"THIS AND THAT"

BY

MARY ROCKWELL HOOK

MARY ROCKWELL HOOK SIESTA KEY, FLORIDA-MAY 1970 I, IT WAS BURTON ROGERS, HEAD OF THE PINE MOUNTAIN SETfLEMENT I SCHOOl... IN HARLAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHO KEPT ASKING ME, " HAVE I YOU WRITTEN CHAPTER ONE OF YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY?" WRITING IS NO PROBLEM FOR BURTON, A MASTER OF BEAUTIFUL ENGLISH.

THEN KATHLEEN WILSON, WHO ALSO HAS AN ENVIABLE COMMAND OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, PROMPTED BY HER HUSBAND DALE, ONE NIGHT AT DINNER OFFERED ADVICE AND HELP. BOTH KATHLEEN AND DALE HAD GRATITUDE FOR HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT BEEN ON THE STAFF OF THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL BUT NOW LIVE IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA. FROM: DALE AND KAntLEEN WILSON

BURTON ROGERS SAID, "BEGIN WHEN YOU LAID OUT THE PINE MOUN­ BURTON AND MARY ROGERS TAIN SCHOOL IN 1913". MRS. WILSON SAID, "START WHEN YOU DIS­ COVERED FLORIDA IN 1935 AND THEN GO BACK. 11 AND THEY ALL AGREED: ALAN AND JEAN MARY BLACKMAN START WITH A TAPE RECORDER. THIS WAS ALL GOOD ADVICE BUT A PERIOD COVERING NINETY-TWO YEARS IS TOO DIFFICULT TO KEEP IN ORDER, TO EUGENE AND LIBBY HOOK RECITE TO A TAPE RECORDER. I FELT I MUST BEGIN WITH THE EARLIEST

ELEANOR GELLHORN RECORDED HISTORY OF MY PARENTS' FAMILIES AND THIS IS WHAT I HAVE DONE.

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LAST BUT NOT LEAST I SHALL NEVER FORGET MY FIRST LESSON IN ANCESTRY. I WAS A JUNIOR AT WELLESLEY AND MY COUSIN, BILLY CLARK, A JUNIOR AT YALE, INGHRAM D. HooK HAD INVITED ME TO THE YALE JUNIOR PROM. WE WERE TO SPEND WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE NIGHT WITH ntE CHARLES ROCKWELLS IN MERIDAN, CONNECTICUT. ABOUT 4:00A.M. I HAD FALLEN INTO BED MORE DEAD

MARY ROCKWELL HOOK THAN ALIVE. MY AUNT, WHOM I HAD JUST MET, TOOK UP HER POSITION 4940 SUMMIT STREET AT THE FOOT OF MY BED AND BEGAN A DISSERTATION ON THE ROCKWELL KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI GENEALOGY. I KEPT DROPPING OFF TO SLEEP BUT SHE KEPT RiGHT ON, BEGINNING IN NORMANDY IN THE 1 fTH CENTURY, Wlnt RALPH DE AND ROCHEVI LLE. 34 SANDY COVE ROAD SARASOTA, FLORIDA THE ANCESTORS I COULD NOT APPRECIATE TI:IAT NIGHT HAVE SINCE BECOME VERY INTERESTING. THERE IS A PRETTY SUBURB OF THE FRENCH CITY OF CAEN IN NORMANDY CALLED ST. JULIEN, THE TERRI­ MAY 1970 TORY OF WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY DEPENDENT ON THE FIEF OF MONSENAY.

1 • DOWN SO MANY TIMES DURING THE WAR WOULD BE THE DISTRIBUTOR OF THIS PROPERTY BELONGED TO RALPH DE ROCHEVILLE WHO HAD FEUDAL GRAIN TO THE WORLD, RIGHTS AND POWERS SIMILAR TO THE NORMAN KNIGHTS OF ENGLAND. HE WAS ONE OF THE KNIGHTS WHO ACCOMPANIED THE EMPRESS MAUDE THERE WAS A LITTLE TOWN CALLED JUNCTION CITY AT THE Jl(NCTION (MATILDA OF ENGLAND) INTO ENGLAND WHEN SHE CLAIMED THE THRONE OF TWO RIVERS - THE SMOKEY HILL AND THE REPUBLICAN- THAT FORMED OF THAT REALM, SIR RALPH ULTIMATELY JOINED HENRY II OF ENGLAND, THE KANSAS RIVER; THIS FLOWED INTO THE MISSOURI RIVER AND ULTI­ AND HAD A GRANT OF THREE KNIGHT'S FOES OF LAND IN THE COUNTY OF MATELY INTO THE MISSISSIPPI, AFTER LOOKING OVER THE SMALL SETTLE­ YORK, UPON WHICH ESTATE THE ROCKWELLS HAVE CONTINUED TO THE MENT, BERTRAND DECIDED THAT JUNCTION CITY'S REQUIREMENTS WERE PRESENT DAY, JAMES ROCKWELL, EsQ. 1 OF ROCKWELL HALL,BOROUGH­ DEFINITELY THE NECESSITIES OF LIVING, HE BUILT THE B. ROCKWELL BRIDGE, COUNTY OF YORK, BEING THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FAMILY I I; MERCHANDISE AND GRAIN COMPANY. FOR BUILDING SUPPLIES HE HAD TO . IN ENGLAND.; RETURN TO LEAVENWOR11-I. THERE HE BOUGHT LUMBER A WAGON AND 1 HORSES, BY DRIVING, AND WALKING, TO EASE THE LOAD, HE MADE IT THE FIRST OF MY PATERNAL ANCESTORS APPEARED IN CONNECTICUT BACK THE 150 MILES TO JUNCTION CITY, BEFORE HE WAS THROUGH, HE IN 1639. THOMAS HAWLEY ROCKWELL, BORN IN 1776, PLANTED THE WAS HEAD OF A LARGE MERCANTILE COMPANY, A GRAIN ELEVATOR AND · ELMS ALONG THE MAIN STREET IN RIDGEFIELD. HIS SON GEORGE, MY WAS PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF JUNCTION CITY. GRANDFATHER, LEFT CONNECTICUT AND WENT WEST TO WARSAW, ILLINOIS. ONE ROCKWELL LEFT FRANCE, ONE LEFT ENGLAND, AND ONE BEFORE '-ONG A CAPTIVATING YOUNG WOMAN STEPPED INTO THE PICTURE, LEFT CONNECTICUT TO SETTLE IN WARSAW, ILLINOIS. JULIA MARSHALL SNYDER, WHO WAS TO BE MY M011-IER,

WHEN THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT, MY FATHER, BERTRAND ROCKWELL, 1 MY M011-IER S FATHER'S FAMILY CAME TO AMERICA FROM HAMBURG WHO WAS SEVENTEEN AT THE TIME, LIED ABOUT HIS AGE AND JOINED THE AM-MEIN IN GERMANY AND SETTLED IN PHILADELPHIA. MY MOTHER'S NORTHERN ARMY AS A PRIVATE. HE B6CAME A CAPTAIN AND SAVED HIS MOTHER'S FAMILY HAD SETTLED IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA. HER MONEY TO GO TO HARVARD TO STUDY LAW, WHEN HE RETURNED TO WAR­ NAME WAS MARY LOVE SCOTT AND SHE MARRIED GEORGE SNYDER. MY SAW, HE FOUND THAT HIS FATHER'S LUMBER YARD HAD BURNED, AND MOTHER WAS BORN IN PHILADELPHIA ON MAY IT WAS MOTHER'S THAT HIS FA11-IER, A COLONEL, WAS STILL IN SERVICE. HIS MOTHER 5 1 1850. GRANDFATHER, GUSTAVUS HALL SCOTT, WHO STARTED THIS FAMILY WEST j WAS LEFT WITH FIVE CHILDREN TO RAISE, SO BERTRAND TURNED OVER HIS PRECiOU-S- SAVINGS TO HER. THEN, FOLLOWING THE ADVICE OF TO INDIANA IN 1837 WHEN HE LEFT VIRGINIA. HE HAD A BEAUTIFUL ~.,. """""',..~ ~oRACE GREELY, "Go WEsT-, YOUNG MAN," HE HEADED FOR KANSAS. ESTATE NEAR ALEXANDRIA CALLED MULBERRY HILL • . HE WANTED TO FREE 1 HIS SLAVES, DECIDED TO DO SO AND JOIN HIS BR011-IER WHO HAD GONE TO CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, AND BOUGHT A FARM. MY FATHER WENT TO THE VERY FRONTIER OF KANSAS IN 1865, WHERE

THERE WERE STILL INDIANS ,BUFFALOES 1 PRAIRIE DOGS ,AND TUMBLE WEED. AT 11-IAT TIME, RAILROADS HAD NOT YET REACHED THIS TERRI­ IN PREPARATION FOR THE JOURNEY WEST HE HAD THE SILVER BUCKLES TORY • . THE ARMY HAD COME TO FT. LEAVENWORTH, FT. RILEY AND FT. ON THE HARNESS PAINTED BLACK TO AVOID THEFT ON THE TRIP AND TOOK HARKER. ONLY A FEW SLAVES TO MANAGE THE HORSES, PART OF THE JOURNEY WAS BY BOAT ON THE OHIO RIVER,

ALL PIONEERING STARTS W111-l 11-IE NECESSITIES OF LIFE. THERE MUST. BE FOOD AND CLOTHING, WHEAT AND CURRENCY. SO THIS YOUNG IT MUST HAVE BEEN ABOUT 1855 WHEN MY M011-IER'S PARENTS, RETIRED CAPTAIN STARTED IN AND ESTABLISHED ALL THREE. GEORGE AND MARY SNYDER, LEFT PHILADELPHIA AND SETTLED IN CRAW­ FORDSVILLE, INDIANA., THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF CRAWFORDSVILLE HAD

HE HAD FIGURED OUT 11-IAT KANSAS WOULD BE THE GRAIN BASKET OF NO ORGAN AND GEORGE SNYDER WAS USED TO TRAINING CHOIRS AND PLAY­ THE WORLD; THAT 11-IE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WHICH HE HAD BEEN UP AND ING THE ORGAN, CONSEQUENTLY, ON SATURDAYS HE WOULD PUT HIS 3. 2. MELODIAN IN HIS WHEELBARROW AND WHEEL IT TO THE CHURCH, BRING­ JULIA'S PARENTS LATER CAME WEST AND SETTLED AT CHAPMAN CREEK, ING IT BACK ON MONDAYS THE SAME WAY. HIS MELODIAN AND MUSIC FOR KANSAS. THIS WAS A 12 MILE DRIVE FROM JUNCTION CITY WHICH APPAR­ THE CHOIR - BEAUTIFULLY INSCRIBED ON A BEDSHEET BY HIM, WITH ENTLY WAS NOT TOO FAR FOR BERTRAND ROCKWELL TO DRIVE TO COURT EVERY~ LINE STRAIGHT AND EVERY NOTE PERFECT- ARE NOW IN THE A CHARMING YOUNG LADY, THIS HISTORY, ALSO, IS TOLD IN MY ,MOTHER'S MUSEUM AT FT. RILEY, KANSAS, I THINK THE NAME "SHEET OF MUSIC" LIFE STORY WHICH SHE WROTE AT 97 AND WHICH WAS REPRINTED BY THE MUST HAVE DEVELOPED FROM INSCRIBING MUSIC IN THIS MANNER UPON JUNCTION CITY UNION ON THE tOOTH ANNIVERSARY OF niE STATE OF BEDSHEETS. KANSAS, JANUARY 3 1 , 1 961 ,

WHEN FT.RILEY WAS STARTED, AN UNCLE OF MY MOTHER, DAVID IT WAS HERE IN JUNCTION CITY THAT JULIA AND BERTRAND WERE SCOTT, HAD BECOME QUARTERMASTER FOR THE ARMY. HE HAD BUILT A MARRIED AND IT WAS HERE THAT FIVE DAUGHTERS WERE BORN TO THEM­ LARGE STONE HOUSE ON A HILL, WHICH WAS CALLED OGDEN. JULIA'S FLORENCE, BERTHA, MARY, KATHERINE AND EMILY, WHENEVER ANOTHER SISTER, ANNA, HAD ALREADY COME OUT TO VISIT IN THIS HOUSE WHICH CHILD WAS BORN, A ROOM WAS ADDED TO THE ONE-STORY HOUSE, MOTHER BECAME THE CENTER OF SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. THE LIVING ROOM WAS ALWAYS INSISTED THAT WE WERE "FIVE PERFECT DAUGHTERS"; LATER ON ALWAYS FILLED WITH MUSIC AND APPARENTLY THE BASEMENT WITH THIS PHRASE NEVER FAILED TO BRING LOUD LAUGHTER FROM OUR FIVE CHAMPAGNE. AUNT ANNA HAD THE SINGING VOICE OF A BIRD, AND GOLDEN PERFECT HUSBANDS,

HAIR IN BRAIDS TO HER KNEES. SHE MARRIED DR, WILLIAM FINLAW 1 AN ARMY SURGEON, AND LATER MOVED TO SANTA ROSA, CALl.FORNI A. LIFE WAS SIMPLE IN JUNCTION CITY. FOR WATER, A WINDMILL HAD BEEN BUILT• INTO THE HOUSE, FOR MILK, THE FAT, GOOD NATURED MILK­

SOON IT WAS JuLIA'S TURN TO COME OUT FROM CRAWFORDSVILLE 1 MAN DROVE TO THE ALLEY ENTRANCE AND RANG A BIG HAND BELL. THE INDIANA,TO VISIT HER UNCLE AND TO FILL THE PLACE WITH MERRIMENT. COOK TOOK OUT A MILK PAN TO BE FILLED, INSTEAD OF A GATE THERE SHE AND THE YOUNG OFFICERS WOULD RACE THE DAILY UNION PACIFIC WAS A STILE, TWO BIG STEPS U-P AND TWO DOWN, AS MY NAME WAS TRAINS ON HORSEBACK. AN INTERESTING INCIDENT SHE RECOUNTED IN MARY, OUR GENIAL MILKMAN THOUGHT I SHOULD HAVE A LITTLE LAMB • HER LIFE'S STORY WAS AN OBSERVATION TRIP AND BUFFALO HUNT WHICH THIS TINY BUNDLE WAS IRRESISTABLE, MOTHER HAD TO FEED IT WITH A THE DIRECTORS OF AN EASTERN RAILROAD (LATER TO BECOME THE UNION BABY BOTTLE AND Nl PPLE. SOON EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT, THE PACIFIC) HAD PLANNED. SHE WAS INVITED TO JOIN THE EXCURSION WHEN LAMB WAS SURE TO GO, To GET OVER THE STILE, WHICH TOOK THE PLACE

THE TRAIN STOPPED AT CHAPMAN CREEK. THE TRAIN STOPPED FOR THE OF A GATE, WAS QUITE AN EFFORT. WE HAD TO GO OVER TWO STILES t

NIGHT AT ELLSWORTH,KANSAS 1 AS WEST OF THIS POINT, TRAINS DID NOT OURS AND GRANDMOTHER'S, AND ACROSS AN ALLEY TO GET TO MY GRAND­ RUN AT NIGHT FOR FEAR OF INDIANS, NEAR OGALLAH, KANSASJA HERD PARENTS, THEY WERE GEORGE AND KATHERINE COLE ROCKWELL, OF BUFFALOES WAS SEEN, AND AS THE TRAIN APPROACHED, THE BUFFALOES STARTED TO RUN ALONG BESIDI: IT. THE TRAIN SLOWED TO THEIR PACE IN THEIR YARD, THERE WAS A HUGE ROUND ROSE GARDEN. THIS WAS ·AND FROM THE WINDOWS SPRINGFIELD MUSKETS BARKED. IN A FEW GRANDFATHER'S SPECIAL DELIGHT. I CAN SEE HIM NOW: A VERY TALL, MINUTES, THEY HAD BAGGED 3 BUFFALOES. ON THE RETURN TRIP, MOTHER DISTINGUISHED FIGURE. HE WOULD TAKE OUT HIS PEN KNIFE, CAREFULLY LEFT THE TRAfN AT SALINA. IT WAS MOST FORTUNATE FOR HER, AS NEAR SELECT AND CUT ONE ROSE, AND PRESENT IT TO YOU WITH COURTLY

LAWRENCE A BRIDGE .GAVE WAY; TWO OF THE CREW WERE KILLED AND _APLOMB. SOME OF THE GUESTS WERE INJURED. THIS EVENT OCCURRED OVER 100 YEARS AGO- IN JULY 1869. AMONG OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, JULIA FOR CHRISTMAS AND BIRTHDAYS, EACH CHILD RECEIVED A BRIGHT NEW

LEARNED TO DRIVE THE ARMY AIIIBULANCE WITH FOI:IR GALLOPING WHITE SILVER DOLLAR FROM HIM, MULES DOWN THE HILL TO MEET THE TRAIN WHEN THE WHISTLE SOUNDED. THE BROTHER .OF THE FAMOUS GENERAL GEORGE CUSTER, TOM CUSTER, AS CHILDREN, WE HAD THE STRICKLAND ~OYS NEXT DOOR, WE MUST 1 WAS ONE OF JULI S EARLY _SUITORS, HAVE SEEN A RINGLING CIRCUS BECAUSE WE HAD TIGHT-ROPES FROM TREE

4. 5. TO TREE AND PERFORMED ALL KINOS OF ATHLETIC FEATS • LATER, WE WAS THEN 18 MONTHS OLD. THAT MUST HAVE BEEN MARCH 1 879 AS I WAS ~ADE A GRASS TENNIS COURT WHICH WE MARKED OUT OU~SELVES AFTER EVERY RAIN. BORN ON SEPTEMBER 8, 1877. LATER, I CAN REMEMBER IT TOOK FIVE DAYS TO GO TO CALIFORNIA FROM KANSAS BY TRAIN. I ESPECIALLY RE­ MEMBER THE BIG LUNCH BASKET OF COLD CHICKEN, FRUIT, 'AND B!JTTER 'BEFORE THERE w ·ERE TELEPHONES, SOME INVENTIVE MEMBER oF AND BREAD WHICH WAS PRETTY STALE BY THE Tl ME WE REACHED OUR THE FAMILY ~RECTED A CORD BETWEEN OUR HOUSE AND THE GRANDPARENTS', DESTINATION. AT SOME LONG STOPS THE PORTER WOULD, BUY MILK FOR US, A TIN CAN WAS ATTACHED AT EACH END FOR RECEIVERS AND THIS CON­ QUITE A Dl FFERENCE FROM THE COMFORTABLE THREE HOUR JET FLIGHTS TRIVANCE WORKED FAIRLY WELL. COMPLETE WITH COCKTAILS AND DINNER WHICH- WE ARE ACCUSTOMED TO NOW. FOR QUAIL. HUNTS, FATHER DROVE US ALL O~ER THE NEARBY HILLS IN OUR SURREY WITH TWO HORSES, HE SHOT THE QUAIL AND MOTHER PLUCKED THEM WHILE STILL WARM WHEN THE FEATHERS CAME OUT WHEN I WAS 13, MY FATHER'S HEALTH HAD BROKEN AND WE TOOK A EASILY. NO ONE HAS EVER BROILED QUAIL As WELL AS MOTHER. HOUSE IN SANTA ROSA,CALIFORNIA,SO THAT HE COULD HAVE TREATMENTS WITH DR. FINLAW.I REMEMBER PARTICULARLY WALKING TO SCHOOL IN

As FATHER woULD NEVER RETURN BY THE SAME ROUTE, wE WERE THE LONG SEASONAL RAIN. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN WERE THE BIG ,BLACK ALWAYS GETTING TO SOME UNEXPECTED STREAM THAT COULDN'T BE CHERRIES AND LUSCIOUS RIPE FIGS IN MY AUNT'S YARD;ALSO THE BUNCH CROSSED. I BELIEVE I MUST HAVE INHERITED THIS STRONG DISLIKE OF OF BANANAS WHICH ALWAYS HUNG IN HER BASEMENT. REPETITION. AFTER CALl FORNI A, THE WHOLE FAMI LV WENT TO WELLESLEY, MASS­

THE CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. A VERY BEAUTIFUL Ll TTLE ACHUSETTS TO SPEND A YEAR WHILE FATHER WAS ILL. HE FELT HIS DAUGHTERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AND IN WHICH MY PARENTS HAD BEEN THE FIRST SHOULD BE EDUCATED IN THE E~ST,SINCE WE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN KANSAS. COUPLE TO BE MARRIED) CLAIMED MUCH OF MY MOTHER's TIME. To THIS THIS LED TO FLORENCE'S STUDY IN MUSIC AT THE CONSERVATORY IN BOSTON. CHURCH CAME ROBERT NELSON SPENCER, JUST BEFORE HE WAS ORDAINED BERTHA STUDIED ART AT WELLESLEY AND IN BOSTON, "AND LATER EMILY AS AN EPISCOPAL MINISTER. HE BECAME A CLOSE, LIFELONG FRIEND. WENT TO VASSAR. KITTY AND I WENT TO DANA HALL. HE WAS LATER TO BECOME DEAN OF THE GRACE AND HOLY TRINITY REMEMBER WITH AFFECTION THE TWO NEW ENGLAND GENTLEWOMEN, CATHEDRAL OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, AND EVENTUALLY, BISHOP OF I THE DIOCESE,OF WEST MISSOURI. MISS JULIA AND MISS SARAH ~ASTMAN 1 WHO WERE THE HEADMISTRESSES OF DANA HALL. AT THE REGULAR MORNING ASSEMBLIES, MISS JuLIA

A GROUP OF MOTHER'S FRIENDS FORMED "THE LADIES READING GAVE LECTURES ON POETRY, TABLE MANNERS AND THE CORRECT FORM FOR CLUB". FOR THEIR ENCOURAGEMENT MY FATHER HAD BUILT FOR THEM A WRITING LETTERS. ONE ENTIRE MORNING EACH WEEK WAS DEVOTED TO CLUB HOUSE OF NATIVE KANSAS STONE. THIS CLUB IS STILL VERY ACTIVE. LEARNING POETRY.

