted by extra traffic on the street and opening it to the general public would greatly increase the chances of that happening so it is unlikely that will be the direction it will go in. The home is located on a residential street and there is no place to add a parking lot for tourists that would keep extra cars off the street. It's bad enough as it is especially in the summer with cars lined up to do photo ops.

Their children already have established homes elsewhere (although not in a warmer climate) and know full-well what it's like to be living in a fishbowl from their time growing up in Bangor. They'll still have access to the house but I can't imagine any of them wanting to take up full-time residence there when they can live their lives out of the public eye where they are.
 
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As noted in the article, the Kings want to make sure that their neighbors are not significantly impacted by extra traffic on the street and opening it to the general public would greatly increase the chances of that happening so it is unlikely that will be the direction it will go in. The home is located on a residential street and there is no place to add a parking lot for tourists that would keep extra cars off the street. It's bad enough as it is especially in the summer with cars lined up to do photo ops.

Their children already have established homes elsewhere (although not in a warmer climate) and know full-well what it's like to be living in a fishbowl from their time growing up in Bangor. They'll still have access to the house but I can't imagine any of them wanting to take up full-time residence there when they can live their lives out of the public eye where they are.
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Huh, I didn't know that Stephen doesn't actually stay in the house all that much, I guess that makes sense because it's such a tourist attraction. As for the writers retreat, I hope him and Peter Straub get together again, heck I know Stephen and George R.R. are friends, they should do something. But I suspect Stephen wouldn't be there all that much, it would probably be done in his name! Cool story though!
 
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Huh, I didn't know that Stephen doesn't actually stay in the house all that much, I guess that makes sense because it's such a tourist attraction. As for the writers retreat, I hope him and Peter Straub get together again, heck I know Stephen and George R.R. are friends, they should do something. But I suspect Stephen wouldn't be there all that much, it would probably be done in his name! Cool story though!
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That's right, it's not the intent that he would be leading any of the retreats. The beauty of technology, though, is that writers can collaborate without being in the same spot. Stephen and Peter still plan to do a third book for The Talisman series but getting their writing schedules coordinated to do it has been the problem.
 
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As noted in the article, the Kings want to make sure that their neighbors are not significantly impacted by extra traffic on the street and opening it to the general public would greatly increase the chances of that happening so it is unlikely that will be the direction it will go in. The home is located on a residential street and there is no place to add a parking lot for tourists that would keep extra cars off the street. It's bad enough as it is especially in the summer with cars lined up to do photo ops.

Their children already have established homes elsewhere (although not in a warmer climate) and know full-well what it's like to be living in a fishbowl from their time growing up in Bangor. They'll still have access to the house but I can't imagine any of them wanting to take up full-time residence there when they can live their lives out of the public eye where they are.
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........tell it Ms.M! tell it! :)
 
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That's right, it's not the intent that he would be leading any of the retreats. The beauty of technology, though, is that writers can collaborate without being in the same spot. Stephen and Peter still plan to do a third book for The Talisman series but getting their writing schedules coordinated to do it has been the problem.
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.....keeping that talmasmic endeavour in constant prayers :)
 
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That's right, it's not the intent that he would be leading any of the retreats. The beauty of technology, though, is that writers can collaborate without being in the same spot. Stephen and Peter still plan to do a third book for The Talisman series but getting their writing schedules coordinated to do it has been the problem.
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Peter Straub is such a great novelist, underrated as well. I'm glad he got mainstream recognition through his work with Stephen though. It's been a while since Peter put out a new novel. It would be great for Stephen to start a writing retreat! Can't wait for that third novel, I guess its not going to be for a while though? Mainly because Stephens already started work on a sequel to The Outsider?
 
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Edward John said:
Peter Straub is such a great novelist, underrated as well. I'm glad he got mainstream recognition through his work with Stephen though. It's been a while since Peter put out a new novel. It would be great for Stephen to start a writing retreat! Can't wait for that third novel, I guess its not going to be for a while though? Mainly because Stephens already started work on a sequel to The Outsider?
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That novella is finished now. At the moment, he's busy with the scripts and pre-production for LISEY'S STORY. If he's got another new story in the works, I haven't heard about it yet.
 
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