Oral history interview with Katharine Green [sound recording], 1975.

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Oral history interview with Katharine Green [sound recording], 1975.

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Tape-recorded interview, March 21 and 22, 1975, by historian Robert C. Twombly with Katharine Green, Briggsville, Wisconsin, concerning the Gurdjieffian psychological method at a 1931 communal living experiment near Portage, Wis., and the city's reactions to the method, other participants including writers Jean Toomer and Margery Latimer and her later contacts with them, and the method's effect on her life; plus her reminiscences of William Maxwell, novelist and New Yorker editor, who summered at Green's farm in the late 1920's.

3 tape recordings (142 min.)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967

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Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles ...

Green, Katherine Sobba, 1949-

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Latimer, Margery, 1899-1932

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Maxwell, William, 1908-2000

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Twombly, Robert C.

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Gurdjieff, Georges Ivanovitch, 1872-1949

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