AFTER FOUR YEARS AT DANA HALL, I WENT TO WELLESLEY COLLEGE MY MOTHER WAS A PHILOSOPHER ,AN INTERESTING CONVERSATION­ ALl ST,A PSYCHOLOGIST ABLE TO ADJUST TO ROUGH LIFE I~ THE' UNSETTLED FROM .WHICH I GRADUATED IN 1900. AT WELLESLEY I WAS ALWAYS INTER­ WEST,AND A GREAT READER. SHE WAS ALSO A GREAT TRAVELER. WHEN I ESTED IN ITS VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS. I WAS PRESIDENT OF MY FRESH­ MAN CLASS, AND ORGAN I ZED THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, AND PUT ON WAS VERY YOUNG I REMEMBER MY MOTHER SAVING, "I THINK THAT YOUR I THE FIRST FIELD DAY. WAS CONCERNED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO FATHER AND I HAVE BEEN IN ALL THE STATES IN THE UNION NOW EXCEPT I

. ONE-NORTH DAKOTA 11 • FACUL TV REPRESENTATION ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SO I WROTE A LETTER TO THE BOARD, ASKING THAT THEY SELECT A FACULTY REPRESEN­

MY FIRST LESSON IN GEOGRAPHY WAS A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. TATIVE. THEY AGREED TO THIS, AND JUST RECENTLY, IN SPEAKING TO MRS. JAMES KEMPER, JR., NOW A MEMBER OF THE WELLESLEY BOARD 6, ! ' 7. '1

BACK IN JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF MASSA­ OF TRUSTEES, I LEARNED THAT THE FACULTV IS STILL REPRESENTED BY CHUSETTS, LIFE DID SEEM A BIT DULL. TWO OR THREE BLOCKS FROM ONE MEMBER ON THE BOARD. HOME THERE WAS A LITTLE CARPENTER SHOP OWNED AND OPERATED BY A I VERY AMIABLE DANE. WE NAMED HIM BENVENUTO CELLINI AND ,CALLED DURING THE FAMILY'S STAY IN MASSACHUSETTS, FATHER WENT HIM BEN. BERTHA AND i ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD GIVE US LESSONS IN ·- I TO EUROPE TO CONSULT A GERMAN DOCTOR. WHILE HE WAs THERE HE . FURNITURE MAKING. BY THE NEXT DAY, HE HAD CUT OUT A NEW WINDOW DISCOVERED PARIS AND CAME BACK LOOKING LIKE A FRENCHMAN, COM­ IN ONE SIDE OF HIS SHOP, CLEANED OFF A WORKBENCH, AND WAS READY PLETE WITH GOATEE AND IN FRENCHCUT CLOTHES, MUCH TO MOTHERiS FOR US TO GO TO WORK • HE HAD A HUGE SUPPLY OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS ASTONISHMENT. WHICH HAD BEEN SEASONING FOR YEARS, WHICH HE ALLOWED US TO USE.

FATHER'S ENTHUSIASM FOR EUROPE WAS THE REASON FOR MANY BERTHA BEGAN ON A WALNUT BENCH WHICH SHE LATER CARVED. THIS TRIPS ABROAD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY. 1 RECALL AN AMUSING INCIDENT BENCH IS NOW IN THE FRONT HALL OF EMILY CAMERON'S HOME. I CUT A WHICH OCCURRED ON ONE OF THESE TRIPS WHEN EMILY WAS ABOUT FIVE BIG WALNUT LOG TO MAKE A PEDESTAL FOR A WHITE MARBLE STATUE, A YEARS OLD. DURING A TRIP TO FRANCE, ONE DAY ON DECK HER CAP COPY OF 00NATELL0 1S"BOY1WHICH FATHER HAD BOUGHT IN FLORENCE - BLEW OVERBOARD. A NICE GENTLEMAN SAID: "DON'T CRY.' I'LL KNIT . PROBABLY BECAUSE OF HIS DISAPPOINTMENT IN NEVER HAVING A SON. YOU ANOTHER CAP~ " AND HE Dl D I THIS STATUE STILL SITS ON THE WALNUT PEDESTAL IN OUR LIVING ROOM.

WITH HER NEW LITTLE CAP ON HER HEAD, SHE WENT WITH US TO WHILE WE WERE MAKING FURNITURE, BERTHA AND I DECIDED TO MAKE SEE PICTURES AT THE LOUVRE. To KEEP HER BUSY, ' MOTHER GAVE HER USE OF A BIG SQUARE STONE HOUSE ON A FARM FATHER OWNED OUTSIDE OF A PENCIL AND. PAPER • SHE BEGAN WRITING DOWN THE NAMES OF THE JUNCTION CITY. TENANTS LIVED ON THE SECOND FLOOR. OUR PARENTS \ PAiNTERS. SHE SOON HAD A CROWD AROUND HER. ONE MAN ASKED HER SAID WE COULD USE THE FIRST FLOOR FOR THE SUMMER. WF:. FURNISHED WHERE SHE WAS FROM. "I'M FROM KANSAS," SHE SAID, 11 AND KANSAS OUR ROOMS AND WE ALSO GOT THE LOAN OF BABE, THE FAMILY'S BLACK IS 200 MILES WIDE AND 400 MILES LONG·, AND REAcHES TO THE STARS". HORSE. BABE WAS ONE OF THE FAMILY. , WE HAD ALWAYS KNOWN I-lOW TO THEN SHE RAISED HER HANDS OVER HER HEAD, AND POINTED TO THE CARE FOR HORSES BUT NOW WE LEARNED HOW TO HARNESS AND UNHARNESS STARS. SHE STOLE THE SHOW FROM THE MONA LISA. THEM. FATHER ALSO LET US HAVE HIS SHOT GUN.

MY FATHER'S INTEREST IN ITALIAN FURNITURE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MANY LOVELY THINGS WE ALL HAVE IN OUR HOMES,NOW.HE BOUGHT CARVED CHAIRS,CHESTS,MIRRORS,MARBLE STATUARY,CHINA, AND THE BRONZE FOUNTAIN IN THE GARDEN AT 5011 SUNSET DRIVE IN KANSAS C lTV. BY 1902 THE BOXER REBELLION IN CHINA WAS OVER. MY UNCLE, .GENERAL ADNA R. CHAFFEE, HAD COMMANDED THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN THEN THERE WERE SUMMERS IN NANTUCKET WHERE WE ALL LEARNED CHINA. THE UNITED STATES HAD TAKEN THE PHILIPPINES. PRESIDENT TO SWIM AND EAT CLAMS. AFTER SWIMMING WE WOULD WASH OUR LONG THEODORE ROOSEVELT HAD ASSIGNED GENERAL CHAFFEE TO BE MILITARY HAIR UNDER THE PUMP, THEN SIT OUTDOORS IN THE SUN TO LET IT DRY . ' GOVERNOR OF THE PHI Ll PPI NES. AND OPEN AND EAT RAW CLAMS OUT OF THE SHELl. 1 ADDING SALT AND LEMON. I ALSO REMEMBER FISHING TRIPS TO AN ISLAND IN CANADA. IT WHEN THE CHAFFEES WERE SETTLED INTO A BIG; OLD SPANISH HOUSE WAS TOO FAR TO GO HOME FROM WELLESLEY FOR SHOR'+ VACATIONS. so ON THE SEA IN MANILA, MRS. CHAFFEE, MY FATHER'S SISTER, DECIDED CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA~ NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THAT SHE WANTED HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER HELEN, WHO WAS ATTENDING VERMONT BECAME FAMILIAR TO ME DURING MY SCHOOL YEARS. SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES, TO COME AND SPEND THE SUMMER WITH THEM. 9. 8. AROUND THE BALLROOM, THEIR PARTY DRESSES WERE MADE OF THE NATIVE.

So GENERAL CHAFFEE SENT A LETTER TO THEIR RELATIVES IN THE HUSSIE CLOTH, A STIFF MATERIAL. EACH LONG 1 FLAT TRAIN WAS SPREAD UNITED STATES INVITING ANYONE WHO COULD MAKE THE TRIP TO APPLY OUT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE WEARER MAKING A GREAT CIRCLE OF LILY FOR ARMY TRANSPORTATION ON THE TRANSPORT "SHERIDAN", THE COST PADS. WOULD BE $1.25 A DAY AND THE TRIP WOULD TAKE ABOUT THIRTY DAYS ACROSS THE PACIFIC, THESE WOMEN, IN THE PURE SPANISH TRADITION OF THE Fl\iE 0 11 CLOCK "PASSEAR", DROVE OUT DAILY IN THEIR OPEN VICTORIAS• WITH TWO WHITE OUR FAMILY OF SEVEN WERE LAST ON THE LIST BECAUSE WE HAD TINY HORSES AND A DRIVER AND A FOOTMAN, ALONG THE LUNETA, A BOUL­ JUST RETURNED FROM EIGHT MONTHS IN ITALY AND SWITZERLAND. EVERY EVARD BY THE SEA. THE AMERICAN ARMY HAD ADDED ITS BAND FOR THIS OTHER RELATIVE DECLINED THE TRIP TO MANILA, MY FATHER THEN IMPORTANT DAILY AIRING, CABLED THE GENERAL THAT SOME OF US WOULD BRING HELEN, FATHER FINALLY PERSUADED FLORENCE AND ME TO GO WITH HIM AND TO START I JOINED THE OFFICERS AND WIVES WHO DID THIS "PASSEAR" ON HORSE­ HUNTING FOR WHJTE .SHOES AND COTTON CLOTHING. WE COULD TAKE NO BACK ON THE BEACH. No SENSATION WILL EVER EQUAL GALLOPING ON A LEATHER, SILK OR VELVET BECAUSE OF THE MILDEW. HARD BEACH TO MUSIC IN THE TROPICS AT SUNSET,

WE SAILED FROM SAN FRANCISCO ON A COURSE WHERE NO OTHER A GREAT EXPERIENCE WAS IN STORE FOR US, GENERAL CHAFFEE AND BOATS WENT, WITH ONE TURBINE ENGINE AND NO WIRELESS, OUR ARMY HIS STAFF MADE REGULAR INSPECTION TRIPS TO THE MANY ISLANDS OF THE TRANSPORTS LED CHARMED LIVES, OUR ONE STOP WAS GUAM WHICH WAS PHILIPPINE GROUP. WE WERE INVITED TO GO, AT EVERY STOP OF OUR J, THEN A TROPICAL PARADISE. TRANSPORTS STOPPED THERE ONCE A MONTH SMALL BOAT, THE NATIVES BROUGHT GIFTS FOR THE GENERAL'S FAMILY: GOING WEST, WE TOOK THEIR MAIL FOR THE STATES TO MANILA, SPEARS MACHETTES HATS, HANDMADE PRODUCTS OF MANY SORTS, 'T,HESE . - 1 1 WE LATER GAVE TO THE KANSAS CITY MUSEUM, WE WENT AS FAR SOUTH ON THE SHIP, WE HAD NO COMMUNICATION WITH THE OUTSIDE AS SULU, ALMOST TO INDONESIA'S NORTH BORNEO. WORLD SO WE ALL JOINED IN PUBL-ISHING A DAILY NEWSPAPER BULLETIN WHICH CONCERNED ITSELF LARGELY WITH THE GAIETIES OF ARMY LIFE MY FATHER WANTED TO VISIT JAPAN AND CHINA SO HE TOOK US OVER ABOARD. IT WAS GAY AND FOR THIRTY _DAYS WE HAD REALLY BEEN "OUT AND BACK ON A JAPANESE STEAMER. ON OUR RETURN TRIP TO THE .PHILI­

OF THIS WORLD." FINALLY, MANILA BAY LOOMED BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL, PPINES, OUR SHIP WAS OVERTAKEN BY A REAL TYPHOON 1 BATTERED AND BEATEN FOR FOUR DAYS AND NIGHTS WITH NO MEANS OF FIGURING OUR THE CHAFFEE HOUSE,RIGHT ON THE SEA, HAD A VERY TROPICAL LOCATION, No ONE WAS ALLOWED OUT OF HIS BUNK. FEELING. THE FIRST FLOOR WAS OFFICIAL ARMY HEADQUARTERS, FOUR , YOUNG AIDES LIVED THERE WITH THE CHINESE SERVANTS WHO WERE WE WERE FORTUNATE INDEED TO GET BACK TO THE ISLANDS. THE NEWS IMPORTED UNDER BOND FROM CHINA. THE FAMILY LIVING QUARTERS WERE THERE WAS THAT PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT HAD SENT OVER THE ON THE SECOND FLOOR. THE BEDROOMS HA~ NO WiNDOWS BUT OPENED SMALLEST TRANSPORT, THE MCCLELLAND,TO TAKE GENERAL CHAFFEE AND WITH SLJ OJ NG GLASS DOORS ONTO A WI DE BALCONY WHICH SURROUNDED HIS STAFF BACK TO THE STATES VIA SUEZ. THE WHOLE HOUSE, ON THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE WAS . A LARGE OUTDOOR

LIVING ROOM OVERLOOKING THE SEA FRONT. IN THIS HOUSE I HAD MY HOWEVER, AT THIS POINT, MY AUNT, MRS, CHAFFEE, BECAME VERY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH THEIR OFT-REPEATED,NEVER-ENDING SCOTCH ILL AND THE DOCTOR INSISTED THAT SHE MUST BE TAKEN AT ONCE TO SAN AND SODA, FRANCISCO, THE ARMY TRANSPORT SHERMAN WAS READY TO SAIL. THE GENERAL, THE DOCTOR, MY FATHER AND SISTER FLORENCE (WHO HAD BE- WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT HAD JUST SETTLED IN MANILA TO BE THE COME ENGAGED TO JIM EDWARDS IN SANTA ROSA JUST BEFORE WE HAD FIRST CIVIL GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES, HE INVITED US TO A GREAT SAILED TO THE PHILIPPINES) WENT WITH HER. FLORENCE WAS TAKING HER DINNER AND BALL. MANY FILIPINOS WERE INVITED TO THE BALL. IT EMBROIDERED WHITE SATIN WEDDING DRESS ALONG WHICH SHE HAD HAD MADE IN JAPAN.

1 0 •. 1 1 0 GENERAL ·CHAFFEE HAD ARRANGED FOR HIS FOUR AIDES ,HIS DAUGHTER THE CAPTAIN LET ME HAVE A CARPENTER AND WE MADE THE SHIP'S HELEN,AND MYSELF TO SAIL ON THE "MCCLELLAND" BOUND FOR NEW YORK HOSPITAL INTO A LIBRARY AND CARD ROOM. WHEN WE ENTERED THE RED

VIA THE 'SUEZ,ALONG WITH ABOUT THIRTY CAREFULLY SELECTED PASSENGERS. SEA AND SUEZ 1 WE MOVED THE PIANO ONTO THE TOP DECK AND HAD SOME THERE WERE SOME RETURNING OFFICERS AND WIVES, V.I. P'S FROM REAL CONCERTS WITH OUR PROFESSIONAL SINGER. WASHINGTON,AN OPERA SINGER AND MY FRIEND,MARJORIE IDE,WHOSE .FATHER HAD JUST BEEN MADE AMBASSADOR TO SPAIN;ALSO QUITE ·A WE LOVED OUR LITTLE SHIP. BUT WHEN WE REACH£D THE MIGHTY COLf.... ECTION OF YOUNG LIEUTENANTS. ATLANTIC WE SAW THAT THE NOVEMBER WAVES HAD NO CONSIDERATION FOR IT. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN THEY DASHED COMPLETELY OVER . US. IF WE SAILED OCTOBER FIRST AND ARRIVED IN NEW YORK DECEMBER t, ONE ATTEMPTED TO WALK ON DECK, ONE HAD TO HOLD TIGHT TO THE INSIDE 1902. ALL THAT TIME WE WERE WITHOUT COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE RAIL. STATES. NEW YORK WAS A WELCOME SIGHT, ALBEIT WE WERE ALL SHIVERING AT THE RAFFLES HOTEL IN SINGAPORE, WE WERE TOLD THAT A DINNER IN TROPICAL OUTFITS. AND "BAILE" HAD BEEN PLANNED FOR GENERAL CHAFFEE AND HIS WIFE AND STAFF IN THE GREAT OPEN-AIR DINING ROOM. NOT KNOWING OF THE GENERAL16 CHANGE IN PLAN, THE PARTY PROCEEDED AS SCHEDULED. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THIS PARTY FOR ME WAS THAT THE MAHARAJA OF JAPORE ASKED ME FOR A DANCE, EXPLAINING THAT HE HAD NOT LEARNED THE AMERICAN TWO STEP SO WE WOULD SIT IT OUT. HE wAs JUST BACK FROM PARIS WHERE HE HAD HAD HIS TWO FRONT TEETH SET IN DIAMONDS. HE WAS YOUNG, TALL AND IT WAS DURING THIS TRIP HOME FROM THE PHILIPPINES THAT I DE­ HANDSOME AND THE DIAMONDS REALLY WENT WELL WITH THE PURPLE CIDED SOMEONE NEEDED TO IMPROVE THE DESIGN OF BUILDINGS USED BY VELVET COLLAR OF HIS TUXEDO. HE INVITED US ALL TO HIS PALACE IN OUR GOVERNMENT ABROAD. I MADE UP MY MIND TO GO HOME AND STUDY JAPORE FOR TEA THE NEXT DAY. EVERY DAY WAS FILLED WITH INTEREST- ARCHITECTURE. ING ENTERTAINMENT AND EXCURSIONS. FOR THE TWO. OR THREE' DAYS WE

WERE THERE 1 MARJORIE IDE AND I WERE SHOWN ABOUT SINGAPORE BY A THE NEXT YEAR FOUND BERTHA AND ME IN CHICAGO. SHE WAS STUDY­ DASHING YOUNG ENGLISHMAN, IAN MONTGOMERY, AND JOSEPH GREW WHO ING PAINTING AND I ENTERED THE ARCHITECTURAL DEPARTMENT OF THE ART LATER WAS AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN. INSTITUTE. I WAS THE ONLY GIRL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.

OUR NEXT STOP WAS CoLOMBO,CAPITAL OF THE ISLAND OF CEYLON. WHILE BERTHA AND I WERE FINISHING OUR YEAR 1S STUDY IN CHICAGO, AT SOME POINT,I RODE A RICKSHAW ON A SEASHORE OF PERFECTLY WHITE WE WERE STAVING WITH THE PATTERSON FAMILY WHOSE DAUGHTER MAR­ SAND. THE MEMORY OF THIS SAND YEARS LATER CAUSED ME TO ACQUIRE GUARITE WANTED A TEACHING POSITION. I SUGGESTED THAT I WRITE A .BEAUTIFUL BEACH PROPERTY ON SIESTA -KEY IN FLORIDA. FRIEND, SUSAN HUNTINGTON, WHO WAS DEAN OF WOMEN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO, TO FIND OUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF A POSITION THERE ONE EARLY MORNING WE ANCHORED IN ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FOR MARGUARITE. I ADDED A POSTSCRIPT TO THE LETTER SAVING " FIND HARBORS OF THE WORLD,MALTA.THE MILITARY ENGLISH THERE ENTER­ ME A JOB, TOO." SUSAN REPLIED THAT THERE WERE MANY OPENINGS IN TAl NED US ROYALLV. PUERTO RICO.

OUR SHIP'S CAPTAIN WAS BIG, FAT AND JOLLY. I HAVE THE SHIP'S LOG MOTHER AND FATHER WERE IN CALIFORNIA AT THIS TIME, SO I WIRED HE KEPT FOR ME EVERY DAY OF OUR TRIP. HE LET ME SPEND HOURS AT THE FATHER 1 TELLING HIM WHAT WE WERE PLANNING TO DO. FATHER WAS WHEEL AND TRIED TO TEACH ME SOMETHING OF NAVIGATION AND THE STARS. HORRIFIED THAT WE WANTED TO GO TO THIS FAR OFF PLACE, BUT HE WIRED AT 4 A.M. I COULD GO UP ON THE BRIDGE AND HAVE A ROYAL BREAKFAST BACK: "IF THROUGH WITH ARCHITECTURE, GO. BUT NEVER AGAIN TO WITH THE OFFICER ON DUTY-BEEF STEAK AND FRIED POTATOES. PUERTO RICO." 13. 1.2. SIRACUSA, THERE WAS A COUPLE NEARBY. THE MAN WAS PAINTING. LATER WHEN ALMA SEIPP, A FRIEND IN CHICAGO, HEARD ABOUT OUR PRO­ WE LEARNED THAT HE SAID TO HIS WIFE. "TINI, THOU GOEST ASK THOSE POSED TRIP SHE WANTED TO GO, TOO. So EVENTUALLY FOUR OF US: GIRLS IF THEY HAVE A SPARE PAINT RAG," TINI SAID, "PHINEAS,THOU GO MARGUERITE, BERTHA, ALMA AND I LEFT CHICAGO FOR NEW YORK WHERE THYSELF." THIS ENDED, OF COURSE, IN THE OBEDIENT WIFE COMING OVER WE WERE TO TAKE A SHIP TO PUERTO RICO, ALMA FULLY EQUIPPED WITH AND THERE BEGAN A LIFELONG FRiENDSHIP! PHINEAS !-fAD GRADUATED IN A MINB OF INFORMATION ON THIS LAND. ARCHITECTURE AND WON A YEAR OF STUDY ABROAD. WE WERE LATER NEIGH­ BORS IN PARIS ON THE LEFT BANK.

WHEN WE ARRIVED IN PUERTO RICO, BERTHA AND ALMA WENT TO PONCE, WHERE BERTHA SPENT ALL HER TIME PAINTING AND ALMA PHINEAS PAIST DESIGNED THE BELLEVUE HOTEL IN PHILADELPHIA, TAUGHT ENGLISH IN THE GRADE SCHOOLS. THE ENGLISH TEACHER IN THE LATER MADE THE PLANS FOR CORAL GABLES NEAR MIAMI AND DESIGNED A SCHOOL AT HATILLO HAD LEFT JUST THREE WEEKS BEFORE THE END OF GREAT MANY OF THE PUBLIC BUILDING AND HOUSES THERE, THE TERM AND I WAS ASKED TO TAKE HIS PLACE. THERE WERE NO LIVING QUARTERS AVAILABLE FOR ME IN HATILLO SO I HAD TO LIVE IN CAMUEY WHEN HIS WIFE STARTED THE FIRST MONTESSORI SCHOOL IN PHIL­ AND TRAVEL BACK AND FORTH BY HORSEBACK. FOR A WHILE I HAD TO SHARE ADELPHIA, THEN TRANSFERRED IT TO A FARM IN BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYL­ A ROOM WITH THE LOCAL POSTMISTRESS BUT I FINALLY GOT A ROOM ALONE, VANIA, SHE ASKED THE HELP OF HER HUSBAND IN MAKING OVER THE BUILD­ OVER A SALOON. ING, HE SAID, "TINI, I KNOW NOTHING OF THAT, ASK MARY. SHE CAN DO IT • 11 So I MADE OVER THE BARN INTO CLASSROOMS FOR THE VERY YOUNG.

AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL TERM SUSAN SUGGESTED A TRIP TO BUT I WA~ SEVERELY CRITICIZED BY THE NEIGHBORS IN BUCKS COUNTY CARACAS. SHE HAD FRIENDS LIVING THERE,AND WE WERE FORTUNATE TO WHEN I HAD THE BEAUTIFULLY LAID STONE FLOOR OF THE BASEMENT OF THE HOUSE BROUGHT UP TO THE GARDEN AND MADE INTO A TERRACE FOR HA\fE THE PLEASURE _OF SEEING THEM IN THEIR HACIENDA WHICH WAS OUTDOOR DINING, THIS WAS HERESY. TYPICAL OF THE COUNTRY. WE COULDN'T ACCEPT THE INVITATIONS TO SOME OF THE SOCIAL AFFAIRS AS WE HADN'T TAKEN ANY PARTY CLOTHES WITH US. DURING HER SCHOOL YEARS IN FRANCE,MY SISTER KITTY SPENT HER SUMMERS NEAR DIEPPE WITH MADAME REV AND HER HUSBAND. MADAME REV HAD TAUGHT MUSIC AT THE WHITE SCHOOL IN PARIS, NEAR THE REVS LIVED THE AUBURTIN FAMILY. MARCEL AUBURTIN HAD JUST GRADUATED SECOND IN HIS CLASS AT THE BEAUX ARTS AND HAD TAKEN THE "PRIX DE ROME•, HE ASKED KITTY TO MARRY HIM, AND THIS PROVED TO BE THE IN THE SPRING OF 1905, THE ROCKWELL FAMILY WAS SPENDING SOME REASON FOR ANOTHER FAMILY TRIP TO PARIS, MONTHS IN SICILY. WE CLIMBED PART WAY UP MT. ETNA WITH AN ITALIAN WOMAN. SHE HAD ADVISED FRIENDS OF HERS, WHO LIVED ON THE WAY UP.­ WHILE STAYING IN PARIS WITH FATHER AND MOTHER, MY SISTERS THAT WE WERE COMING. WHEN WE ARRIVED THEY SAID THEY HAD PLANNED KITTY AND BERTHA AND I DECIDED TO TAKE A STUDIO APARTMENT WHICH TO HAVE US ALL TO LUNCH. THIS WAS A SURPRISE AS WE WERE TOTAL FATHER HELPED US FIND AND WHICH HE INSISTED HAD TO HAVE A DECENT STRANGERS. ONE COULD NEVER FORGET THE TABLE. IT WAS AT LEAST 20 "ENTRANCE. BERTHA WAS STUDYING PAINTING AND I WAS TO STUDY ARCHI­ FEET LONG, COVERED WITH A WHITE EMBROIDERED CLOTH ON WHICH THEY TECTURE AND KITTY WAS TO KEEP HOUSE AND ENTERTAIN THE FRIENDS HAD STREWN SPRING FLOWERS DOWN THE MIDDLE, END TO END. THIS SHE HAD MADE IN PARIS WHILE IN SCHOOL. FAMILY SPOKE NO ENGLISH AND OURS NO ITALIAN, SO SMILES AND LAUGHTER -FILLED THE GAP. WHENEVER MT. ETNA ERUPTS, I THINK OF THIS HOSPITABLE WE FOUND AN APARTMENT AND A NICE LITTLE FRENCH MAID. THE FAMILY. _ ...... APARTMENT WAS A TWO-STORY STUDIO ON THE SEVENTH FLOOR OF 238 BOULEVARD RASPAIL, WlTH A BEDROOM AND BATH, PLUS A "SOUSPENTE", NOW _I MUST TELL THE SAGA OF THE PAINT RAG. BERTHA AND I WERE OR BALCONY BEDROOM,AND A ROOF GARDEN OVERLOOKING ALL OF PARIS. I, BUSILY SKETCHING AND PAINTING. THE RUINS OF AN ANCIENT TEMPLE AT ' 14. IS. JULIA WELLS' A VIRGINIA GIRL I HAD KNOWN AT WELLESLEY' :N: WENT TOGETHER ON THE SECOND BICYCLE TRIP WHICH TOOK US TOT WE WERE ALLOWED TO USE THE ELEVATOR GOING UP, BUT NEVER DOWN AS . WE FELT COMPLETELY FREE. IT COST THE -OWNER OF Tl£ APARTMENT HOUSE TWO SOUS EACH TIME IT MANY FAMOUS CHATEAUX SOUTH OF PARIS~ IF WE FAILED TO LIKE A PLACE WHERE WE HAD EXPECTED TO SPEND THE WAS USED. ST -GOT -ON OUR BIKES AND RODE ON • NIGHT, WE JU THROUGH KITTY'S ACQU-AINTANCE WITH MARCEL AUBURTIN, THE •FAMOUS OCCUPANTS WHILE WE WERE RIDING WE PRETENDED TO BE ARRANGED TO STUDY ARCHITECTURE AT HIS ATELIER IN PARIS. HE ' HAD OF THE CHATEAUX SUCH AS FRANCIS I AT BLOIS, IN HIS COLORFUL CAREER. SEVEN AMERICANS ENROLLED- ALL GRADUATES OF YALE AN> PRINCETON. ' FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO HAD THIS CHARACTER GAME HELPED BRING BACK THE WHEN THESE BOYS HEARD A GIRL WAS COMING THEY DIDN'T LIKE THE IDEA. LIVED IN THESE GORGEOUS OLD CHATEAUX AND INFLUENCED US TO STUDY 11 11 THEY DECIDED TO NAME ME LIZ • IT TURNED OUT THAT WE ALL BECAME -THEIR HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. LIFELONG FRIENDS. THESE BOYS WORKED THREE YEARS BEFORE "THEY FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO PASSED ALL THE EXAMINATIONS TO ENTER THE BEAUX ARTS. IT WAS THE YEAR OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND N PARIS THAT DAY WAS WAIT­ AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY. EVERYONE I WE ALL TOOK THE FIRST EXAMINATION. I LEARNED THAT I WAS THE lNG FOR NEWS OF THE EARTHQUAKE AND STANDING IN THE STREET IN FRONT SECOND WOMAN WHO HAD EVER TAKEN AN EXAMINATION AT BEAUX ARTS. OF THE NEWSPAPER OFFICE WHILE WAITING FOR BULLETINS' LONGING FOR

THE OTHER WOMAN WAS MISS MORGAN OF SAN FRANCISCO WHO LATER NEWS OF THEIR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO. DEVOTED MOST OF HER LIFE TO THE BUILDING OF THE HEARST PALACE OF GREAT RENOWN IN CALIFORNIA. OUR PARENTS WERE IN SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA, WHERE DESTRUC­ TION WAS AT ITS HEIGHT. ALL OF THE BUSINESS SECTOR OF SANTA RosA ONE MUST PASS THE FIRST EXAM TO QUALIFY FOR "n--E SECOND,THEN WAS DESTROYED. BANKS WERE BURNED AND NO MONEY WAS TO BE HACD. y - OUT FROM JUNCTION IT • MUST PASS "n--E SECOND FOR THE "n--IRD,AND SO ON FOR SEVERAL. WEEKS. MY FATHER -IMMEDIATELY HAD CURRENCY SENT NONE OF US PASSED THE FIRST ONE,BUT WHAT A MEMORABLE DAY~ THEY FOR THIS ACT HE IS STILL REMEMBERED. PUT ME IN A BIG LIBRARY WITH- GUARDS AND LOCKED THE DOOR. HUNDREDS OF FRENCH BOYS BEGIN TO TAKE THESE EXAMS EVERY SIX MONTHS ,BEGIN WHAT I REMEMBER ESPECIALLY IS THE INCIDENT WHICH WAS LATER MORNING OF THE EARTHQUAKE SHE lNG AT 14 OR 50 YEARS OF AGE. ALL DAY I COULD HEAR "n--EM YELLING TOLD ME ABOUT MY MOTHER • ON THE AND WONDERING AND SINGING • APPEARED FULLY DRESSED WITH HAT,VEIL,AND GLOVES F LAW TO CANCEL THEIR IF SHE SHOULDN'T CALL HER SISTER' MRS • IN ' A CALL SHE COULDN'T HAVE MADE. ALL THE PHONE WHEN THE DAY WAS OVER ONE OF THE AMERICAN BOYS CAME TO RES­ DINNER ENGAGEMENT, CUE ME. HE SAID HE WOULD TAKE ME -BY "n--E BACK WAY BECAUSE ALL DAY LINES WERE DOWN. THE FRENCH BOYS HAD BEEN PLANNING TO THROW BUCKETS OF WATER ON ME N CITY' KANSAS' IN 1906' AND LEARNED AS I ENTERED THE BIG COURTYARD. HE HAD A TAXI WAITING AND WE RAN, WE RETURNED TO JUNCTIO KANSAS CITY I WENT WITH FALLING INTO IT WITH OUR DRAFTING BOARDS, "T" SQUARES AND THAT OUR PARENTS HAD PLANS TO MOVE TO • TRIANGLES. FATHER TO FIND A HOUSE. WE RENTED THE ROBINSON HOUSE oppOSITE F AMILY WAS LEAVING FOR A YEAR 'jl JANSSEN PLACE. THE ROBINSON HOUSE TO SOMEONE WHO WOULD KEEP DURING OUR STAY IN PARIS,WE TOOK TWO BICYCLE TRIPS IN FRANCE. ABROAD AND WANTED TO RENT THEIR

A BICYCLE TRIP IN ANY COUNTRY MEANS COMING DOWN TO BAREST ESSENTIALS AMELIA, A MAID. AND INVOLVES A LOT OF PREPARATION AND CAREFUL PLANNING AND ENDS IN CE MY FATHER CON- BEING THE MOST CAREFREE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME. I WANTED TO GO INTO AN ARCHITECTURAL OFFI • DENT AND NOT RECEIVE A SALARY. THE ONE TRIP WAS NORTH OF PARIS TO THE FAMOUS 12TH CENTURY SENTED IF I WOULD GO AS A STU 1 5 I APPROACHED WAS WIGHT Be WIGHT. WA CATHEDRALS OF AMI ENS, BEAUVAIS ,AND ROUEN. MY COMPANIONS WERE FIRST ARCHITECTURAL FIRM A WOMAN. YOU CAN'T MR.AND MRS. PHINEAS PAIST. TOLD' "WE'RE SORRY BUT WE COULD NOT TAKE 17.

16._ SWEAR AT WOMEN AND THEY CAN'T CLIMB ALL OVER FULL SIZED DETAILS", . THE NEXT FIRM, . WHICH WAS HOWE, HOlT AND CUTLER, WERE DELIGHTED THE HOUSE I DESIGNED WAS A LONG ONE WITH PORCHES ON EACH ·To HAVE ·ME. THEY HAD TWELVE DRAFTSMEN. THEY NEVER NEEDED TO END, AT ONE END WAS MY SLEEPING PORCH WHERE I AWAKENED MANY swEAR AND I couLD MANAGE FULL s1 ZE DEn\u_'s. THEY HAD JUST coM­ TIMES WITH SNOW ALL OVER MY BED. BUT IN SUMMER WHAT A VIEW I PLETED THE R.A . LONG BUILDING AND WERE WORKING ON THE R.A.LONG HAD OF THE POLO FIELD AT OUR COUNTRY CLUB,NOW LOOSE PARKI. ON .. RESIDENCE WHICH IS NOW THE KANSAS CITY MUSEUM, AND THE R. A. THE BACK OF THE HOUSE WAS A PORTE COCHERE WITH A DECK ON TOP. THE . GARAGE IN THE BASEMENT WAS THE FIRST INSIDE GARAGE WHICH THE IN- LONG FARM, THE HEAD DRAFTSMAN, A YOUNG MAN BY THE NAME OF . . . , .SIMP!fON ASKED, , "TELL ME, WHAT DOES A BUTLER DO IN A BUTLER'S SURANCE COMPANY HAD MET UP WITH. To HAVE A CAR WITH A TANKFUL OF PANTRY?" HE LATER BECAME A PARTNER IN THE WELL KNOWN ARCHITECTURAL GASOLINE INSIDE A HOUSE WOULD DEFINITELY RAISE THE PRICE OF INSUR­ FIRM OF KEENE Be SIMPSON, MR. HOWE OFTEN ASKED ME TO COME TO ANCE. HIS PRIVATE OFFICE TO SEE SOMETHING HE WAS DESIGNING. THE FIREPLACE IN THE LIVING ROOM WAS MADE OF NATIVE STONE

A YOUNG MAN NAMED J.C. NICHOLS WAS JUST LAYING OUT A RESI­ AND TOOK UP MOST OF ONE SIDE OF THE ROOM. INTO THE STONE I HAD CARVED ON ONE SIDE THE ROCKWELL COAT OF ARMS; ON THE OTHER, THE DENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. MY FATHER BOUGHT THE FIRST LOT IN THIS SNYDER COAT OF ARMS. DEVELOPMENT FOR ME 50 THAT I COULD BUILD MY FIRST HOUSE ON IT. THIS LOT WAS LOCATED AT 53RD AND BROOKSIDE, WHICH HAD A STREAM ON THE DINING ROOM WAS A LARGE SQUARE ONE DONE IN BLUE-GREEN IT AND LOVELY TREES, THIS HOUSE FOLLOWED THE LATEST TRENDS OF ·CALIFORNIA COTTAGES • . THE LIVING ROOM WALLS WERE COVERED WITH TILE. ON THE SIDE WALLS ABOVE THE TILE, BERTHA PAINTED SCENES FROM ITALIAN VILLAS. To THE EAST OF THE DINING ROOM WAS A BREAK­ BROWN AND GOLD WALLPAPER AND MY SISTER BERTHA DID A MURAL IN FAST ROOM WHERE GINO VENANZI PAINTED A BLUE SKY WITH BRANCHES OF THREE SECTIONS,OF KANSAS WHEAT FIELDS. MY AUNT, MRS. WILLIAM ORANGE BLOSSOMS ON THE CEILING. A FOUNTAIN AND POOL WERE DONE IN B. CLARK, AND I LIVED IN IT A MONTH TO TRY IT OUT. MOSAIC TILE. A NICHE HELD A GREEN GOBLET NEAR A PUSHBUTTON. ONE

NEXT CAME A HOUSE FOR MY SISTER FLORENCE EDWARDS IN SANTA PUSHED IT AND GOT ICE WATER. ROSA, CALl FORNI A. THEN ONE FOR ALICE STEVENS IN WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, I MADE CHANGES IN OUR PHI SIGMA SORORITY HOUSE EACH MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WANTED A ROOM OF HIS OWN SO WITH AT WELLESLEY, TOO, THESE AND TWO GUEST ROOMS AND SERVANTS' ROOMS,WE NEEDED ELEVEN BEDROOMS,

THEN ONE DAY DURING A SNOWSTORM IN KANSAS CITY, ABOUT 1908, THE THIRD FLOOR WAS A BIG PLAY ROOM WHERE WE CREATED OUR MY FATHER BOUGHT A LOT IN A NEW DEVELOPMENT-SUNSET HILL, NOW OWN ENTERTAINMENT. IN FRONT OF THE BIG WEST WINDOW WAS A STAGE 1004 W. 52ND STREET. THIS PROPERTY WAS COVERED WITH HUGE WAL... NUT TREES AND SLOPED DOWN TO SUNSET DRIVE WHERE THERE WAS A STONE WITH A BALCONY WHERE WE PRODUCED PLAYS. AT THE OPPOSITE END OF QUARRY, THIS ROOM WAS A FIREPLACE WHERE WE OFTEN COOKED FOOD SENT UP FROM THE KITCHEN ON THE DUMB WAITER. SEATS WERE BUILT UNDER THE

WHEN I STARTED' TO WORK ON THE HOUSE FOR MY FAMILY, WE WERE EAVES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROOM WITH SMALL TABLES BUILT IN LIVING IN ONE OF THE LARGE NELSON HOUSES ON 47TH STREET. MY BETWEEN. (TWO OF MY SISTERS WERE MARRIED IN THIS HOUSE: BERTHA FATHER SAID, "THIS HOUSE IS VERY SATISFACTORY. CAN YOU DUPLICATE TO GINA VENANZI AND KITTY TO FRANCIS CROSBY, ONE TO GO ON TO LIVE THIS ONE?" WHEN I SHOWED HIM THE. PLANS, HE SAID "No, IT LOOKS IN ITALY AND ONE TO LIVE IN CALIFORNIA. FRANK DICKENSON WAS A MORE LIKE A CHARLES PLATT OR JAMES POLK HOUSE." FATHER ASKED FREQUENT AND WELCOME GUESTt HE WOULD ENTERTAIN US FOR HOURS AT WHERE HE COULD SEE ONE OF THOSE. "OH", I SAID, "PROBABLY IN MT. A TIME WITH HIS IMPROVISED MUSIC AND SONGS. ANOTHER FREQUENT KISCO, NEW YORK," HE WAS GOING TO NEW YORK AND TOOK TIME TO GO GUEST WAS INGHRAM D. HOOK, A YOUNG LAWYER. HE AND I BECAME TO MT.KISCO. HE LIKED WHAT HE SAW, GREAT FRIENDS BEFORE HE WENT OFF TO FRANCE AND WORLD WAR 1,

18. 19. AT ONE RESORT THERE WAS A BEAR ON A CHAIN. I OFFERED HIM A BISCUIT. HE ROSE ON HIS HIND LEGS AND PUT HIS TWO PAWS ON MY SHOULDERS. THAT WAS A MOMENT TO REMEMBER!

LATER, AFTER ALMA HAD MARRIED SHERMAN HAY, A ' LAWYER, AND THE FIRST NIGHT WE WERE HAVING DINNER AT THE PENSION WHERE WE THEY WERE LIVING IN WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SHE LEASED AN ACRE OF LAND WERE STAYING WHEN A COUPLE WALKED IN AND JOINED US AT THE TABLE. IN COLORADO NEAR LONG'S PEAK INN FROM THE FAMOUS NATURALIST, THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO US AS ROSE O'NEILL AND CARLO COLEMAN. ENOS MILLS. EARLY ONE SPRING SHE ASKED ME TO DESIGN A SUMMER . BERTHA WHISPERED TO ME: "I KNOW WHO THAT WOMAN IS t SHE'S AN HOME FOR THEM. WE TRAVELED 100 MILES NORTH FROM DENVER, UP THE ARTIST, I READ AN ARTICLE IN THE KANSAS CITY STAR ABOUT HER." SOUTH SAINT VRAIN PASS, BREAKING TRAILS AS WE WENT ALONG. AFTER IT WAS INDEED THE ROSE O'NEILL WHO HAD CREATED THE KEWPIE DOLLS PUSHING ASIDE FLOCKS OF MOUNTAIN SHEEP AND DEER, WE REACHED ESTES AND HAD WRITTEN SUCH ENCHANTING VERSES ABOUT THEM. PARK.

IT WAS .THAT SAME SUMMER THAT ROSE .O'NEILL AND HER SISTER, THE ONLY PERSON IN THIS REGION WAS KATHARINE GARRETSON OF ST. CALLISTA, MADE THE FIRST TRIP TO GERMANY TO CHECK THE MODELS LOUIS WHO HAD STAKED OUT A GOVERNMENT CLAIM OF 360 ACRES BY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF THE KEWPIE DOLLS. EVENTUALLY TWENTY­ LIVING ON IT THREE YEARS. IN THIS PLACE, CALLED BIG OWL, WE FOUND SEVEN FACTORIES IN GERMANY WERE TO BE DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO REFUGE, THE PRODUCTION OF THESE DOLLS. THESE LAUGHING SYMBOLS OF BENE­ VOLENCE BECAME VERY POPULAR, AND EVERYONE HAD A KEWPI E DOLL. I WAS SO OVERWHELMED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE PLACE AND THE MAG­ NIFICENT VIEW OF MEEKER AND LONG'S PEAK THAT I FELT I MUST HAVE ROSE HAD DIVORCED TWO HUSBANDS. HER STUDIO IN WASHINGTON A PIECE OF THIS LAND. SQUARE, IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY, WAS THE MEETING PLACE FOR WELL KNOWN POETS AND PAINTERS. SHE, IN FACT, WAS ONE OF THE FAR UP ON THE SLOPE OF THE MOUNTAIN, ABOVE A STREAM, I CHOSE MOST INTERESTING PERSONALITIES OF HER TIME. "CARAVAS", HER HOME AN ACRE OF GROUND. WHEN WORLD WAR I WAS OVER, I GOT AN EX-SOLDIER ON THE RIVER AT WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT, BECAME HEADQUARTERS FOR WHO WAS A CARPENTER AND BILL DINGS WHO GUIDED MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS ARTISTS AND WRITERS WHO LITERALLY CAMPED AT HER HOUSE. HER PAINT- UP LONG'S PEAK AND ONE HORSE. ALL TOGETHER, WE CUT OUR OWN POLES, . INGS STILL HANG IN THE LUXEMBOURGH GALLERIES AND THE METROPOLI-· HAWLED THEM DOWN TO THE BUILDING SITE AND CONSTRUCTED THE FRAME I' TAN MUSEUM, AND WERE EXHIBITED AT THE PARIS SALON. FOR THE CABIN INCORPORATING A MASS OF BOULDERS WHERE THERE WAS A NATURAL FIREPLACE IN THE ROCKS. THEY NOW CALL THIS "THE CAVE" AND ONE OF THE MEMORABLE TRIPS I HAD WAS THE ONE PLANNED ENTIRELY THE CAVE PARTIES WHICH THE EUGENE HOOKS HAVE THERE ARE AN FOR HORSEBACK RIDING. MY WELLESLEY ROOMMATE, ALMA SEIPP, CAME ANNUAL EVENT. THE CABIN THAT WAS LATER BUILT ADJOINING THE DECK FROM CHICAGO TO JOIN ME. IS NOW THE SUMMER HOME OF EUGENE AND LIBBY, 'susAN AND BILL. SUSAN AND BILL SHARE THEIR PARENTS 1 ENTHUSIASM FOR THE MOUNTAINS

A ROUND TRIP. TRAIN .TICKET FROM KANSAS CITY PERMITTED STOPS IN AND EUGENE HAS CAPTURED THE BEAUTY AND GRANDEUR OF THE PLACE IN NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA,CALIFORNIA,WESTERN CANADA AND THE CANADIAN PHOTOGRAPHY. THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW REMOTE AND UNTOUCHED SPOTS

ROC~IES AND THEN BACK THROUGH MINNEAPOLIS TO KANSAS CITY FOR IN THIS AREA. $50.00. AT EVERY STOP WE WERE ABLE TO GET GOOD RIDING HORSES. IN CANADA, AN ENGLISH BOY ADOPTED US AND WALKED EVERYWHERE WE RODE.

20. 21. l• ' IN THE SPRING OF WHILE I WAS IN 'SAN FRANCISCO, IRE­ 1913, AFTER THE LONG, TIRING DAY OF RIDING THROUGH SHALLOW STREAMS CEIVED A LETTER FROM SUSAN HUNTINGTON'S .SISTER, RUTH, A RECENT AND FOLLOWING TWISTING PATHS THROUGH DARK FORESTS, WE LONGED TO GRADUATE OF SMITH COLLEGE, ASKING ME TO COME TO SEE THE HINDMAN GO TO BED, BUT OUR HOSTESS FOR THE NIGHT CONTINUED TO SIT IN OUR SETTLEMENT SCHOOL IN KENTUCKY, OF WHICH SHE WAS ONE OF THE BEDROOM, IN FRONT OF THE FIRE, SMOKING HER CORNCOB PIPE. "Do YOU DIRECTORS. ALL STRIP YOURSELVES OFF NAKED AT NIGHT?" SHE ASKED. WE SAID WE DID. "WELL", SHE REPLIED, "I JUST KICK OFF MY BOOTS AND LAY DOWN." MISS KATHERINE PETTIT,~NE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE HINDMAN

SCHOOL, AND ETHEL DELONG HAD BEEN OFFERED 450 ~CRES OF MOUNTAIN THE NEXT DAY WE ARRIVED AT PINE MOUNTAIN. MISS PETTIT AND THE LAND IN HARLAN COUNTY IF THEY WOULD COME AND START A SCHOOL FOR NURSE HAD GONE ON SOME WEEKS BEFORE, WALKING THE FIFTY MILES. ' CHILDREN WHO WERE OUT OF REACH OF ANY "LARNIN" • THEY HAD TAKEN A HOUSE ON A HILLSIDE, WHICH THEY THEMSELVES HAD

. . . . PAINTED AND PAPERED. AFTER SLEEPING QUARTERS WERE CHOSEN, THE HAD BEEN TOLD TO GET OFF THE TRAIN AT HAZARD, KENTUCKY, ONLY PLACE LEFT WAS A PORCH SO I SLEPT THERE. WHERE SOMEONE WOULD MEET ME. THE BOY WHO DID MEET ME TOLD ME HE HAD BROUGHT TWO "NAGS 11 WHICH WOULD BE OUR MODE OF TRANSPOR­ 1 LONG BEFORE DAYLIGHT, THE MOUNTAIN FOLK BEGAN WALKING ON THE TATION THE 30 . MILES WE HAD TO TRAVEL TO REACH THE SCHOO.L. I ROAD BELOW THE PORCH. THEN ONE OF THEM, A GIRL NAMED BERTHA, · CHANGED INTO RIDING CLOTHES AND SOON DISCOVERED TI-JAT MY HORSE APPEARED AND ASKED: "WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR BREAKFAST? WE HAVE REALLY~ A NAG, THE BOY'S A SMART YOUNG COLT. I SUGGESTED THAT EGGS." THIS SOUNDED GOOD TO ME, UNTIL I DISCOVERED SHE HAD PUT 14 PERHAPS HE COULD MANAGE MY HORSE BETTER THAN I COULD, AND HE EGGS IN A KETTLE TO BOIL. A MOMENT LATER MISS PETTIT APPEARED SAID, "WELL, THERE AIN'T NEVER NO F _EMALE I::VER RID THIS NAG, _eUT AND WAS HORRIFIED WHEN SHE SAW WHAT BERTHA HAD DONE. SHE HAD MAYBE YOU COULD." MY ADVENTUROUS YOUNG MOUNT STARTED UP ALL MADE A THOROUGH AND EXHAUSTING SEARCH OF THE REGION TO FIND THOS:: THE WRONG TRAILS, BUT BY DARK WE HAD REACHED OUR DESTINATION. PRECIOUS 14 EGGS. LUCKILY THEY WERE RESCUED FROM THE FIRE.

