Archer Milton Huntington

…philanthropist, poet, and arts patron Archer M. Huntington, with whom in 1930 she founded the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, and in 1931 Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina, a sculpture garden and natural preserve where many of her large animal sculptures (e.g., Fighting Stallions, 1950) were installed on permanent…

…an endowment from the author Archer M. Huntington, and the title of poet laureate was created in 1985. Although the British poet laureate is now free of specific poetic duties, the American poet laureate, who is appointed annually, is expected to present one major poetic work and to appear at…