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...summer day in 1899, a private banker named Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina were walking through the expensive wildwood of their big country estate, Yaddo, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Suddenly Katrina stopped, listened, raised her hands "as if in appeal to that Something which was too vast for me to define." Few moments later she said with dreamy excitement: "Here will be a perpetual series of house parties-of literary men, literary women, and other artists. . . . At Yaddo they will find the Sacred Fire, and light their torches at its flame. Look, Spencer! They are walking...
Creating at Yaddo last week, at mid-season of the colony's twelfth year, was a typical group of writers and artists who have given substance to Katrina Trask's vision. But whether or not they fitted Katrina's romantic conception was an open question. By contrast with aristocratic Katrina and the elegant capitalistic surroundings she provided, most of the season's 27 guests stood out in striking left-wing contrast: Poet Kenneth Fearing (Angel Arms, Poems), Critic Newton Arvin (Hawthorne), Novelists Joseph Vogel (At Madame Bonnard's), Leonard Ehrlich (God's Angry...
...show places of the U. S., Yaddo is a 500-acre estate with pine groves, vast lawns, artificial lakes with ducks, famous rose gardens, white marble fountains. The name Yaddo was a baby pronunciation given by the Trask children (all four of whom died in childhood) to The Shadows, a famous inn formerly on the site of the Trask estate, where the Trasks had spent their summers. It was one of the dozen places where Poe was supposed to have written The Raven, and Katrina Trask said it inspired her own poetry. At the centre of the estate...
Died. George Foster Peabody, 85, philanthropist and educator, trustee of Warm Springs Foundation, owner of "Yaddo," retreat for artists & authors at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; of heart disease in Warm Springs, Ga. In 25 years with Manhattan's Spencer Trask & Co. he built up a huge fortune. Said he: "But when I came to see in 1906 that the money which I had amassed was the work of others, I then and there decided to retire from business and become my own executor, to administer for the people that which rightfully belonged to them...
...married Mrs. Trask. At her death the next year he gave his Saratoga home to the State as a Katrina Peabody memorial. He incorporated the Trask estate, "Yaddo," as a philanthropic institution. There at no cost may come writers, musicians, sculptors and painters for six-month periods. Executive director of "Yaddo" is Mrs. John Carroll Ames. Mrs. Marjorie Peabody Waite (adopted daughter), Allena G. Pardee (secretary) and Mr. Peabody also live there. "Yaddo's" 490 acres, assessed at $175,000, pay no taxes...