THE TEACHERS WHO GREETED ME WERE HORRIFIED THAT I WAS PINE MOUNTAIN WAS AN ENCHANTING SPOT. THE HILLS WERE COVERED WEARING RIDING BREECHES ,A COSTUME THAT HAD NEVER BEEN SEEN IN WITH TALL TREES AND RHODODENDRON, WITH CLEAR STREAMS OF WATER THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS. LADIES WORE DIVIDED SKIRTS. RACING ALONG BELOW.

:TJ.fE NEXT MORNING WE ATTENDED COMMENCEMENT EXCERCISES AT IN ORDER TO INSPECT THESE 450 ACRES OF UNTOUCHED MOUNTAIN LAND HINDMAN AND LOOKED OVER THE BUILDINGS • . TJiEN FOUR OF US, SCHOOL~ WE HAD TO CROSS GREASY CREEK, GROSSLY MISNAMED, AS IT WAS A ETHEL DELONG, A NATIVE BOY NAMED GUY, WHO WAS OUR GUIDE, ALICE CLEAR SWIFT STREAM OF PURE WATER. THERE WAS LITTLE LEVEL LAND BROWN, A WOMAN FROM ST. LOUIS AND I, MOUNTED OUR "NAGS" FOR 1 AND WE REALIZED AT ONCE THAT THESE PRECIOUS LEVEL SPOTS MUST BE THE FIFTY MILE TREK TO PINE MOUNTAIN, WHERE THE LAND FOR THE LEFT FOR CROPS AND GRAZING PASTURES. PROPOSED SCHOOL WAS LOCATED. THE ONLY BUILDING IN THIS AREA, WHICH WE CALLED "OLD LOG",

WE REACHED A HOUSE WHERE ETHEL HAD PLANNED FOR US TO STAY THE STOOD NEAR THE ENTRANCE TO THE 450 ACRES. THERE WERE TWO ROOMS NIGHT. ETHEL AND GUY DISMOUNTED,AND GAVE ME THE REINS OF THEIR IN IT,SEPARATED BY AN OPEN PORCH WHICH WAS CALLED A "DOG TROT". HORSES.. ONE OF THE HORSES IMMEDIATELY PROCEEDED. TO BITE THE COORS FROM EACH ROOM OPENED ONTO THIS PORCH. IN THE OUTSIDE WALL FLANK OF ALICE'S HORSE. HE REARED, AND BOTH HORSE AND RIDER OF EACH ROOM WAS A BEAUTIFUL STONE FIREPLACE. WE RESTORED AND

ROLLED DOWN THE BANK OF A C~EEK. I WAS PANIC STRICKEN FOR A MOMENT TREASURED THIS HOUSE. 3UT ALICE WASN'T SERIOUSLY HURT. SHE HAD A BAD CUT ON HER LEG BUT WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY THE NEXT DAY. FORTUNATELY,

I • THE HORSE WASN'T HURT, EITHER. ! 22 •. 23. "1 THE CREECH FAMILY, WHO HAD GIVEN MOST OF THE LAND, ALSO FUR­ HAD TO BE SET IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION.ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE NISHED US WITH LOGS FOR THE FIRST HOUSE, WHICH WAS TO BE MISS FEATURES OF THE NEW SCHOOL HOUSE IS THE SLIDING DOORS AT THE REAR PETTIT'S. THESE BEAUTIFUL LOGS- MANY OF THEM FORTY FEET LONG­ OF THE STAGE, WHICH OPEN UP SO THAT THE MOUNTAIN WHICH SLOPES UP BEHIND THE BUILDING COULD BE USED AS OUTDOOR SCENERY. WERE HAND HEWN, WHICH MEANT MANY MONTHS OF >LABOR.

AFTER MISS PETTIT'S HOUSE WAS COMPLETED, I PLANTED LARGE THE SCIENCE BUILDING ALSO CONTAINED THE PRINT SHOP AND THE WORK­ BUSHES OF WILD RHODODENDRON BELOW THE LONG LIVING ROOM. WHEN SHOP. THIS BUILDING AND THE LITTLE CHAPEL. UP ON A SIDE HILL WERE UNCLE WILLIAM CREECH, WHO WAS THE GODFATHER OF THIS SCHOOL, BUILT OF STONE. THE HOSPITAL SERVED NOT ONLY THE SCHOOL BUT THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY • . SAW THEM HE REFUSED TO SPEAK TO ME FOR =THREE WEEKSI ·RHODODENDRON WAS THE WILD WEED WHICH HAD TO BE DUG OUT OF THEIR FIELDS. UNCLE WILLIAM FELT THE SAME WAY ABOUT RHODODENDRONS THAT MOST PEOPLE WHEN I WAS GIVEN AN ACRE OF GROUND AT PINE MOUNTAIN, I STARTED FEEL ABOUT THE POOR DANDELIONS. MAKING PLANS FOR THE HOUSE I WOULD BUILD. ETHEL MCCULLOUGH AND MARGUARITE BUTLER AL.SO WANTED TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR THEMSELVES,

THE NEXT BUILDING TO BE CONSTR.UCTED WAS "LAUREL HOUSE". To BUT I SUGGESTED THAT WE BUILD JUST ONE HOUSE FOR ALL THREE OF US. GIVE IT THE FEELING OF THE OUT-OF-DOORS, LAUREL HOUSE WAS ,BUILT IT WAS A TWO-STORY HOUSE, WITH A SLEEPING PORCH AND DRESSING ROOM AROUND A COURTYARD. WATER FROM ONE O.F THE MOUNTAIN STREAMS WAS FOR EACH OF US. AND A STUDIO FOR ME. I CALLED IT "OPEN HOUSE. 11 CARRIED BY PIPE UNDER THE HOUSE AND EMPTIED INTO A POOL IN THE CENTER OF THE COURTYARD, THEN THROUGH A ORAl N PIPE AND BACK INTO "OPEN HOUSE" CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED BY THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT THE STREAM. THE LARGE DINING ROOM STRETCHED UP TWO STORIES HIGH FROM AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY A STAFF MEMBER OF THE LOUISVILLE TO WHERE SLEEPING PORCHES, WITH BUNK BEDS, PROVIDED DORMITORY COURIER JOURNAL.: SPACE FOR TWENTY-.FIVE GIRL STUDENTS AND STAFF WORKERS. ITS GREAT OJ NING ROOM WAS THE SCENE OF SATURDAY NIGHT COUNTRY DANCES AND "• • • • AND THE HOSPITALITY OF PINE MOUNTAIN WIL.L. FILL YOU WITH MAY DAY PERFORMANCES AND IT WAS HERE THAT THE ENTERTAINMENT SO A GL.OW. GLYN MORRIS WILL GUIDE YOU TO THE "OPEN HOUSE', A GUEST INGENIOUSLY DEVISED BY THE CHILDREN WAS PRESENTED FOR THEIR OWN CABIN, ... PERCHED ON A BIG ROCK WITH ITS SCREENED 'SLEEPING PORCHES AMUSEMENT, AS WELL AS FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS. THEN ON A JUTTING OVER THE VERY JUNGLE. THIS HOUSE WILL INTEREST YOU FROM BITTERLY COLD NIGHT IN JANUARY, 1940, LAUREL. HOUSE WAS TOTALLY THE FRONT PORCH TO SECOND FLOOR. EVERYTHING BRINGS AN ARTISTIC DESTROYED BY FIRE. THE PRESENT LAUREL HOUSE IS LARGER AND FUR­ ADAPTION OF "LOCAL TO LOCALITY" - SLAB SIDES, RAFTER POLES, STONE

THER UP THE HILL, WITH A TWO-STORY LIVING ROOM AND DINING ROOM FIREPLACES, WOODCRAFT IN EVIDENCE AT EVERY TURN 1 PLENTY OF THE THAT HAS BEEN THE SCENE OF MUCH FOLK DANCING AND SINGING. HOMESPUN, AND FRAGRANCES OF THE FOREST PERVADING EVERY ROOM. YOU WOULD GO WILD ABOUT THIS HOUSE. IT SEEMS TO HAVE GROWN OF ITS A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND THOUGHT WENT INTO PLANNING THE OWN VITALITY FROM THE ROCKS AND WOODS. AND SO SECLUDED IS IT ,BACK SCHOOL HOUSE. LUMBER WAS CUT AND SEASONED FOR FINISHING THE IN­ IN THE WHITE RHODODENDRONS AND FERNS, THAT EVEN GLYN MORRIS (THE THEN DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL), LEADING US BY FLASHLIGHT, COULD TERIOR. IT WAS NEARLY COMPLETED WHEN A FIRE, CAUSED BY COMBUS­ TION RESULTING FROM A PILE OF PAINT RAGS TOSSED IN A CORNER OP' THE HARDLY FIND IT, ALONG ABOUT "WHIP-POOR-WILL HOUR". LIBRARY, SWEPT THROUGH THE BUILDING. SOME OF THE STUDENTS AND

TEACHERS HAD BEEN SLEEPING IN THE BUILDING, AND FIVE OF THEM LOST IT WAS THE GOOD FORTUNE OF THE PINE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL THAT A THEIR LIVES IN THIS FIRE. YOUNG MAN,LUIGI ZANDE,CAME TO KENTUCKY FROM HIS HOME IN NORTH­ ERN ITALY. HIS BROTHER HAD COME TO AMERiCA TO WORK IN THE COAL THE LOSS OF THE SCHOOL BUILDING CAUSED US TO CHANGE OUR OVER­ MINES IN PENNSYLVANIA. LUIGI HAD COME TO JOIN HIM,THEN WENT ON ALL PLAN. WE HAD LEARNED FROM BITTER EXPERIENCE THAT THE BUIL.D­ TO THE KENTUCKY COAL MINES WHERE HE HEARD OF THE PINE MOUNTAIN INCS WERE DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TOGETHER SO THE NEW SCHOOL BUILDING SCHOOL. HE CAME TO TAKE A LOOK AND STAYED TO BECOME OUR INVAL- 24. 25 • . I UABLE SUPERVISOR OF CONSTRUCTION, HIS FATI-IER HAD TAUGHT HIM ALL THE BUILDING 't"RADES AND I LEARNED MUCH ABOUT BUILDING FROM LUIGI. ALn-tOUGH MANY CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED AT PINE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL, HE WAS A FINE MAN AND LATER HE MARRIED En-tEL DELONG. BURTON ROGERS, THE . PRESENT Dl RECTOR, AND HI 5 WI FE MARY, HAVE CONTINUED TO CARRY ON THE IDEAS AND IDEALS OF THE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS,

GOOD DRAMA CAME TO KANSAS CITY AND WAS ALWAYS• WELL ATTENDED GETTING TO ~INE ~OUNTAIN DURING ITS EARLY YEARS WAS A PROBLEM. ONE TOOK ATRAIN TO PINEVILLE, KENTUCKY, AND SPENT A NIGHT IN THE .BUT THERE WAS A NEED FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT TO FILL THE GAPS BE­ HOTEL THERE. -THE NEXT MORNING, AFTER SWITCHING TO A KNAPSACK AND TWEEN GOOD PLAYS, I DISCUSSED WITH HENRY ASHLEY, A WELL KNOWN LEAVING SUITCASES WITH THE PORTER, ONE BOARDED AN EARLY TRAIN. LAWYER, THE IDEA OF FORMING A COMEDY CLUB OF LOCAL TALENT AND THIS TRAIN MADE SIDE TRiPS THROUGH THE VALLEYS, THEN AFTER IT HAD ASKED HIM TO B.E PRESIDENT, HE AGREED, THUS BEGAN A MOST SUCCESS­ DEPOS.ITEP .ITS PASS,ENGERS AT VARIOUS STOPS, IT WOULD BACK UP TO THE FUL AND POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT WHICH LASTED FOR YEARS, THERE WAS MAIN TRACK. THE CONDUCTOR WOULD OBLIGINGLY STOP .THE TRAIN AT THE GOOD TALENT IN KANSAS CITY: MADILL GATES,, D. L, JAMES, PAUL AND BASE OF. PINE ,MOUNTAIN, WITH KNAP,SACK OVEA SHOULDER, ONE STARTED HELEN MOHR, LEROY SNYDER, FANNY JAMES, KATHERINE GOODLETT, LEON AND MARY DENISON,BRYSON JoNES, HENRY D. ASHLEY, MAY EGAN, THE LON~ CLIMB TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN. THEN, BESIDE A QUIET LITTLE , STREAM, , ONE ATE THE ROLLS THAT HAD BEEN BUTTERED AT A VERY HERBERT AND ELEANOR JONES, HELEN BEALES, EARLY BREAKFAST AND PLACED IN THE KNAPSACK, ONE OF OUR OTHER AMUSEMENTS WAS BOATING ON THE BLUE RIVER, WE

FROM THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, ,THERE WAS A ZIGZAG PATH DOWN BUT DECIDED TO HAVE A CLUBHOUSE AND I DREW A SIMPLE PLAN FOR IT; WE CALLED IT "SHACK EN BLEU", ERNEST HOWARD, A SMART BRIDGE DE- I WOULD OFTEN TAKE A SHORT CUT BY SLIDING STRAIGHT DOWNj THIS TOOK 51 GNER , ·WAS THE ENGINEER, THE CLUBHOUSE WAS BUILT ENTIRELY BY THE ABOUT TWO AND A HALF TO .THREE HOURS, IF ONE WERE A GOOD SLIDER. MEN -AND SOME OF THE WOMEN MEMBERS, IT CONSISTED OF THREE UNITS:

A SENATOR WHO ONCE CAME TO VISIT THE SCHOOL ASKED UNCLE A LARGE PORCH OPEN TO THE RIVER WITH A FIREPLACE IN THE CENTER OF WILLIAM CREECH HOW MUCH MONEY IT TOOK FOR A ,FAMILY TO LIVE FOR THE BACK WALL, AND A DRESSING ROOM ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS PORCH, A'YEAR IN THESE MOUNTAINS. "WELL," SAID UNCLE WILLIAM, "AN ONE FOR MEN AND ONE FOR WOMEN. WE COOKED OUTSIDE, KALAN! ARM­ ORDINARY FAMILY, SAY OF TWELVE YOUNGUNS, IT WILL COST AS MUCH AS STRONG TURNED OUT TO BE THE BEST CHICKEN COOK! OUR GOOD OLD HORSE, $24.00A YEAR." WHEN I HEAR HOW MONEY IS CARELESSLY TOSSED ROUND BABE, FURNISHED THE TRANSPORTATION BETWEEN SUNSET HILL AND 27TH IN THIS COUNTRY I THINK OF THESE NICE PEOPLE. THEIR INCOMES ARE STREET AND THE BLUE RIVER. MEAGER, BUT THEY AREN'T POOR. THEY AR'E VERY PROUD OF THEIR HERI­

TAGE WHICH IS QUITE EVIDENT. IN THE COLORFUL LANGUAGE THEY SPEAK AT THIS TIME TENNIS,GOLF AND HORSEBACK RIDING FILLED MUCH OF AND BY THE OLD ENGLISH,SCOTCH AND IRISH FOLK DANCES AND BALJ...ADS THE DAYS. THOSE OF US WHO HAD RIDING HORSES RODE BOTH WINTER AND WHICH HAVE BEEN HANDED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO .GENERATION, THE . SUMMER, SEVERAL HOURS EACH DAY. WE ALL HAD VERY LIVELY HORSES CHILDREN'S ·PERFORMANCES OF THESE SONGS AND DANCES SO IMPRESSED WHICH HAD TO BE EXERCISED IF WE DIDN'T WANT TO BE THROWN OFF. A ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WHEN SHE Vl&ITED PINE MOUNTAIN THAT SC~OL, RACING COLT WAS BEQUEATHED TO ME BY MY UNCLE, DR. FINLAW, OF SHE INVITED THEM TO PERFORM AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND THIS TI-lEY DID SANTA ROSA, CALl FORNI A, I HAD HELPED THE MEN BREAK TI-lE COLT ON TWICE. MY UNCLE'S PRIVATE RACE TRACK IN CALIFORNIA, THEY TOLD ME THAT ST. HUBERT WOULD NEVER MAKE A RIDING HORSE, MEN AT THE STABLE THE YOUNGSTERS WERE ENERGETIC AND THEIR RESOURCEFULNESS WAS TRIED TO BREAK HIM TO THE SADDLE, HE THREW THEM OFF, HE WAS THE MOST EVIDENT WHEN THE BOYS LEARNED HOMEMAKING SKILLS WHILE THE . MOST BEAUTIFUL BLACK HORSE I HAD EVER SEEN, GIRLS MASTERED THE MANUAL ARTS, As A RESULT WE OFTEN HAD BOYS r WHO WERE EXPERT COOKS AND GIRLS WHO WERE QUITE PROFICIENT IN CAR­ PENTRY,

27. ' ·s"-r •.HUBERT WA!:(SH-IPPEO TO KANSAS CITY AND I ASKED PADDY MAGILL, THE HEAD OF POLO AT THE KANSAS CITY COUNTRY CLUB, IF HE -WOULD BREAK HIM. HE. DID, BUT WAS THROWN DAILY, AND AGREED WITH THE MEN IN CALIFORNIA THAT HE WOULD NEVER BE RIDDEN. HOWEVER, I HAD TO .RIDE -HIM, COME WHAT MAY, BUT I WAS NEVER HURT WHEN THROWN AND THE HORSE ALWAYS CAME BACK TO PICK .ME UP~ WE WERE CLOSE FRIENDS FOR EIGHT YEARS. THERE WAS A RACE TRACK AT BLUE HILLS COUNTRY CLUB. HE SHOWED OFF WELL THERE AND COULD BEAT EVERY I . OTHER HORSE.

ONE DAY I GOT AS FAR AS THE POLO FIELD WHEN ST. HUBERT BEGAN A BUCK JUMP. I KNEW I COULDN'T KEEP THE SADDLE FOR MORE THAN FIVE BUCKS. WHEN I FELL, · I LAY ON THE GROUND AND_CRIED. I WAS NOT SO PHYSICALLY HURT AS I WAS DISCOURAGED. PADDY CAME OUT AND PICKED ME UP AND I SAID, "L.OOK, THIS IS TOO FINE A RACE HORSE ·TO SELL. HIS SIRE COST $50,000. I COULDN'T SELL HIM, BUT I WILL GIVE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. BERTRAND ROCKWELL • HIM TO YOU. 11 PADDY SAID, "YOU THINK THAT OVER AND DON'T DECIDE 52ND AND BELLEVIEW,KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI ANYTHING NOW." A FEWDAYS LATER I GAVE THE HORSE _TO PADDY. AFTER THAT I DIDN'T SEE ST.HUBERT OR ASK WHERE HE WAS. THEN ONE DAY, AT A FOURTH OF JULY PARADE IN SWOPE PARK, I SAW MY PRECIOUS HORSE RIDDEN- BY A MAN IN A FANCY COSTUME. I WENT TO THE GATE WHERE THE PROCESSION WOULD EXIT AND SPOKE TO THE RIDER. I SAID, "IS THIS HORSE YOURS?" 11 0H ,NO , 11 SAID HE, 11 HE BELONGS TO THE RID- . lNG STABLE AT THE COUNTRY CLUB PLAZAI" I ! r i I THE NEXT MORNING I WAS TAKING A TRAIN TO NEW YORK. WHEN I RETURNED, I WENT AT ONCE TO THA_T STABLE. "OH, 11 SAl D THE OWNER, "THAT WAS THE BEST. HORSE THAT EVER CAME INTO THIS BARN. BUT YESTERDAY WE SOLO HIM TO A MAN IN ATLANTA,GEORGIA, AND WE HAVE ALREADY SHIPPED HIM THERE. 11 I HAD LOST MY BEST FRIEND. SOME YEARS ! j LATER I ACQUIRED ANOTHER DEVOTED FRIEND WHEN MY SON, EUGENE, GAVE r·: ME A OALMATION PUPPY, TOMMY. ·

) NEARLY ALL VISITORS TO ASSISI IN ITALY ,CLIMB UP THE SIDE OF •'' MONTE. SUBASTO TO SEE THE OLD MONASTERY CALLED "L.E CARCERI ".NOW, l MOST OF THEM DRIVE UP TO SEE THE PLACE WHERE ST. FRANCIS SPENT I MUCH OF HIS TIME. HIS STONE PILLOW IS STILL THERE AND THE RIDGE WHERE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. INGHRAM D.HOOK HE WALKED AND TALKED TO THE BIRDS.A LITTLE BELOW THIS ARCHITECTURALLY 4940 SUMMIT ST., KANSAS CITY,MISSOURI

28~. 29. BEAUTIFUL. OL.D MONASTERY STOOD THE RUINS OF ANOTHER, KNOWN AS "LE CARCEREL.L.E".

THE . CARCEREL.L.E 1S ROOF HAD FAL.L.EN OFF BUT THERE WERE STILL. TWO INTERESTING MURALS. As t:AR AS A PEASANT COULD REMEMBER, THE SHEEP HAD ENJOYED THE PROTECTION OF THESE WAL.L.S FOR MORE THAN tOO YEARS.

THERE WERE TW~ SMALL. CHAPELS WITH VAUL.TED ROOFS REP-JAINING IN­ TACT. IN THE COURTYAR.D WAS A BIG ALMOND TREE WHICH, WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS PLACE, WAS IN FULL. BLOOM AND-tTS FRAGJIIIANCE FIL.L.ED THE AIR. ON THE TERRACE WERE TWO WEL.L.S WHICH WERE FAMOUS FOR THEIR HEAL­ ING WATERS. ONE OL.D MURAL. SHOWED PILGRIMS BEING HEALED.

MY BROTHER;-IN-L.AW, GINO VENANZI ·, WHO WAS AN ARCHITEC-r: AND AN ARTIST, LONGED TO OWN nus OL.D MONASTERY. HE LEARNED THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE BOUGHT FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, WITH THE PROVISION THAT THE TWO CHAPELS WOULD BE RE-CONSECRATED AND FREE TO BE USED WHEN DESIRED BY THE CHURCH. MY SISTER, BERTHA, I WAS MOST EXCITED OVER THE PROSPECT OF OWNING THIS TREASURE OF A !· PLACE WHICH WAS ONLY AN HOUR'S CLIMB FROM THEIR HOUSE IN ASSISI. A WEL.L.ESL.EY CLASSMATE, SUSAN HUNTI!iGTON, AND I WERE IN ASSISI I AT THIS TIME AND WE BOTH WANTED A SHARE IN THE MONASTERY, TOO. So WE EACH HAD A FOURTH INTEREST IN "LE CARCEREL.L.E", AND ·sooN I i PROCEEDED WITH REPAIRS. •' . . ON THE END WAL.L. OF THE TWO-STORY REFECTORY THERE REMAINED ONLY A L.ITTL.E PAINT OF A DESTROYED MURAL, SO GINO TOOK A L.ONG STRING AS A GUIDE AND DREW A HALF CIRCLE ·TO CONFORM WITH THE VAULT OF THE ROOF. · IN IT HE PAINTED A MURAL., WHEN VISITORS CAME THEY INVARIABLY SAID, "OH, THIS MUST BE ONE OF THE ORIGINAL. MURALS." GINO, WHO LOVED A GOOD JOKE, WOULD SOLEMNLY REPLY., "YES, OF MARY INGHRAM HOOK 8: COURSE. 11 So THE VISITOR CONVINCED HIMSELF THAT HE WAS A CONNOISSEUR SIESTA KEY, FLORIDA-MAY l 970 OF ANCIENT ITALIAN ART.

IN l 914 WHEN BERTHA WAS EXPECTING HER FIRST CHILD, SHE WROTE AND ASKED ME TO COME OVER AND BRING AMERICAN BOOKS• CLOTHES AND ADVICE AND BABY EQUIPMENT FROM A K .ANSAS CITY DOCTOR. THE ADVICE AND EQUIPMENT I GOT FROM DR. MOSHER.

36. - 37. THE VENANZIS HAD EMPLOYED AN ITALIAN NURSE BUT THE AMERICAN EQUIPMENT WAS JUST TOO MUCH FOR HER TO UNDERSTAND. I REMEMBER INTERESTING INCIDENTS WRITTEN FOR ME BY GIULIANA, CONCERNING HOW SHE DUTIFULLY FILLED THE FOLDING BATHTUB WITH HOT WATER BUT THE VENANZI HOUSEHOLD IN. LATER YEARS MIGHT WELL BE INSERTED H!::RE: AT THE MOMENT OF GETTING THE BABY INTO IT FOLLOWING THE BIRTH, ON OCTOBER 29, 1930, THE ITALIAN .ROYAL PRINCESS GIOVANNA WAS MARRIED THE NURSE KNOCKED OVER THE TUB. SEEING THE TILE FLOOR COVERED TO KING .BORIS OF BULGARIA. THE WEDDING ITSELF TOOK PLACE IN ASSJSI IN WITH WATER, SHE DISSOLVED INTO TEARS. THIS METHOD OF BATHING, THE UPPER CHURCH OF THE BASILICA OF ST. FRANCIS, THE DROPS FOR THE EYES, AND THE AMERICAN CLOTHES WERE COMPLETELY THE VENANZI FAMILY FOUND ITSELF INVOLVED IN THE FESTIVITIES IN FOREIGN TO HER. THE NUR~E LATER WAS DISMISSED AND I TOOK HER PLACE VARIOUS WAYS. FIRST CAME A COMMITTEE OF OFFICIALS TO INSPECT THE FOR EIGHT MONTHS. LATER ON, THIS EXPERIENCE PROVED USEFUL IN VENANZI HOUSE- AN OLD PALACE IN EXISTENCE AT THE TIME OF ST. FRANCIS, KANSAS CITY AT THE BIRTH OF MY BELOVED NIECE, JEAN MARY LOVE t 300 A. D. • THEY CONSIDERED THE NUMBER OF BEDROOMS AND ESPECIALLY (MRS. ALAN BLACKMANl . JEAN MARY AND GIULIANA ARE THE ONLY GIRLS BATHROOMS AND JUDGED IT TO 'BE AN ADEQUATE LODGING FOR THE BULGARIAN BORN TO THE "FIVE PERFECT DAUGHTERS". SOVEREIGN. HOWEVER, ROYALTY OF BOTH NATIONS DECIDED TO MAKE THEIR HEADQUARTERS ON THEIR RESPECTIVE TRAINS, SO "CASA VENANZI" WAS GIULIANA MARY FRANCESCA TERESA VENANZI WAS CHRISTENED IN RESERVED FOR "IL DUCE" - MUSSOLINI. ROYAL TV WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT ONE OF THE CARCERELLA CHAPELS. FOR THE CHRISTENING, WE ALL HONOR; A DICTATOR MEANT A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY. MOVED . UP TO "LE CARCERELLE". THE PRIEST IN HIS ROBES 1 FOLLOWED BERTHA AND GINO WERE BUSY FOR WEEKS GETTING EVERYTHING IN ORDER. BY FOUR ROBED ACOLYTES CARRYING SILVER VESSELS ON THEIR HEADS 1 POLICE CAME AND INSPECTED THE HOUSE FROM CELLAR TO ROOF, WENT INTO MADE AN INTERESTING PROCESSION AS THEY CAME INTO VIEW AT THE NEIGHBORING HOUSES HUNTING FOR PLACES FROM WHERE THEY COULD KEEP THE END OF THEIR HOUR'S CLIMB UP THE MOUNTAIN. I HAD GATHERED THE HOUSE UNDER SURVEILLANCE, QUESTIONED MEMBERS OF THE FAMI LV AND, OF YELLOW GENESTRA OFF THE . MOUNTAIN TO DECORATE THE CHAPEL. COURSE, THE SERVANTS.

FINALLY IT WAS DECIDED THAT BERTHA AND GIULIANA WOULD HAVE TO SLEEP BEFORE THE CHRISTENING CEREMONY 1 THE CHAPEL HAD TO BE RE­ ELSEWHERE. GINO WOULD. STAY IN THE HOUSE. THIS WAS MAINLY FOR LACK OF CONSECRATED. THIS WAS HARD .ON THE BABY WHO HAD BEEN AWAKENED BEDROOMS, AS WHEN MUSSOLINI TRAVELLED, HIS ENTOURAGE WAS RATHER TOO EARLY. GINO ASKED ME TO HOLD GIULIANA WHO CRIED ALL THROUGH NUMEROUS (PERSONAL MAIO, SECRETARY, POLICE OFFICER, DOCTOR, . AND I DON'T THE SERVICE. KNOW WHO ELSE).

LATER, GINO PAINTED A MURAL OVER THE ALTAR,OF HIS WIFE AND CHILD. SUSAN HUNTINGTON, WHO HAD COME OVER FROM SPAIN WHERE WHEN THE DAY ARRIVED, IN MIDAFTERNOON A BLACK LIMOUSINE STOPPED SHE WAS HEAD OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR GIRLS, WAS PAINTED IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE. CESIRA (THE MAID) HAD ARRIVED WITH HER MASTER'S ON ONE PANEL AS "BEATA SUSANNA." I WAS IN THE OTHER PANEL BUT GINO LUGGAGE, CESIRA WAS A WELL KNOWN CHARACTER IN THOSE DAYS. IT IS HARD SAID I WASN'T WORTHY OF BEING "BEATA" SO HE MADE ME "SANTA" MARIA. TO DESCRIBE HER POSITION IN THE MUSSOLINI HOUSEHOLD. PROBABLY .SHE SUSAN'S VOCATION WAS INDICATED BY A BOOK SHE WAS HOLDING IN HER HAND. RULED IT! SHE DEFINITELY TOLD HER MASTER -THE DICTATOR- WHERE TO MY MAIN INTEREST WAS REPRESENTED BY A SMALL FIGURE OF A BLACK GET OFF! HORSE.

SHE ARRIVED, UNPACKED MUSSOi...INI 1 S LUGGAGE, HUNG ·A JACKET ON EACH WHILE I WAS THERE I RESTORED A WING OF THE MONASTERY AND OF THE THREE CHAIRS IN THE ROOM, PUT OUT HIS PAJAMAS AND DRESSING GOWN, SLEPT ON AN OPEN LOGGIA WHERE THE CLOUDS DRIFTED THROUGH ONE ARCH --~A!\10 DESCENDED BELOW, As SHE GOT TO THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS, THE HEAD OVER MY BED AND OUT THROUGH THE OPPOSITE END. OF THE PROVINCE OF PERUGIA (IN THOSE DAYS A MOST IMPORTANT PERSON) I WENT BACK TO MADRID WITH SUSAN, BUT WHEN WORLD WAR 1 WAS WHO HAD COME TO RECEIVE "IL DUCE" OFFICIALLY, NOTICED HER AND CALLED DECLARED, WE RETURNED TO PARIS AND CAUGHT THE LAST SHIP SAILING HER BY NAME. SHE SCARCELY DEIGNED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND PROCEEDED

FROM FRANCE TO THE UNITED STATES. TO INSPECT THE KITCHEN!

38. 39. A LITTLE LATER A SCREECH OF TIRES ANNOUNCED "IL 0UCE 1 S" ARRIVAL. HE

WAS A FAST DRIVER AND LOVED HIGH POWERED CARS. THE VENANZIS WERE AT THE Tl ME, BERTHA WAS LIVING ALONE IN THE LARGE HOUSE WITH ONLY INTRODUCED TO HIM AND •••• , Dl SMI SSED! A MAID. GIULIANA, HER HUSBAND FILIPPO AND THREE YEAR OLD SON,BERTRANDO, HAD MADE THEIR RESIDENCE IN FILIPPO'S COUNTRY PLACE, A FEW MILES OUT OF NEXT MORNING WAS THE ROYAL WEDDING, FOLLOWED BY LUNCHEON IN A ASSISI. VILLA NEARBY. GIULIANA WAS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE VENANZI FAMILY

WHO HAD THE HONOR OF BEING PRESENT AT THE WEDDING. NOT FOR ANY SPECIAL ONE DAY THE FASCIST POLICE APPEARED AT THE DOOR OF THE VENANZI MERIT BUT BECAUSE AT THE AGE OF 14, SHE WAS OBLIGED TO BELONG TO THE HOUSE AND DEMANDED TO SEARCH THE HOUSE. NOTHING COULD BE DONE BUT TO LET "YOUNG FASCIST GIRLS" AND, THEREFORE, WAS ORDERED TO DO IT! THEM IN.

THE HONOR WAS WELL EARNED! SHE WAS IN CHARGE OF 20 CHILDREN, AGED THEY STARTED FROM THE TOP "8TORY WHERE GJULIANA AND FILIPPO STAYED FIVE AND SIX, OUT OF A HUNDRED WHO WERE TO LINE THE AISLE FROM THE WHEN THEY WERE IN TOWN AND THEY SOON MADE IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES. IN A ENTRANCE OF THE CHURCH TO THE ALTAR. CLOSET WAS A RADIO- QUITE A NOVELTY AT THAT TIME AS IT COULD BE USED

WITH A BATTERY INSTEAD OF ELECTRICITY. THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THE LIKE SO DRESSED IN A LONG WHITE GOWN, A CROWNLET OF ARTIFICIAL BLOSSOMS SUSPECTED AT ONCE THAT IT WAS A TRANSMITTING RADIO) ON HER HEAD (THE SMALLER CHILDREN WERE DRESSED IN THE SAME MANNER),

SHE FIRST HAD TO HELP DRESS HER CHARGES, THEN ESCORT THEM TO THE CHURCH ANOTHER TERRIBLE PIECE OF EVIDENCE WAS FOUND: GIULIANA'S ADDRESS AND KEEP THEM IN ORDER, AND QUIET! NOT A PLEASANT JOB, BUT AT LEAST AN BOOK FULL OF AMERICAN ADDRESSES (MAINLY OF COLLEGE FRIENDS I). OPPORTUNITY TO SEE PLENTY OF ROYALTY!

AT THIS POINT THE POLICE HAD NO MORE DOUBTS: THE VENANZIS, BESIDES FEW DAYS AFTER THE HISTORIC VISIT, ONE OF THE FAMOUS BLACK A BEING ANTI-FASCISTS, WERE ALSO SPIES I LIMOUSENES STOPPED IN FRONT OF THE VENANZI HOME. A VERY DIGNIFIED

PERSON DESCENDED, RANG THE DOOR BELL AND, ON ENTERING, INQUIRED IF BERTHA HAD BEEN ASKED TO STAY IN HER ROOM WHILE THEY SEARCHED THE P~OFESSOR CARLO GINO VENANZI WAS AT HOME. HE WAS NOT AND HAPPENED UPSTAIRS. WHEN THEY ENTERED HER ROOM SHE AT ONCE NOTICED THE ADDRESS TO BE AT "LE CARCERELLE", THE VENANZI SUMMER RESIDENCE ON THE BOOK IN THEIR HANDS AND SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT HER OWN ADDRESS BOOK MOUNTAIN ABOVE ASSISI. WAS ON A LITTLE TABLE BESIDE HER. IF GIULIANA'S HAD PLENTY OF AMERICAN ADDRESSES, HER's HAD PLENTY MORE Ill So, USING THE ESCUSE THAT SHE HIS MISSION, BEING ONE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE, THE DIGNIFIED PERSON FELT CHILLY, SHE WENT TO THE CLOSET AND SLIPPED A COAT AROUND HER DEPARTED FOR THE MOUNTAIN. EVIDENTLY HE FOUND GINO BECAUSE A PHOTO­ SHOULDERS AND THEN, SITTING DOWN AGAIN, LET PART OF THE COAT REST

GRAPH OF MUSSOLINI, IN A SILVER FRAME, WITH A DEDICATION IN MUSSOLINI 'S ON THE TABLE. WHEN SHE FINALLY GOT UP, THE COAT WAS LEFT BEHIND HANDWRITING, RESTED ON A TABLE IN THE MAIN LIVING ROOM UNTIL THE BE­ AND ••• ,UNDER IT THE ADDRESS BOOK) GINNING OF WORLD WAR II, IT WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE TOP OF A HIGH CLOSET IN THE SEWING ROOM I J THE HOUSE WAS SEARCHED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM BUT NOTHING IMPORTANT

WAS FOUND. THEY HAD COME TO HUNT FOR FIRE-ARMS BUT NEVER FOUND THEM WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT. AFTER THE FAMOUS INTERLUDE OF MUSSOLINI'S BECAUSE THERE WERE NONE IN THE HOUSEl. VISIT IN 1939, THE VENANZI HOME BECAME A SUSPICIOUS BUILDING. BERTHA BEING AMERICAN WAS, OF COURSE, CONSIDERED AN ENEMY, GINO WAS KNOWN TO AFTER THAT DAY, BERTHA DECI.DED THAT MUSSOLINI 's PHOTOGRAPH BE CONTRARY TO THE FASCIST REGIME AND GIULIANA HAD MARRIED THE SON OF SHOULD DESCEND FROM THE.TOP OF THE CLOSET WHERE IT HAD BEEN CONFINED A WELL KNOWN ANTI~FASCIST. AND RESUME IT'S PLACE IN THE LIVING ROOM.

4o-. 41. THIS DECISION HELPED HER LATER WHEN, DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION, DID AN INTERESTING MURAL OVER THIS FIREPLACE. THE LIVING ROOM OVER THE "NEW" FASCISTS WANTED TO REQUISITION THE HOUSE AND USE IT FOR THE ENTRANCE HALL WAS OF IRREGULAR SHAPE AND OPENED ONTO THE GARDEN BARRACKS. IN FACT THEY HAD MORE OR LESS DECIDED THAT IT COULD BE WHERE THERE WAS A FOUNTAIN AND A SMALL POOL. THIS IS A HOUSE I USED WHEN THEY ENTERED THE LIVING ROOM. THERE ON THE MAIN TABLE Ll KE TO REMEMBER. STOOD MUSSOLINI 1 S PHOTOGRAPH WITH HIS SIGNATURE AND A FEW WORDS OF THANKS FOR A KIND HOSPITALITY! THE WARD INVESTMENT COMPANY HAD SOLD ALL OF THEIR FLAT LOTS AND WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HILLSIDE CONSTRUCTION. THEY ASKED THE SIGHT OF IT AWED· THEM! "DID YOU HAVE THIS HONOR?" THEY ASKED US TO PLAN A HOUSE ON SUNSET DRIVE AND ROCKWELL LANE. WE BUILT BERTHA. THERE WAS NO MORE DISCUSSION ON THE POSSIBILITY OF REQUISI­ ONE ON A STEEP HILLSIDE, WHICH WAS THE HOME OF MR. 8c MRS. FLOYD TIONING THE HOUSE. MUSSOLINI HAD STAYED THEREJ JACOBS. THIS REALLY HELPED WITH THE SALE OF HILLSIDE LOTS.

UNFORTUNATELY, SOME MONTHS LATER BERTHA WAS OBLIGED TO TURN OVER MOST OF HER HOUSE TO A FAMILY OF REFUGEES FROM TUNIS. ALTHOUGH THEY WERE DECENT PEOPLE SHE NEARLY FAINTED WHEN, ON THE DAY THAT THE BRITISH TROOPS ENTERED ASSISt, THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY TOOK HER ASIDE AND CO NFI OED TO HER THAT THEY WERE JEWS! KANSAS CITY WITH ITS HILLS AND DALES WAS FORTUNATE IN BEING LAID OUT BY A GERMAN PLANNER NAMED KESSLER. HE PRESERVED ITS CONTOURS AND BUILT PARKS AROUND THE LAKES ON THE HILLSIDES. WE WERE HILLSIDE HOUSES PRESENT MUCH MORE OF A CHALLENGE THAN HOUSES MORE FORTUNATE THAN SAN FRANCISCO WHICH WAS DIVIDED INTO SQUARES, ON A FLAT SURFACE. WITH NO THOUGHT OF WHETHER THE STREETS WERE TOO STEEP FOR TRAFFIC. ALSO IT WAS BETTER THAN WASHINGTON, D.C., PLANNED BY L'ENFANT WHEN MY SISTER, EMILY, WAS TO BE MARRIED, THEY BOUGHT A WITH ITS CIRCLES WHICH LEAD TO CONFUSION. HILLSIDE IN SUNSET HILL WHERE A STREET WAS PLANNED BUT NOT YET BUILT. VASSJE HILL, WHO OWNED THE WARD INVESTMENT COMPANY, ,I IN NEW YORK, A NEW TRAFFICWAY HAD JUST BEEN COMPLETED ALONG I, SAID: "WHAT SHALL WE NAME THE STREET?" IT WAS ABBE STANTON THE HUDSON. WHEN I DROVE OVER IT, I THOUGHT OF OUR LOVELY MISSOURI HAGERMAN WHO QUICKLY REPLIED" "WHY NOT NAME IT AFTER MARY RIVER LINED WITH STORAGE BUILDINGS. I CONSULTED MY REPUBLICAN ROCKWELL?" THUS THE HOUSE WAS ROCKWELL LANE. ONCE MORE 5029 LAWYER HUSBAND ABOUT GETTING AN AUDIENCE WITH OUR POWERFUL DEM­ TiiE HOUSE WAS BUILT BEFORE THE STREET. OCRAT CITY BOSS. INGHRAM HAD A FRIEND IN ST.LOUIS, EDWARD WHITE, WHO WAS VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD. MR. WHITE WAS A GOOD DEMOCRAT WHO WAS ATTENDING A MEETING IN TEXAS WHEN THE LONG CONSTRUCTION COMPANY STARTED TO EXCAVATE FOR AT WHICH MR. PENDERGAST WOULD BE PRESENT. MR. WHITE MADE AN THIS HOUSE, IN 1915, THEY IMMEDIATELY RAN INTO NOTHING BUT STONE. APPOINTMENT FOR ME WITH MR. PENDERGAST, SO WHEN HE RETURNE_, TO So THIS SIMPLE LITTLE HOUSE WHICH WAS TO BE A $5,000 FRAME STRUC­ KANSAS CITY, I WENT TO KEEP THE APPOINTMENT. WHILE I WAS SITTING TURE WAS ENTIRELY BUILT OF STONE, AT THE COST OF $10,000. THE IN THE OUTER OFFICE, THE DOOR OF HIS PRIVATE OFFICE OPENED AND SIX l FIRST FLOOR WAS A GARAGE AND LARGE ENTRANCE HALL, ALL STONE t IN­ LARGE DEMOCRATS FILED OUT, GLARING AT ME OVER THEIR BIG CIGARS. SIDE AND OUT. A HUGE FIREPLACE, WITH A HOOD WHICH EXTENDED OVER LONG SEATS ON BOTH SIDES, WAS BUILT LIKE ONE I REMEMBmED IN SEGOVIS, MR. PENDERGAST RECEIVED ME MOST CORDIALLY. HE SAID, "MR SPAIN, WHERE A WET AND WEARY PARTY OF SKIERS HAD FOUND WARMTH WHITE HAS TOLD ME THAT WHATEVER MRS~ HOOK WANTED I MUST BE SURE AFTER A DAY'S DESCENT OF THE GUADALAJARA MOUNTAINS. GINO VENANZI TO DO." THIS WAS A GOOD BEGINNING BUT WHEN HE HEARD MY IDEAS ABOUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT, HE SAID, "THIS I WOULD LIKE ESPECIALLY TO SEE

42. 43. DONE, AND IT COULD BE, BUT IF I DID IT PEOPLE WOULD SAY I HAD DONE I ~ THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE WERE OLDER ALUMNAE AND i IT FOR THE VOTES OF THE NORTH END, BUT YOU, MRS, HOOK, ARE THE THEY LOOKED UPON US AS QUITE IMMATURE. THEY FIRST COMMISSIONED ONE TO PROMOTE THIS," UNFORTUNATELY, THAT WAS THE END OF THAT. A BOSTON ARCHITECT TO MAKE PLANS BUT TURNED THEM DOWN, THEY NEXT

EMPLOYED A CHICAGO FIRM WHOSE PLANS WERE ALSO REJECTED. THIS WAS MY NEXT EFFORT WAS A NEW CITY PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY, A GREAT EXPENSE TO THE BUILDING FUND. II WHICH I DISCUSSED WITH A DEVELOPER, J.C.NtCHOLs.(HE LATER BECAME NATIONALLY KNOWN FOR HIS DEVELOPMENT IDEAS.) THIS RESULTED IN A THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, EDWIN FARNHAM GREENE, COMMITTEE OF 100 BEING APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR, FOR CIVIC IMPROVE­ WHO WAS A FRIEND OF MINE, SUGGESTED THAT THE COMMlTTEE ASK ELIZA MENT • THIS, OF COURSE, WAS DEATH TO ANY ACCOMPLISHMENT, LATHROP NEWKIRK AND ME TO LOOK UP THE -WORK OF TWO OR THREE OF THE LEADING DOUGLASS, A YALE GRADUATE WHO NEEDED A JOB, AND I OJ D A MOST 1N­ ARCHITECTS IN NEW YORK, BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA. WE RECOMMENDED TERESTING STUDY FOR A CIVIC CENTER ON THE WEST SIDE. THIS STUDY DELANO AND ALDRICH OF NEW YORK, BUT THE COMMITTEE DISREGARDED INTERESTED US BUT NOT THE CITY. MR. DOUGLAS IS NOW AN INTERNATION­ OUR SUGGESTION AND SETTLED UPON CRAM ,GOODHUE AND FERGUSON. THIS ALLY KNOWN ARCHITECT, WITH OFFICES IN NEW YORK AND PARIS, WAS A FIRM COMMITTED TO CHURCH BUILDINGS, THIS WAS A GREAT DIS­ APPOINTMENT TO ME AS I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT PRODUCE TOO SERIOUS A LATER, UNDER A REPUBLICAN MAYOR, ALBERT I. BEACH, A FRIEND BUILDING. I HAD GREAT IDEAS OF A BUILDING WHICH EXTENDED OUT OVER OF INGHRAM'S, I WAS ASKED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE MAYOR'S COMMITTEE, LAKE WABAN, WITH A PIER GOING OUT OVER THE LAKE, FORMING A WIDE CALLED THE "ART COMMISSION". THERE· WERE EIGHT PROMINENT BUSINESS -· DECK OFF THE THEATER FOR PROMENADING DURING INTERMISSIONS, OR FOR MEN AND MYSELF ON THIS COMMITTEE. THEY APPOINTED ME SECRETARY DANCES • UNDERNEATH WOULD HAVE BEEN WHAT WE MOST NEEDED-SLIPS AND GAVE ME AN OFFICE .IN CITY HALL. THEY ALSO GAVE ME A SECRETARY, FOR VARSITY CREW BOATS, I HAD ROWED ON THE CREW FOR FOUR YEARS AND TOLD ME THAT SHE MUST HAVE A TYPEWRITER, I TOLD THEM I COULD AND HAD BEEN STROKE OF THE VARSITY CREW, BRING MY TYPEWRITER FROM HOME. THEY SAID: "YOU WILL CHOOSE A

TYPEWRITER FROM THIS CATALOGUE AND~ WILL CHOOSE A FILING CABINET FROM THIS OTHER CATALOGUE,i' MY YOUNG SECRETARY WAS MRS, IDA LEE MAIER WHO LATER SERVED AS SECRETARY TO BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DURING THE LAST YEAR OF WORLD WAR 1, MRS, (GENERAL) t-ERMAN DEMOCRATIC MAYORS AND THE CITY COUNCIL FROM 1926 UNTIL HER RE­ TIREMENT IN 1967. HALL AND I LIVED IN ROSE O'NEILL'S STUDIO IN NEW YORK. MRS, HALL WAS WORKING WITH THE VETERANS' BUREAU AND I WAS TRANSLATING SPANISH TRADE MAIL AT THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE, MUCH LATER, FOR THE SECOND TIME, I WAS THE ONLY WOMAN TO SERVE ON A COMMITTEE OF MEN,FOR AN ADDITION TO GRACE AND HOLY TRINITY '' ' ! ROSE'S STUDIO EXPRESSED HER LIGHTHEARTED PERSONALITY, IT WAS CATHEDRAL IN KANSAS CITY, I SUGGESTED THAT IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL A MARVELOUS PLACE, WE COULD LIE ON THE RAISED PLATFORM WITH THE WING, WE TAKE OUT A SMALL COURTYARD AND FOUR CORRIDORS, PUT IN A GREEN VELVET CUSHION AND LOOK OUT THE STUDIO WINDOW THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT OVERHEAD 1 AND GROW TROPICAL PLANTS. JoHN MURPHY, THE WASHINGTON SQUARE ARCH UP FIFTH AVENUE, THE STUDIO WAS FILLED ARCHITECT,WAS PLEASED WITH THE IDEA, AND THE PLANTS HAVE LOVED IT. WITH HER OWN PAINTINGS AND BOOKS WITH THE_ AUTHORS' INSCRIPTIONS­ NEARLY ALWAYS A LITTLE POEM TO HER - ON THE FLY-LEAF·, ONE OF MY FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH BUILDING COMMITTEES WAS WHEN

. i WELLESLEY DECIDED TO BUILD AN ALUMNAE BUILDING, ELIZA NEWKIRK, ONE DAY CALLISTA CAME IN AND SAID, "You KNOW WITTER BYNNER A WELLESLEY CLASSMATE WHO HAD TAKEN A DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE AT MISSES ROSE'S STUDIO, COULD WE ASK HIM TO COME UP ONE EVENING?" M.I.T. AND I WERE PUT ON COMMITTEE TO SELECT AN ARCHITECT AND SITE I SAID, "OF COURSE," FOR THIS BUILDING,

44. 45. A POET FRIEND OF WITTER'S HAD LOST HIS_ LIFE IN THE WAR AND HIS FROM APRIL 1-920 TO APRIL 1921 I LIVED IN COUCY-LE-CHATEAU,

MOTHER WANTED TO PUBLISH A BOOK OF HIS POEMS. WITTER WANTED TO FRANCE 1 WORKING FOR THE AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR DEVASTED FRANCE.

CON5ULT CALLISTA ABOUT SOME CHANGES HE CONSIDERED MAKING IN HIS THIS COMMITTEE HAD BEEN SET UP BY ANNE MORGAN 1 THE DAUGHTER OF FRIEND'S POETRY. So ALL THAT NIGHT WITTER READ POETRY, PLAYED THE J. PIERPONT MORGAN, TO HELP HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES IN THE WRECKED GRAND PIANO, AND SANG AND DANCED. CLINK O'NEILL, ROSE'S BROTHER, AISNE DISTRICT TO RE-ESTABLISH THEIR MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD. THE HAD DROPPED OFF TO SLEEP ON A COUCH, WHERE WE LEFT HIM IN THE EARLY PRINCIPLE INDUSTRY OF THIS AREA WAS RAISING BEETS FOR SUGAR. THE MORNING. IT WAS -A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. RECENTLY I UNCOVERED A POEM FIELDS WERE FULL OF UNEXPLODED BOMBS WHICH HAD TO BE CLEARED SO I WAS INSPIRED TO WRITE THE NEXT DAY. THAT THE PEOPLE COULD MAKE A FRESH START.

CALLISTA SWEEPS THE STUDIO AT THE CHATEAU DE aLERENCOURT, ANNE MORGAN HAD ESTABLISHED

A LARGE HOSPITAL. SHE HAD ALSO SET UP SEVERAL CENTERS 1 EACH ONE

ASHES 1 ASHES, WITTER BYNNER, SERVING 20 TO 30 VILLAGES, WHERE WE HAD CLASSES IN SEWING AND FLASHING, DASHING, SAINTED SINNER. COOKING. IN ADDITION TO THESE CLASSES, WE ALSO RAN A KINDERGARTEN. How YOUR VERSE REACHED DIZZY HEIGHT WE HAD A SHOP WHERE WE SOLD ALL THE LEFT-OVER HAND KNITTED.SOCKS TRAILING PHOSPHORESCENT LIGHT AND CLOTHING FROM AMERICA. WE ACQUIRED SOME AMERICAN BARRACKS

SWEPT AND GARNISHED NOW OF ASHES WHICH WE SET UP AND FURNISHED. YEARS LATER 1 I USED ARMY BARRACKS FROM THOSE DARING, MADCAP DASHES AT THE JUNGLE LODGES I BUILT ON SIESTA KEY IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA. ORDER NOW AND SANITY APPEAR To BE RE-INSTATED HERE. ANNE MORGAN BROUGHT IN THE FIRST GASOLINE OPERATED TRACTORS BUT WHO CAN SWEEP THE ATMOSPHERE EVER USED IN THAT AREA. SHE MADE ME DIRECTOR AT COUCY AND SENT

OF THE MUSIC THAT WAS HERE7 ME A FORO THAT HAD TO BE STARTED BY CRANKING. WE HAD ~RENCH WHO CAN EVER HOPE TO Fl NO SERVANTS AND BOnt FRENCH AND AMERICAN TEACHERS FOR OUR SCHOOLS. A MONDAY MORNING STATE OF MIND?

KNOW YOU, WITTER BYNNER DEAR IT WAS IN MARCH OF 1921 THAT SMALL PLANES 1 HOLDING TWO How YOU WRECKED OUR ATMOSPHERE? PASSENGERS, WERE OFFERING A HALF HOUR RIDE OVER PARIS. TO THOSE WHO WANTED TO EXPERIENCE THE THRILL OF FLYING. THE DAUGHTER OF GENERAL LEONARD WOOD WHO WAS ALSO WORKING IN ONE OF ANNE MORGAN'S RELIEF CENTERS AND I SHARED THE EXCITEMENT 0~ SEEING THE EIFEL TOWER AND THE TUILLERIES FROM ALOFT. RECENTLY, I RECALLED

MY FLIGHT IN THIS LIGHT CRAFT 1 WHEN I WATCHED THE ASTRONAUTS LAND ON THE MOON, FORTY-EIGHT YEARS LATER.

ON APRIL 5, I RETURNED TO NEW YORK BY BOAT, EXPECTING TO

BE MAAR I ED TO INGHRAM HOOK IN OUR GAR DEN IN KANSAS C I TV. HOWEVER 1

46. 47. BUILDING FOR OURSELVES. WE QUARRIED THE STONE OUT OF THE SIDE HILL ON ARRIVAL IN THE STATES, I LEARNED THAT MY FATHER'S SISTER, MRS. WHICH BECAME THE SITE OF THE SWIMMING POOL. THE HOUSE, ITSELF, ADNA R. CHAFFEE, WAS DANGEROUSLY ILL IN PHILADELPHIA AND THAT MY SURROUNDED A LARGE COURTYARD ON THREE SIDES, THE OPEN SIDE OF WHICH PARENTS WERE WITH HER. INGHRAM AND MY PARENTS HAD DECIDED THAT LOOKED OUT ONTO A FORMAL GARDEN. A TWO-STORY LIVING ROOM OPENED INGHRAM WOULD ARRIVE THE NEXT DAY IN PHILADELPHIA AND THAT WE ONTO A WIDE _STONE TERRACE OVERLOOKING BRUSH CREEK. ON THE THIRD WOULD BE MARRIED THERE. OUR GOOD OLD FRIEND TED COOKE WAS FLOOR WAS A GUEST ROOM WITH AN OPEN TERRACE WHERE HER COUSIN

EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF DELAWARE. WE TELEPHONED HIM 1 AND HE SAID HE ERNEST HEMMINGWAY WROTE ONE OF HIS BOOKS. WOULD CERTAINLY COME UP TO PHILADELPHIA TO MARRY US. HE SUGGESTED CHRIST CHURCH, THE OLDEST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN AMERICA. THE THE PROPERTY I HAD SELECTED FOR US WAS PART OF THE WARD SIGHTSEERS IN CHRIST CHURCH STOPPED TO WATCH WHEN THEY SAW OUR FARM WHICH LATER BECAME THE SUNSET HILL DISTRICT. IT WAS A HEAVILY LITTLE WEDDING PARTY COMING DOWN THE AISLE. JUST FATHER AND WOODED HILLSIDE,AND AT THIS TIME THERE WERE NO ROADS CUT THROUGH IT. MOTHER, AUNT KATIE CLARKE OF KANSAS CITY, AND HELEN CHAFFEE ON THE TOP OF THE HILL ~NO OLD MAN HAD BUILT A SHELTER OF BOXES AND WERE WITH US. TIN CANS WHERE HE LIVED WITH HIS CHICKENS AND HOGS.

I CALLED JOHN STOKES WHO HAD MARRIED MY FRIEND,MAY EGAN. ON THIS HILL AT 50TH AND SUMMIT, I BUlLT WHAT I CALLED THE HE TOLD ME MAY WAS IN THE HOSPITAL,HAVING JUST HAD A BABY,BUT "PINK HOUSE." THE EXTERIOR WAS PINK PLASTER, WHICH I HAD BEEN FOR HE INVITED US TO COME TO HIS HOME IN A SUBURB OF PHILADELPHIA AFTER THE FIRST TIME AT THE WORLD'S FAIR IN SAN FRARCISCO. ONE OF THE

THE WEDDING CEREMONY. MY .UNCLE 1 DR. HAWLEY ROCKWELL, HEAD INTERESTING FEATURES OF THIS HOUSE WAS THE DINING ROOM FLOOR AND MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY IN NEW FIREPLACE MADE OF HIGHLY POLISHED NATIVE STONE. USINGTHE NATIVE YORK,HAD GIVEN ME A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE,S.O EVERYTHING FITTED STONE HAD BEEN SUGGESTED BY A MAN WHO SOLD STONE AND MARBLE ON TOGETHER l THIS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF MY LIFE. SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD." YoU'RE ALWAYS DOING ODD THINGS, 11 HE SAID AND SHOWED ME SLABS OF THIS STONE WHICH HE HAD CUT AND POLISHED FOURTEEN YEARS EARLIER BUT HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET ANYONE TO USE IT.!. IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

WHILE I'M WRITING ABOUT THIS HOUSE, I AM REMINDED OF THE DAY

WE HAD BEEN MARRIED TWO YEARS BEFORE I FOUND THE COURAGE WHEN A TAXI DROVE INTO OUR CIRCULAR DRIVE. A MAN STEPPED OUT AND TO ASK MY HUSBAND IF·•HE HAD ANY OBJECTIONS TO MY DOING ARCHITECTURE SAID, "EXCUSE ME. I'M FROM NEW YORK, AND I HAD A LITTLE TIME TO PROFESSIONALLY. WHEN I FINALLY DID ASK HIM, HE SAID. "CERTAINLY DRIVE AROUND KANSAS CITY. WHEN I SAW YOUR INTERESTING CHIMNEY I NOT, GO AHEAD." I ASKED MAC REMINGTON IF HE WOULD BE INTERESTED ASKED THE DRIVER TO STOP. WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA FOR THAT BAL­ 11 IN FORMING A FIRM WHICH WE DID AND CALLED IT HOOK AND REMINQIQ!!. CONY ENCLOSED WITH SPINDLES?" "0H," I SAID, "I SAW THAT IN A MOVIE. FORTUNATELY, THIS LITTLE FIRM BECAME POPULAR ALMOST AT ONCE SO HE SAID, "WELL, I DESIGNED THAT MOVIEI" I FAILED TO ASK HIM WHERE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO CHOOSE OUR CLIENTS INSTEAD OF VICB VERSA. J:m. HAD FOUND THE IDEA.

. A WELLESLEY FRIEND, RUTH WHITE LOWRY, HAD BEEN WAITING THERE WAS ROOM FOR TWO MORE HOUSES ON OUR PROPERTY SO I ALL THIS TIME FOR ME TO OPEN AN OFFICE. SHE WANTED AN ITALIAN BEGAN A SECOND HOUSE FOR OURSELVES WHICH LATER FATHER AND MOTHER HOUSE OF NATIVE AMERICAN STONE AND SHE LIKED THE WAY I WAS USING DECIDED THEY WANTED. THIS WAS 5011 SUNSET DRIVE. THE CITY WAS THE PINK COLORADO STONE WITH THE NATIVE STONE IN A HOUSE I WAS TEARING UP THE STREET CAR TRACKS AND DISCARDING THE PAVING BLOCKS OF COLORADO PINK STONE, ALMOST AS HARD AS MARBLE, WHICH I WAS ABLE

TO USE WITH THE NATIVE STONE. 48 •. 49. THIS HOUSE HAD PROGRESSED AS FAR AS AN OUTDOOR LIVING-ROOM SUPPORTED BY CAST-OFF RAILWAY TIES. IN THIS ROOM WE BUILT AN ENOR­ WHILE OUR HOUSE WAS GOING UP 1 WE BEGAN CONSTRUCTION ON A MOUS STONE FIREPLACE. THE LEFT SIDE WAS A REGULAR FIREPLACE TO SIT HOUSE IN WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA, FOR MY SISTER KITTY AND HER HUSBAND, BY; AT THE RIGHT SIDE WAS A STONE SHELF EXACTLY AS THEY ARE IN ITALIAN FRANCIS CROSBY. KITCHENS-SMALL OPENINGS WITH A GRILL OVER THEM AND ON THE FRONT, OPENINGS WHERE ONE FANNED THE FLAME WITH A FAN OF TURKEY FEATHERS.

THIS MAKES AN EXCELLENT AMERICAN GRILL. I WENT TO CALIFORNIA TO HELP LOCATE AND STAKE THE HOUSE ON THE 80 ACRES OF LAND. WE CHOSE A FLAT SPOT ON A HILL, LINED WITH HUGE I WANTED TO USE METAL CASEMENT WINDOWS IN THIS HOUSE. LIVE OAK TREES, WHICH OVERLOOKED SAN FRANCISCO BAY • THESE HAD TO BE ORDERED FROM ENGLAND, AS THEY WEREN'T MADE IN THE UNITED STATES. THE ENTIRE END OF A TWO-STORY LIVING ROOM WAS KITTY, WITH HER FRENCH EDUCATION AND FRENCH FURNI'T\JRE, WANTED

TO BE GLASS, LOOKING OUT FROM THE HILL OVER BRUSH CREEK, THE HOUSE TO BE OF FRENCH DESIGN. MY ARCHITECT FRIEND IN PARIS 1 HENRY DANGLER, HAD ONCE SEEN A TWO-STORY FRENCH COUNTRY HOUSIE WHILE THIS HOUSE WAS STILL IN THE PLANNING STAGE, THERE OUTSIDE OF PARIS. HE AND ANOTHER ARCHITEC'T\JRAL STUDENT HAD MADE WAS A SALE IN INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI, OF THINGS WHICH A FRIEND OF DETAILED DRAWINGS OF WINDOWS AND DOORS. HE HAD USED THE DETAILS FATHER'S HAD BOUGHT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR IN ST. LOUIS. I BOUGHT A IN A HOUSE AT LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, WHEN WORKING WITH ADLER IN CARVED WOODEN FIGURE, WHICH I USED ON A POST IN THE BALCONY-LIBRARY CHICAGO. IN THE MEANTIME, DANGLER HAD DIED BUT KITTY CROSBY, IN THE LIVING ROOM; ANDIRONS ,A FIRE SCREEN AND UTENSILS FOR THE MAC REMINGTON AND I WENT TO CHICAGO TO SEE THE HOUSE. WE USED LIVING ROOM FIREPLACE. SOME OF THE DETAILS.

ON ONE WALL OF THE SQUARE DINING ROOM I MADE A NICHE WITH THIS HOUSE NEEDED SPACE AS THERE WERE TO BE TWO WIDE LIVING SHELVES TO HOUSE THE .LOVELY OLD CHINA WHICH MOTHER'S COUSINS, THE TERRACES. ON THE EAST, A FOUNTAIN BROKE THE RAILING AND FED INTO FROB ELLS, SENT TO HER FROM ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. THERE WERE ALSO A LONG NARROW WATERWAY WHICH ENDED IN A T-SHAPED CHANNEL ABOVE TWO DECANTERS WHICH THEY SAID WERE OFTEN USED WHEN GENERAL GEORGE WHICH WAS A ROW OF COLUMNS ABOUT 100 FEET FROM THE HOUSE. WE W!'\SHINGTON AND HIS FRIENDS DROPPED IN. THE PANELS OF THE DOUBLE PLANTED RHODODENDRONS BETWEEN THE COLUMNS. OFF THE OTHER TERRACE, DOORS TO THIS DINING ROOM WERE PAINTED BY AN ARTIST FRIEND, LARRY THERE WAS TO BE AN OUTDOOR STAGE WITH DRESSING ROOMS SHAPED OUT RICHMOND. HE TOOK THE DESIGN FROM MOTHER'S ITALIAN COFFEE CUPS. OF HEDGES. THERE WAS ALSO A CARPORT FOR 12 CARS, AN APARTMENT FOR THE GARDENER'S FAMILY AND ANOTHER FOR A CHINESE COUPLE.

THE ENTRANCE HALL FOR THIS HOUSE HAD A BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE FLOOR. ON THE FAR WALL WE HAD PLANNED TO HAVE THREE LONG MIRRORS WHEN OUR TWO SONS WERE STILL YOUNG WE STARTED TO BUILD OUR IN NICHES SO THAT BLOOMING FLOWERS ON SHELVES IN FRONT WOULD BE OWN HOUSE AT 4940 SUMMIT AVENUE, IN KANSAS CITY. THIS WE KNEW REFU:CTED IN THE MIRRORS. WHEN THESE FRAMES WERE IN PLACE I SAW WOULQ TAKE SEVERAL YEARS TO COMPLETE SO FIRST WE FINISHED THE THAT THIS WAS A MISTAKE SO I PUT CLEAR GLASS IN THE CENTER PANEL IN DINING ROOM, KITCHEN,; BASEMENT AND A COUPLE OF BEDROOMS. THEN ORDER TO GIVE AN UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW OF THE BEDS OF .PINK PETUNIAS

WE HAD TO DECIDE AS TO WHETHER THE LIVING ROOM OR A SWIMMING POOL AND LAVENDER AGERA'T\JM ON EACH SIDE OF THE WATERWAYS 1 AND THE SHOULD BE FINISHED NEXT. ALL VOTES WERE FOR THE POOL. THIS, I COLUMNS BEYOND. YEARS LATER WHEN I SAW AN ULTRA MODERN HOME IN BELIEVE,WAS THE FIRST PRIVATE POOL BUILT IN KANSAS CITY. IT HAD BEEN WOODSIDE AND WAS EXPRESSING MY ADMIRATION OF IT, THE OWNER SAID, OUP. STONE QUARRY AND AFTER THAT, A NICE ABODE FOR A RIDING HORSE. "WHY, MRS. HOOK, DON'T YOU SEE WHERE WE GOT THE IDEA FOR THIS?

IT'S FROM KITTY'S HOUSE 1 OF COURSE I"

so. 51. MAC REMINGTON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GOLD LEAF ON THE CEILING IN THE TWO-STORY LIVING ROOM, AND ALSO FOR THE DETAILS OF THE BLACK OUR COURTYARD WAS DESIGNED FOR OUTDOOR LIVING AND AFFORDS AND WHITE MARBLE DINING ROOM. I SENT TO A GLASS FACTORY I KNEW ON EASY ACCESS TO BOTH THE KITCHEN AND SWIMMING POOL. IT IS PAVED THE ISLAND OF MURANO, NEAR VENICE, FOR THE GL.ASS LIGHTING FIXTURES WITH WHITE MARBLE TAKEN OUT OF THE OLD NATIONAL HOTEL IN TOPEKA, TO MATCH THESE ROOMS. KANSAS. THE OUTSIDE STAIRS, THE TERRACE AND AT-SHAPED DINING , TABLE ARE ALL MADE FROM OLD WHITE MARBLE,ALSO. THIS HOUSE IS MADE OF DISCARDED MATERIALS,RELICS OF THE PAST, TO HOUSE OUR

ITALIAN AND FRENCH TREASURES.

NOW TO RETURN TO OUR OWN HOUSE. MOST HOUSES BUlLT 11'1 1925 HAD . WHEN WE MOVED INTO THE PART THAT WAS FINISHED, THE WATER HAD A LIVING ROOM, SUN PORCH, LIBRARY, MUSIC ROOM, STUDY, BREAKFAST A DISAGREEABLE TASTE. THE BOYS SAID, "WHAT IS IT7" I SAID, "OUR ROOM, DINING ROOM, PANTRY AND ~ITCHEN ON THE FIRST FLOOR. I DE­ NEW PIPES." AND DICK SAID, "OH MOTHER, WHY DIDN'T YOU USE .Q.bQ.

CIDED TO HAVE JUST TWO ROOMS - LIVING ROOM AND DINING ROOM, BOTH PIPES"? OF THEM LARGE AND HIGH- AND A KITCHEN, OF COURSE, BUILT AROUND A

COURTYARD. THE SOU'Tli END OF THE LIVING ROOM HAS THREE STEPS GOING AT THIS POINT I AM REMINDED OF HOW THE HOOKS HAVE LIVED FOR 45 UP, THUS FORMING A STAGE WHICH HAS BEEN USED MANY TIMES FOR YEARS UNDER GUIDANCE FURNISHED BY ITALIAN MOTTOES BUILT INTO OUR AMATEUR THEATRICALS. THE GRAND PIANO IS ON ONE SIDE; BOOK SHELVES HOME. WHEN ONE ENTERS THE FRONT HALL 1 OVER THE DOOR TO THE ON THE OTHER. LIVING ROOM, IS THIS WISE QUOTATION: "LA FORTUNA FAVORISCE GLI 11 AUDACI ". THIS CAME FROM THE LATIN, "FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD. IN THE LIVING ROOM I USED A FIREPLACE WHICH HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM BUILT IN OVER A DOOR IN THE COURTYARD IS A TILE SAYING "PAX ET MY AUNT KATIE CLARKE'S HOUSE AT 1016 CENTRAL STREET, WHERE BONUM". THIS SAME MOTTO IN ITALIAN TILES IS BUILT INTO SEVERAL THERE IS NOW A FIRE STATION. CONCRETE WINDOW SILLS AND OVER DOORS AND BATH TUBS. AN ITALLJAN PLATE REMINDS US "COL CUORE CHE VINCE OGNI BATTAGLIA" (WITH

IN THE DINING ROOM 1 I USED AN ITALIAN FIREPLACE DATING FROM ABOUT HEART, WHICH WINS EVERY BATTLE). 1500, WHICH MY BROTHER-IN-LAW, GINO VEHANZJ, HAD TAKEN OUT OF AN ITALIAN HOME IN ASSISt FOR ME. THE TWO-STORY FACTORY WINDOWS 'I THE SPANIARDS FURNISHED US WITH MANY WISE PROVERBS EXPRESSED HAD ORIGINALLY USED IN THE "PINK HOUSE", I TOOK OUT AND PUT INTO ON ASH TRAYS. THESE ARE NOW SCATTERED IN THE MOUNTAIN CABffl IN THIS ROOM. THIS ROOM WHICH HAS AN ITALIAN FLAVOR,ACTUALLY HAS COLORADO, THE BEACH HOUSE IN HOPETOWN IN THE BAHAMAS, AND AT

WOODEN BEAMS FROM AN OLD RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER THE KANSAS RIVER. "OPEN HOUSE" IN THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS. THE STAIRCASE PANELING WAS TAKEN FROM AN OLD HOUSE WHICH WAS TORN DOWN TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE BELLERIVE HOTEL. THIS PANELING FROM SPAIN, I BROUGHT A LARGE BRASS "BRAZIER" WHICH ONCE WAS HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY SHINY MAHOGANY BEAMS; THESE WE STRIPPED TO THE HEATING SYSTEM OF A LARGE HOUSE IN TOLEDO. THE FUEL USED FOR THE NATURAL WOOD. THE LANTERNS WERE OUTDOOR STREET LAMPS AND HEATING IN THIS "BRAZIER" WAS GROUND UP OLIVE PITS. THIS IS NOW IN CAME FROM PERUGIA, ITALY. THE FURNITURE CAME FROM AREZZO,ITALY. OUR FRONT HALL.

WE WERE BUILDING THIS HOUSE BY DEGREES. I BECAME VERY EXCITED THERE WAS A YOUNG ARTIST IN KANSAS CITY, LARRY RICHMOND, WHO OVER USING OLD MATERIALS OUT OF RAZED BUILDINGS. WITH THE NATIVE WAS SO FAR AHEAD OF HIS TIME THAT HE WASN'T APPRECIATED. HE MADE

STONE QUARRIED OUT OF OUR OWN PLACE, WE USED SECOND HAND BRICK. OUR HOUSE INTERESTING WITH HIS MURALS. IN OUR LIVING ROOM 1 THERE

THIS WE BOUGHT FOR $6 A THOUSAND; NOW IT'S CALLED "ANTIQUE" ARE THREE DOUBLE DOORS, ABOUT NINE FEET HIGH, WITH ROUNDED TOPS. BRICK AND SELLS FOR $45.00. HE MINTED GRAY FIGURES ON THEM IN A BOTTI CELLI STYLE, IN THE FRONT HALL, HE PAINTED TWO LONG MIRRORS WITH GARDEN SCENES OF 52. 53. TWO OF MY FAVORITE ITALIAN VILLAS. DURING THAT SUMMER HE WOULD WAS A LONG DINING ROOM. THE ENTRANCE END OF THE LIVING ROOM WAS PAINT A WHILE, THEN HE'D PLAY THE PIANO, DRINK A BEER AND SWIM. A STAGE WITH CABINETS FOR COSTUMES THUS GIVING ADDED HEIGHT TO THE LARGE LIVING ROOM, IN OUR COURTYARD THERE IS AN IRON GRILL ALMOST OBSCURED BY WIS­ TERIA. THIS IS A COPY OF ONE BY THE KITCHEN DOOR OF THE CASA DEL GRECO IN TOLEDO, SPAIN, WHICH WAS COVERED WITH MORNING GLORIES. THAT HOUSE WAS DISCOVERED BY A BARON WHOM I HAD MET IN MADRID. HE RESTORED IT SO THAT IT BECAME ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING SIGHTS 1 N TOLEDO. AN IRON BALCONY, WHICH OVERLOOKS OUR COURTYARD, ONCE INSPIRED LEROY SNYDER, AT JULIA KATHERINE EDWARDS AND FRED SNYDER'S WEDDING DINNER, TO STEP OUT ON IT AND SING AN ITALIAN LOVE SONG! ONE SUMMER EVENING IN 1925; AN £NTERTAINING PERSON, TED RUST, DROPPED INTO OUR LIVES. HIS SON, TED JR., A SCULPTOR, IS NOW HEAD MOST OF OUR CHINA, INCIDENTALLY, WAS MADE IN THE OBSCURE TOWN OF THE ART INSTITUTE IN MEMPHIS. TED SR. WAS ENROUTE FROM NEW OF DERUTA, ITALY, NEAR ASSISI. YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO. WHILE IN YONKERS, HE HAD MET OUR FRIENDS THE HUSTACE HUBBARDS WHO HAD TOLD HIM TO LOOK UP THE INGHRAM THAT SUMMER WE DECIDED TO GIVE A FRENCH PLAY IN OUR COURTYARD. HOOKS IN KANSAS CITY. A FRENCHMAN BY THE NAME OF MONSIEUR BERT HAD FOUND HIS WAY TO KANSAS CITY AND EVERYONE TOOK FRENCH LESSONS FROM HIM, A GROUP TED AND MRS. VAN DEMAN, WI.FE OF A RETIRED COLONEL IN SAN OF YOUNG WOMEN MET AT OUR HOUSE EACH WEEK TO READ FRENCH PLAYS. DIEGO, HAD DECIDED TO BUY A RANCH NEAR CUBA, NEW MEXICO, BY OUR STAGE WAS AT THE END OF THE POOL. THE ACTORS ENTERED FROM AN FORMING A CLUB WHOSE ·MEMBERS WOULD BE THE OWNERS OF. THE RANCH. UPPER TERRACE ,SINGING OR SPEAKING AS THEY CAME DOWN THE WHITE TED'S ENGAGING PERSONALITY EASILY PUT THIS OVER, AND HIS ENTHUSIASM MARBLE STAIRS. THE PLAY WAS A GREAT SUCCESS AS WERE OTHER OUT­ WAS SO CONTAGIOUS WE HAD TO SEE AND JOIN THIS PLACE FOR OURSELVES. DOOR PERFORMANCES THAT WE GAVE. OUR RECREATION ROOM WAS THE AT THE RANCH WE LIVED IN TENTS AND RODE HORSEBACK. SETTING FOR INDOOR PERFORMANCES.A PLAY ESPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE TRAVELERS' AID SOCIETY WAS A PORTRAYAL OF TRAVELERS ARRIVING ONE OF THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC VISITORS WE LURED OUT THERE WAS AT THE UNION STATION. LOWELL FILLMORE, AS A PORTER BRINGING IN NELL SNEAD, EDITOR OF THE WOMAN'S PAGE OF THE KANSAS CITY STAR. ' . A BLOCK OF ICE. KEPT APPEARING IN EACH SCENE. ROARS OF LAUGHTER MOUNTED ON A WESTERN PONY SHE FITTED PERFECTLY INTO THE WILD WEST GREETED EACH APPEARANCE UNTIL THE ICE WAS ALL MELTED, So WAS SCENE. l THE AUDIENCE. I

ONCE, AS WE WERE RETURNING FROM NEW MEXICO, NELL, TED RUST JR. AND I STOPPED TO SEE THE HILL TOWN OF ACOMA, AN INDIAN VILLAGE BUILT ATOP A HILL OF ROCKS, LIKE A FORTRESS, ALL THEIR FIELDS WERE ON THE FLAT LAND BELOW, To REACH THE VILLAGE ON TOP, THE INDIANS I, I USED A LADDER THEY HAD CUT INTO THE SOLID ROCK, MAKING FOOT-HOLDS MARVIN GATES OF KANSAS CITY OWNED A FARM NEAR RAYTOWN. ON AND HAND-HOLDS FOR BOTH GROWN-UPS AND FOR CHILDREN. THERE WAS THE TOP OF A STEEP HILL WERE REMAINS OF A LONG STONE HOUSE, BARN, ALSO A DIRT ROAD TO REACH THIS PLACE. JUST AS WE STARTED TO DRIVE ,, WATER TOWER AND SERVANT'S HOUSE, HIS WIFE, MADILL, WAS FULL OF UP THIS ROAD, WE MET A CARLOAD OF MEN, FOUR PROFESSORS FROM IDEAS AND DRAMATIC INTERESTS. THEY HAD VERY BEAUTFUL FURNITURE, HARVARD. THEY HAD WANTED TO SEE THE VILLAGE BUT THERE WAS A A DINING TABLE 20 FEET LONG. THEY LOVED GARDENS. WE PUT ALL THE THREAT OF RAIN' SO THEY DECIDED NOT TO RISK GETTING STUCK IN THE MUD. STONE STRUCTURES INTO A UNIT INCLUDING TERRACE GARDENS. THERE LATER, WE WERE SORRY THEY DIDN'T MAKE THE TRIP, IT WAS SUCH AN

54. 55. UNUSUAl..L.Y UNIQUE AND INTERESTING PLACE, AND IT DIDN'T RAIN) THE ·GULF OF MEXICO, BREAKING GENTLY OVER A WIDE BEACH OF HARD

PACKED WHITE SAND 1 BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF GLIDING ALONG THE WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD A VERY SPECIAL. AFFECTION FOR NEW MEXICO BEACH OUTSIDE COLOMBO, CEYLON, IN A RICKSHAW. AND ARIZONA AND WISH THAT EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES COULD

KNOW THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY• AS PART OF "SEE AMERICA", I DROVE BACK TO KANSAS CITY AND TOLD MY FAMILY lliAT I'D BOUGHT THIS LAND IN FLORIDA. THEY WERE ALL KIND BUT HORRIFIED. I SOLD MY CATERPILL.AR STOCK IN ORDER TO PAY FOR IT. LATER WHEN THE PRICE OF CATERPILLAR STOCK WENT UP, THEY SAID, "POOR MARYI"

IN THE SPRING OF 1936 I FELT THAT I MUST GO BACK AND LOOK AT MY HURRIEDLY ACQUIRED PROPERTY IN SARASOTA. THE DAY OF THIS DECISION CHRISTMAS OF I 935, I DROVE TO BOSTON TO PICK UP OUR SON DICK I WAS ATTENDING A LECTURE AT THE A. R. ·JoNES HOME. I SAT WITH TWO AT SCHOOL., EXPECTING TO MEET INGHRAM AND EUGENE IN FLORIDA FOR FRIENDS -· BECKY RIDGE AND CATHERINE LUCAS. I SAID "I'M GOING TO ' . THE HOLIDAYS. UNFORTUNATELY, LAW AFFAIRS PREVENTED INGHRAM SLIP OUT SOON, AS I'M PREPARING TO DRIVE TO FLORIDA. HOW ABOUT FROM LEAVING KANSAS CITY. BOTH OF YOU COMING WITH ME7" THEY SAID ''WHY NOT"?, AND GOT UP AND WALKED OUT OF THE LECTURE WITH ME. WHILE SWIMMING OFF lliE LOVELY LIDO BEACH IN THE GULF OF

MEXICO, I DECIDED THAT WE MUST HAVE AN ACRE OF BEACH AND SUN­ IN LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, WE PICKED UP EMILY TOUL WHO WAS SHINE. LIDO BEACH, I FOUND OUT, WAS ALL TIED UP IN THE RINGLING HEAD OF AN EPISCOPAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. ESTATES,

IN SARASOTA WE RENTED A MOST FACINATIHG HOUSE, ACTUALLY A DICK WAS RETURNING TO BOSTON BY TRAIN AND WHILE HE WAS BUYING BOAT WHICH HAD BEEN DRAWN UP ON THE SHORE AT THE WEST END OF lliE HIS RAILROAD TICKET AT lliE FRANCKE TRAVEL AGENCY, I HAD BEEN BRIDGE WHICH CONNECTED THE MAINLAND WITH SIESTA KEY AND WAS OWNED TALKING TO A WOMAN IN THE OFFICE. I TOLD HER THAT I HAD BEEN LOOKING AND DECORATED BY A NEW YORK INTERIOR DECORATOR. FOR AN ACRE OF SHORE LAND TO BUY BUT HADN'T FOUND ONE AND NOW I

HAD MY CAR PACKED TO RETURN TO KANSAS CITY. I LEARNED LATER THAT AT SIESTA KEY, THERE WERE A FEW COTTAGES ALONG THE GULF· I WAS TALKING TO BERTHA FRANCKE, A WOMAN WHO HAD JUST RECEIVED THE GULF VIEW INN WAS VERY POPUL.AR. THE PROPER PLACE TO LIVE WAS A PRIZE FOR BEING THE BEST REALTOR IN FLORIDA. THE RESULT WAS NORTH OF TOWN. IN TtaOSE DAYS, PEOPLE WHO OWNED LARGE ESTATES ON THAT SHE SOLD ME 55 ACRES OF SIESTA KEY. THE TAMIAMI TRAIL HAD BATH HOUSES ON THE BEAUTIFUL WHITE BEACHES.

THE 55 ACRES I BOUGHT WAS COVERED WITH TREES: PALMS ,OAKS, ONE SUNDAY, IN SARASOTA, I WAS DRIVING WITH A FRIEND FROM AUSTRAl..IAN PINE AND CEDARS. IT WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS BY A KNOXVILLE AND MRS. BERTHA FRANCKE, THE REALTOR. MRS. FRANCKE WIDE BAYOU THAT HAD BEEN EXCAVATED BY THREE DEVELOPERS WHO HAD SAID, "COULD WE STOP A MOMENT TO LOOK AT A HOUSE I HAVE JUST BEEN DREAMED OF DEVELOPING IT INTO A VILLAGE. THEY HAD LAID OUT ROAIE GIVEN TO SELL7" As WE STOOD IN THE TWO-STORY LIVING ROOM I SAID WITH CONCRETE GUTTERS AND EIGHT FOOT SIDEWALKS AND A HUNDRED­ TO MY FRIEND. "YOU MUST BUY THIS." SHE SAID, "MARY, THIS HOUSE IS FOOT HIGHWAY. THEY CALLED IT WHISPERING SANDS. THIS WAS THE MADE FOR YOU, " TIME OF TOTAL COLLAPSE IN FLORIDA LAND VALUES AND THE THREE HAD

LOST IT. INGHRAM AND HIS COLLEGE FRIEND, HAROLD ICKES, HAD ALSO JUST THEN I REMEMBERED A REMARK OF INGHRAM'S, "WHY DON'T YOU BEEN CAUGHT UP IN THE ENTHUSIASM OF THE FLORIDA LAND BOOM AND SELL SOME OF THESE HOUSES YOU'VE MADE OVER AND FIND SOMETHING HAD BOUGHT SOME SWAMPLAND NEAR FORT PIERCE. WE COULD USE?" So THE HOUSE BECAME OURS. FOR NINE YEARS WE 56. 57. OWNED THIS HOUSE ON CRESCENT BEACH, WHICH WE CALLED "TIME TO A WELLKNOWN VIENNESE DESIGNER OF STAGE COSTUMES, HELLA VOGT, TIME." WE GAVE IT THIS NAME BECAUSE rNA TELEGRAM 1NGHRAM HAD WHOM WE HAD KNOWN IN NEW YORK, WROTE AND ASKED 1F SHE" COULD BE

SAID THAT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE THERE FROM "TIME TO Tl ME", THE COOK. HELLA WAS AN EXCELLENT COOK, SHE WOULD SERVE NO CANNED FOOD·, PIE OR ICE CREAM, HER DESSERTS WERE ALWAYS A DELIGHTFUL

THIS PLACE HAD ORIGINALLY BELONGED TO MR. CROSSLEY, AN INVENTOR, SURPRISE, USUALLY TOPPED WITH MOUNDS OF WHIPPED CREAM. SHE MADE THE PROPERTY RAN FROM THE GULF ACROSS THE PUBLIC ROAD TO THE BAY • WHISPERING SANDS FAMOUS ON THE WEST COAST OF FLORIDA WITH HER THERE WAS A LONG PIER ON THE BAY SIDE. MR. CROSSLEY HAD A PALATIAL VIENNESE COOKING, HOME NORTH OF TOWN, WITH A LARGE YACHT BASIN. ON SUNDAYS 11-iEY BROUGHT THEIR FRIENDS BY BOAT TO THIS PIER, THEN WALKED THROUGH WHISPERING SANDS miED HARD TO BE A LITTLE TROPICAL PARADISE. THE PAPAYA GROVE TO THE HOUSE AND BEACH. ITS WIDE BEACH OF FINE WHITE SAND WAS A JOY TO WALK OR DRIVE ON. THE ENTRANCE ROAD FOLLOWED THE BAYOU THROUGH THE PALM mEES,

MR. CROSSLEY HAD BUlL T THE HOUSE WITH SIX DRESSING ROOMS, ONE ENTERED THROUGH A CITRUS GARDEN AND THE FRONT DOOR OPENED WITH A SHOWER FOR EACH ONE, BUT BEFORE WE BOUGHT IT, THE DRESSING INTO A moPICAL COURTYARD •• BUNCHES OF BANANAS HUNG ON EACH SIDE ROOMS AND $HOWERS HAD BEEN CONVERTED INTO BEDROOMS AND BATHROOMS, OF THE DOOR • EIGHT VERY LARGE METAL ·BOWLS ON METAL BASES, KEPT IN THE KITCHEN THERE WAS A GRILLE WHERETHEY COULD BROIL A HUNDRED FILLED WITH ORANGES AND GRAPEFRUIT AND GREEN LEAVES, WERE SPREAD POUNDS OF BEEFSTEAK AT ONE TIME. ABOUT THE COURTYARD AND ADDED THEIR DECORATIVE NOTE. ONE SIDE OF THE COURTYARD OVERLOOKED THE BAYOU WHERE THERE WAS A DOCK AND

A NEIGHBOR DOWN THE BEACH WAS CISSY PATTERSON WHO OWNED THE DIVING BOARD. WASHINGTON TIMES HERALD, A FRIEND OF HERS WANTED TO RENT OUR HOUSE BUT HER NAME WAS NOT TO BE REVEALED. IT. TURNED OUT TO BE IN THE TWO-STORY DINING ROOM I DECIDED TO EJU>ERIMENT WITH A EVELYN WALSH MCLEAN OF WASHINGTON SOCIETY FAME AND OWNER OF FIREPLACE IN THE CENTER OF THE ROOM, THIS I PLACED ON A BASE OF THE HOPE DIAMOND. SHE ARRIVED WITH SIX SERVANTS. THEY BROUGHT mAVERTINE AT CHAIR HEIGHT SO 11-iAT THE GUESTS COULD SIT ON IT PINK SATIN SHEETS AND A CHINCHILLA BEDSPREAD. WITH THEIR BACKS TO THE FIRE AND DRINK COFFEE ON A CHILLY MORNING, THE MAN WHO WAS CONmACTING TO BUILD THE METAL HOOD OVER THE FIREPLACE WAS RATHER SKEPTICAL ABOUT THIS NEW IDEA. CHUCK ALWAYS LIKED TO TELL EVERYONe: 11-iAT I SAID, "WELL, HURRY AND BUILD IT SO THAT WE CAN TEAR IT DOWN IF IT1S NOT A SUCCESS I 11

ANOTHER FEATURE OF THE DINING ROOM WAS A Clmus BAR WHERE THERE WERE HOTELS FOR 11-iE WEALTHY IN FLORIDA BUT IT OCCURRED ANYONE COULD MAKE HIS OWN FRUIT JUICE. A SOLAR HEATING SYSTEM TO ME THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR PAINTERS, WRITERS AND OTHER CREATIVE SUPPLIED HOT WATER. BREAKFAST WAS SERVED IN THE ROOM, 1 F ONE SO PEOPLE. THE CARPENTERS NEEDED WORK AND OUR DICK HOOK, OUT OF DESIRED, SCHOOL, NEEDED SOMETHING TO DO, LILIAN HEDQUIST, THE NURSE WHO HAD BEEN WITH MRS. SPAETH UNTIL HER DEATH, HAD A BROTHER IN WHISPERING SANDS INN WAS SO UNLIKE A HOTEL THAT THE SAME CALIFORNIA WHO WAS ILL AND NEEDED AN OUTDOOR OCCUPATION. LILIAN'S PEOPLE KEPT COMING.t EACH WINTER FROM CANADA AND THE FROZEN BROTHER CAME ON FROM CALIFORNIA AHD SHE ALSO TELEGRAPHED A YOUNG NORTHERN STATES • ARTISTS AND WRITERS CAME, AND RETURNED YEAR PATIENT IN KANSAS CITY TELLING HIM THAT I MIGHT BUILD A HOTEL AND AFTER YEAR, AMONG THE FIRST WRITERS WHO CAME WAS WESTBROOK I • HE OUGHT TO RUN IT. THIS YOUNG MAN WAS CHUCK WEGENER, HE ALSO I ij PEGLER, WHO BROUGHT WITH HIM HIS WIFE AND CHILD, AND HIS SISTER, - HAD A FRIEND, ·JAY FINDLEY, WHO NEEDED THE FLORIDA SUNSHINE. So, WHISPERING SANDS, WITH TWO MEN TO RUN IT, EVOLVED IN 1937. I AM REMINDED HERE OF AN INCIDENT THAT OCCURRED SEVERAL YEARS

58, 59. WORLD WAR II HAD PUT BOTH OF OUR SONS IN THE AIR FORCE FOR FOUR YEARS. THE BLACKOUT IN FLORIDA WAS FINALLY LIFTED.

AFTER WHISPERING SANDS OPENED, ACCORDING TO CHUCK, HE AND HIS I HAD TI-IOUGHT OF A USE FOR THE JUNGLE WHICH WE OWNED ON THE ASSISTANT JAY FINDLEY, WERE REPAINTING THE CHIMNEY IN THE OFF­ OTHER SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY BUT AT THE END OF WORLD WAR II THERE SEASON, CHUCK . WAS ON A LADDER, AND BOTI-1 OF THEM WERE BAREFOOT WAS STILL NO LUMBER TO BE HAD. THEN I REMEMBERED MY EXPERIENCE AND SHIRTLESS, CHUCK LOOKED DOWN AT THE FLOOR, SAW TWO FEET AND IN FRANCE OF CONVERTING ARMY BARRACKS. AT AN ARMY ENCAMPMENT SAID, "THOSE FEET COULD ONLY BE THE FEET OF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT," IN NEARBY VENICE, FLORIDA, I SECURED EIGHT ARMY BARRACKS. IN AND SO IT WAS1 SHE HAD BEEN SPENDING A WEEK WITH HER RELATIVES, REMODELING THESE BARRACKS I PUT IN TWo-STORY WINDOWS AND TABLE­ THE GRAYS, SHE HAD WANTED TO GO NOWHERE AND THE GRAYS HAD RE­ HEIGHT FIREPLACES AND LARGE SUN DECKS WHICH MADE THEM VERY INTER­ SPECTED HER WISHES. BUT ON HER LAST DAY THEY HAD SAID, "WE WOULD ESTING HOUSES. ALSO LEFT OVER FROM THE WAR WERE BOLTS AND BOLTS LIKE TO SHOW YOU THE MOST BEAUTtFUL, THE WHITEST, FINEST SAND OF PARACHUTE SILK, AND THIS, WHEN DYED IN THE WASHING MACHINE, BEACH THERE IS IN THE WORLD. NEAR IT, IS AN INTERESTING LITTLE INN." MADE TI-lE CURTAINS FOR THE TALL WINDOWS, EACH HOUSE HAD ITS OWN COLOR, THEY CAME AND MRS. ROOSEVELT INSISTED UPON SEEING EVERY ROOM, SHE WAS PARTICULARLY INTRIGUED BY THE FACT THAT EACH ROOM WAS IN t 945, WE HAD SOLO HALF OF THE WHISPERING SANDS PROPERTY, DECORATED THROUGHOUT IN ONE COLOR, AND TI-IAT IS HOW WHISPERING INCLUDING THE INN, ON TI-lE THIRTY ACRES REMAINING WAS DENSE FOREST SANDS GOT INTO "MY DAY". WITH A BEAUTIFUL WHITE BEACH. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET INTO IT SO I HAD A BRIDLE PATH CUT ALONG THE BAYOU AND THE BEACH, I SHARED THIS WITH THE OUT-OF-DOOR SCHOOL RIDERS FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

IT SEEMED QUITE APPROPRIATE TO CALL THIS PLACE SANDY HOOK AS THERE WAS NOTHING BUT SAND AND HOOK. ALSO, YACHTING AT SANDY HOOK YACHTING CLUB IN NEW YORK HAD MANY PLEASANT MEMORIES FOR THE SUMMER AFTER WORLD WAR II HAD ENDED, CHUCK AND JAY (WHO ME. WERE RUNNING WHISPERING SANDS INN) AND THE HELPERS, MITCHELL AND

WILMA, HAD NO SUMMER JOBS, THE INN BEING CLOSED DURING THIS PERIOD. DESIGNED THE FIRST TWO HOUSES THAT WERE BUILT ON THIS PROPERTY. I SEARCHED THE SOUTH END OF KANSAS CITY AND FOUND A FARM JUST OFF THE FIRST ONE WAS FOR DICK HOOK AND HIS FAMILY, AND THE SECOND BLUE RIDGE DRIVE WHICH BELONGED TO A MR. ISMERT OF THE EQUITABLE ONE, THE "ROUND HOUSE", WAS BUILT FOR US. THE ROUND HOUSE, IS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, THIS FARM HAD BEEN DEVELOPED BY MR. REALLY AN OCTAGON WITH EACH PIE-SHAPED SECTION FORMING A ROOM, ISMERT'S GERMAN FATHER AND HAD BEEN SOMEWHAT OF A FAMILY COMPOUND. THE CENTER CIRCULAR SECTION SERVED AS A COAT CLOSET FOR THE THERE WERE EIGHT COTTAGES AND ONE LARGE DINING HALL AND KITCHEN, ENTRANCE HALL, A FIREPLACE AREA FOR THE LIVING ROOM, THE LITTLE THE FAMILY HAD LOST INTEREST IN THE PLACE SO I RENTED IT, AND HERE KITCHEN FOR THE DINING ROOM, AND THE TWO BATHS FOR THE TWO BED­ FOR ONE SUMMER THE BOYS PUT ON THE FAMOUS WHISPERING SANDS ROOMS. THE OUTER WALL WAS ALMOST ENTIRELY OF GLASS, GIVING A DINNERS, IT IMMEDIATELY BECAME THE MOST POPULAR PLACE IN KANSAS FEELING OF BEING OUT-OF-DOORS, WHICH WAS A BIT ADVANCED AT THE CITY TO DINE, AND WE CALLED IT "SWING HIGH". TIME. WE USED THIS HOUSE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AND ENJOYED THE WIDE DECK, BUI.L T OUT OVER THE BAYOU, WHICH WE SHARED WITH THE HERONS, DUCKS, AND THE OTHER BIRDS. THIS HOUSE IS NOW OWNED BY MISS BETTY STRAWBRIDGE.

PAUL RUDOLPH DESIGNED THE THIRD HOUSE FOR ME. PAUL AND THIS

60. 61. HOUSE WERE WIDELY PUBLICIZED. HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO ATTEMPT COMPLICATED. I HAD -BEEN WORKING FOR TWO YEAAS ON PLANS FOR- OUR BENDING PLYWOOD INTO ROUNDED ROOFS. THIS KIND OF ROOF HAS SINCE HOUSE AT SANDY HOOK. IT WAS TO B _E ON THE VERY EDGE OF THE GULf", BEEN USED FOR ALL TYPES OF BUILDINGS EVERYWHERE. ON THE BEST BEACH AT SANOY HOOK. I WANTED THIS PARTICULAR HOUSE TO HAVE ll-IE BEST OF EVERYTHING. A YOUNG ARCHITECT FROM BUDAPEST, ABOUT THIS TIME I WAS CONSIDERING USING PART OF THIS PROPERTY PETER KELETI, WAS JUST 'OPENING AN OFFICE ·IN KANSAS CITY AND WASN'T FOR A SMALL SCHOOL OF. ARCHiTECTURE. THAT SUMMER PAUL WAS TEACHING YET TOO BUSY.- HE OFFERED TO PUT THE WORKING DRAWINGS- THROUGH ARCHITECTURE IN THE SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HIS OFFICE. IT'"INAS"'}\' t;REAT-HELP, AS THE BUILDING CREW WAS O Ei.V.NDING: AND HE GAVE HIS CLASS THE SANDY HOOK ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL FOR "WHAT NEXT7" THEIR SUMMER PROJECT. I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT HE LATER USED THIS SAME PROJECT AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY. I HAD USED A FLAT ROOF FOR THE TWO-STORY HOUSE, TO MATCH THE GUEST HOUSE. PETER WANTED AN OPEN-BEAMED SLOPING ROOF, 50 WE USED HIS THE ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL DID NOT DEVELOPE BUT WE HAVE TRIED IDEA. WE PAINTED THE CEILING THE EXACT COLOR OF THE GULF, WITH niE TO MAKE SANDY HOOK A PLACE WHERE THE ORIGINAL IDEAS OF YOUNG BEAMS P.AINTED VIHITE TO RESEMBLE THE WHI'I1E -CAlf'S. THIS COLOR SCHEME ARCHITECTS MIGHT Fl NO EXPRESSION. BESIDES PAUL RUDOLPH, WE HAVE IS 50 RESTFUL IT SEEMS TO HAVE A SOOll-!ING EFFECT ON EVERYONE WHO HOUSES BY RALPH TWITCHELL, JIM SIEBERT, VICTOR LUNDY AND FRANK STEPS INTO THE HOUSE. FULSOM SMITH. .THE ENTRANCE TO BOTH ll-IE MAIN HOUSE AND THE GUEST HOUSE IS

I HAD SEEN THE FIRST ALL GLASS APARTMENT BUILDING IN CHICAGO, THROUGH A SCREENED GARDEN, CALLED A "CAGE" IN FLORIDA. THIS GARDEN DESIGNED BY MIES VANDER ROHE WHO HAD ACHIEVED FAME FOR HIS WAS DESIGNED BY A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, LORING (BUD) RAOUL,JR. UNUSUAL DESIGNS. WHAT IMPRESSED ME MOST ABOUT HIS BUILDING WAS BUD RAOUL ALSO DESIGNED FOR ME ll-IE GARDEN, COURTYARD AND OUT­ THAT ALL OF THE STEEL CONSTRUCTION WAS ON THE OUTSIDE. DOOR CHAPEL AT ST.BONIFACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH ON SIESTA KEY, IN SARASOTA. THE CHAPEL AND GARDEN WERE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT "GLASS HOUSES" DENY THE OCCUPANTS OF ANY OF MY MOTHER WHO, WITH THE HELP OF COLERIDGE SMITl-1, FAiniFULLY, PRIVACY IF THEY ARE LOCATED ON A CITY BOULEVARD BUT WHEN THEY TENDED THE GARDEN AT GRACE AND HOLY TRINITY CAniEDRAL IN KANSAS COMMAND A BREATHTAKING VIEW, LiKE THE GULF OF MEXICO, THEY CAN CITY FOR MANY YEARS. BE VERY PLEASANT. I ONCE THOUGHT THAT THE WATER AROUND THE GRECIAN ISLANDS ,AS

MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN USING ALL GLASS WAS WHEN WE BUILT OUR SEEN FROM A PLANE, WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BLUE IN THE WHOLE GUEST HOUSE AT SANDY HOOK. IT WAS SQUARE, 30' BY 30' WITH THE WORLD. BUT THE ATLANTIC 0CEAN,WHICH RINGS THE TINY ISLAND OF HOPE SECOND STORY, ALSO SQUARE, SET AT A 90 DEGREE ANGLE TO THE LOWER TOWN, IN THE BAHAMAS, HAS A BLUE WHICH IS UNBELIEVABLE. FLOOR. As AN EX PERl MENT, I USED FIBERGLASS FOR THE FIRST Tl ME ON THE FLOOR AND WALLS OF A SHOWER ROOM • IT WAS PAULINE 01 ERKS WHO TOLD US OF THIS LIT"Tl..E PLACE OFF niE ISLAND OF ABACO. To REACH HOPE TOWN, YOU TAKE A PLANE FROM WEST PALM BEACH TO ABACO, THEN A SMALL BOAT WHICH WILL LAND YOU ON LIVING A VERY ACTIVE LIFE IN KANSAS CITY, AND HAVING A HUSBAND DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW, MADE OPERATIONS IN FLORIDA THE 8NGLISH GOVERNMENT PIER AN HOUR AND A HALF LATER.

THERE ARE NO AUTOMOBILES IN HOPE TOWN SO EVERYONE WALKS. THE HOUSES ARE BUILT IN TWO ROWS, FACING A CONCRETE WALK. OUR VERY FIRST MORNING THERE, A REAL ESTATE AGENT HAD SHOWN US A HOUSE BUT HE HAD NO KEY SO WE COULDN'T GO INSIDE. WE BOUGHT THIS LITTLE UN- 62. FURNISHED BAHAMAN HOUSE, FACING THE WALKWAY NEXT TO THE METHODIST

CHURCH, WITHOUT EVER SEEING THE INSIDE; THE AGENT PROMISED THAT THE FURNISHINGS WOULD BE REMOVED. HOWEVER, WHEN WE FINALLY TOOK POS­

SESSION, WE DISCOVERED TO OUR SURPRISE NOT ONLY THAT THE HOUSE WAS -ONE DAY WE LUNCHED, AS EVERYONE DOES, IN THE TIVOLI GARDENS. FIL!-ED WITH FURNITURE BUT ALSO THAT THERE WAS A LARGE ROWBOAT IN THE BAY WAS COOL SO WE -WENT RELUCTANTLY INDOORS. WHEN WE CAME

THE LIVING ROOfv1! ULTIMATELY, WE MOVED THE HOUSE, BY HAND, UP THE ONTO THE PORCH AFTER LUNCH EVERY TABLE WAS OCCUPIED. OVERHEAD SLOPE BEHIND IT AND TURNED.IT SO THAT WE HAD A VIEW OF BOTH THE OCEAN ELECTRIC HEAlERS SUPPLIED HEAT FOR THE DINERS. THIS I HAVEN'T AND THE BAY. WE ADDED FOUR PORCHES TO THE HOUSE; THE FRONT ONE SEEt-1 IN THE UNITED STATES. ONE OF MY GREAT REGRETS IS THAT OVERLOOKED THE OCEAN, THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE ~S THROUGH AMERICANS CARE SO Llrrt.E ABOUT DINING IN THE OPEN. IN FACT. KANSAS ANOTHER ONE, THE BACK PORCH WAS MY BEDROOM AND THE FOURTH ONE WE CITY HAS . A LAW AGAINST DINING ON THE SIDEWALK. AIR CONDITIONING USED AS A DINING ROOM. WE BUILT AN OUTDOOR GRILL WHERE, AT ONE END, WILL NEVER LURE THE HOOKS INSIDE FOR DINING. WE COULD COOK STEAKS AND THE OTHER END PROVIDED STORAGE FOR WOOD. WHILE THE CEMENT WAS STILL WET WE WROTE.IN IT "EST, EST, EST." (IT IS, IT IS, IT IS.) BECAUSE WE AGREED THAT "THIS IS THE PLACE". THERE NEVER WAS A LOVLIER BEACH OR BLUER OCEAN.

WE THEN WENT TO ROME AND ASSISI TO SEE THE VENANZIS AND THEIR FRIENDS. THE LAW 1-5 A HARD TASKMASTER WHICH DREW INGHRAM .BACK TO KANSAS CITY. I STAYED ON, HOWEVER, AND BERTHA AND I TOOK OFF FOR GREECE AND ISTANBUL. MISS NICHOLS, A FRIEND OF BERTHA'S, ~HO WAS

ONE SUMMER INGHRAM AND I WENT TO AMSTERDAM AND COPENHAGEN. THE DIRECTOR OF A LARGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN ATHENS, !:fAD S .. EN"'' .HER

THE SUNDAY WE ARRIVED IN AMSTERDAM, IT SEEMED AS IF THE ENTIRE CHRISTMAS VACATIONS WITH THE VENANZIS IN ASSISI AND ROME AND SHE POPULATION WAS ON BICYCLES, HEADING FOR THE AIRPORT. PAPA WITH INSISTED UPON LENDING. US HER CAR AND OUTLINING TWO TRIPS FOR US TO ONE CHILD RIDING BEHIND HIM, MAMA WITH ANOTHER BEHIND HER. WE HER FAVORITE SPOTS IN GREECE. IT WAS A PERFECT PLAN AND MOST LEARNED THAT AT THE AIRPORT THEY FOUND A RESTAURANT FOR SUNDAY FORTUNATE FOR US. DINNER FOR ALL AND A GREAT PLAYGROUND FOR THE CHILDREN.

I REMEMBER ONE INCIDENT WHICH MADE US PROUD AMERICANS. MISS . EVERY DAY DOWNTOWN HUNDREDS OF BICYCLES WERE PARKED IN THE NICHOLS HAD FOUND A DRIV.ER FOR US WHO, SHE SAID, SPOKE S.OME SHOPPING DISTRICT. ALSO HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE WALKING. THE ENGLISH BUT WE SOON DISCOVERED HE HAD ONLY ONE EXPRESSION! AS WE DUTCHMAN'S AMBITION IS NOT TO OWN A MOTOR CAR BUT TO HAVE A BOAT WOUHD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, SEEING AN OCCASIONAL DONKEY LED BY AND A BICYCLE. A WOMAN ON FOOT, AND USING A STICK FOR A CANE AND WHIP, I SAID,

11 "WHAT A MARVELOUS ROAD I SMILING, HE SAID 1 "MARSHALL PLAN!" I THE DAY OF THE DUTCH WINDMILL WAS OVER. ONE LARGE ONE WAS SAID, "BUT SO DANGEROUS", POINTING TO THE BDGE OF THE HIGHWAY LEFT, JUST FOR THE TOURISTS. WHERE A CAR COULD DROP THOUSANDS OF FE;ET. HE SAID, "No MARSHALL PLAN I". MY SECRETARY, RENA JoNATHAN, KNows GENERAL MARSHALL's.

COPENHAGEN WAS A FASCINATri'IG PLACE. WE WONDERED FROM WHOM SON-IN-LAW SO I HOPE HE WILL SOMETIME READ THIS REAL APPRECIATION THESE PEOPLE HAD INHERITED THEIR SENSE OF DESIGN AND COMBINATION OF HIS FATHER-IN-LAW'S WISDOM! OF COLORS, BOTH INSIDE THEIR HOUSES AND IN THE EXQUISITE BLOOMS IN THEIR GARDENS.

64. 65. NoW,IN 1970,0UR DAYS ARE DIVIDED BETWEEN OUR HOUSE IN KANSAS WELLESLEY COLLEGE BY THE HONEYWELL FAMILY. MY IDEA WOULD BE TO CITY AND OUR NEW CONDOMINIUM IN SARASOTA. FLORIDA. FLORIDA IS MAKE AN ITALIAN GARDEN ON THE LAKE FRONT TO COMPLEMENT" THE ITALIAN WELL SPRINKLED WITH CONDOMINIUMS THESE DAYS BUT WE FEEL OUR TWO­ GARDEN OF THE HONEYWELLS WHICH ALSO FACES ON THIS SAME LAKE STORY UNIT, DESIGNED BY FRANK FOLSOM SMITH, IS SOMETHING SPECIAL. WABAN. BACK OF THIS WOULD BE PREFABRICATED HOUSES (THAT, BECAUSE IT IS VERY COMPACT BUT INCLUDES TWO OPEN-AIR COURTYARDS, THREE OF THEIR SIMPLE INEXPENSIVE CONSTRUCTION COULD BE REPLACED, IF OUTS I DE DECKS, LIVING ROOM WITH FIREPLACE, FOUR .BEDROOMS AND FOUR DESIRED, WITH NEWER VERSIONS, IN TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS), WHICH WOULD BATHS• SLIDING GLASS WINDOW-DOORS OPEN ONTO THE EAST AND WEST FORM INNER COlRTYAFDS WITH TROPICAL PLANTINGS. THE WATER FROM THE DECKS AND THE LIVING ROOM DECK OVERHANGS A LAKE OF SPARKLING WATER. LAKE WOULD BE UTILIZED FOR FOUNTAINS, SWIMMING POOL, SKATING ONLY A FEW MINUTES WALK AWAY ON THE OntER SIDE, IS A PRIVATE COVE RINK, AND A "WATER CURTAIN" FOR A GREAT OUTDOOR THEATRE, AND ON THE GULF OF MEXICO WITH ntE SAME WHITE SANDY BEACH THAT HAS THEN RETURN, THROUGH CASCADES, TO THE LAKE. MADE OUR SIESTA KEY FAMOUS. I I HAVE DERIVED AND AM DERIVING GREAT PLEASURE IN PLANNING Now THAT I AM BLIND, I SPEND MY DAYS LISTENING TO THE WONDER­ OTHER PROJECTS, INCLUDING A MODERN TOWN IN WESTERN KANSAS WITH FUL RECORDINGS OF BOOKS SUPPLIED AND SENT OUT TO THE BLIND BY THE A PARK COMPLETE WITH PRAIRIE DOGS AND TUMB,_EWEED, AND MAKING GOVERNMENT. THE WAKING HOURS OF MY NIGHTS-. I SPEND ON IMAGINATIVE OVER THE PARK IN JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS, WITH SUN FLOWERS AND

DESIGNS. AMONG OTHER THINGS, I HAVE EVEN LOCATED AND PLANNED A NEW .-;. VARIOUS WILD FLOWERS • CAPITAL FOR FRANCE! AND, TOO, I HAVE PLANNED CHANGES AT THE WHITE HOUSE; THESE CONSIST OF A NEW TWO-STORY WING SURROUNDING AN ITALIAN GARDEN DESIGNED FOR OUTDOOR ENTERTAINING. THE TWO-STORY WING WOULD HAVE VERY MODERN ., VERY AMERICAN GUEST SUITES OVER- LOOKING THE GARDEN, FOR V .I • .P.s IT WOULD CONNECT AT THE FURTHER END WITH A POSSIBLE, WHOLE NEW WHITE HOUSE DONE ·IN WHITE MARBLE I AND SO WE COME TO ntE END OF THE ACCOUNT, TO DATE, OF SOME OF AND GLASS, THE OLD BUILDING TO BE KEPT AS AN HISTORIC "NATIONAL THE THIS-ES AND THE THAT-S OF ONE WOMAN'S EXPERIENCES. I HOPE YOU

TREASURE". IN THE GARDEN WOULD BE A LARGE PAVED AREA FOR RECEIVING WILL ENJOY THE READING OF THEM AS MUCH AS I HAVE ENJOYED t AND GUESTS AND BEYOND THAT WOULD BE A SMALL GREEK THEATRE. AN OUT­ CONTINUE TO ENJOY, ntE LIVING OF THEM. DOOR KITCHEN WOULD BE PROVIDED FOR BARBECUES AND "AL FRESCO" DINING; THIS AREA WOULD OPEN INTO A TWO-STORY HIGH GREEN HOUSE WITH TROPICAL PLANTS AND TREES AND WITH TABLES AND CHAIRS TO ACCOMODATE THE GUESTS IN CASE OF SUDDEN RAIN. WE ARE GLAD TO LEARN THAT A COMMITTEE HAS BEEN APOINTED TO CONSIDER CHANGES AT THE WHITE HOUSE. I NOTICED THAT MRS. CLARE BOOnt LUCE IS ON THE COMMIITEE. THIS RECALLS THE FACT THAT WHEN SHE WAS OUR AMBASSADOR TO ITALY, MY SISTER BERTHA HAD LENT MRS. LUCE HER HOUSE IN ASSISI ON THE OCCASION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF SANTA CHIARA. IN GRATITUDE TO

MY SISTER, MRS. LUCE SENT HER A VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK OF PHOTO­ GRAPHS SHE HAD MADE OF MY SISTER'S HOUSE AND GARDEN.

ANOTHER FAVORITE PROJECT OF MY IMAGINATION IS AN ALL YEAR ROUND SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOR THE COMBINED USE OF WELLESLEY AND M.I.T.TOBE BUILT ON THE NINETY ACRES OF LAKE FRONT PROPERTY GIVEN

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