Interviewees: Anne Goodell Lathrop (Sally Nimick also present)
Date of Birth/age at inteview: Anne: 1902/83
Interviewer: Rita Durrant
Interview date: November 4, 1985
Interview location: Lathrop home at Phillips Mill
Interview length: 55 minutes
Time span discussed: 1920s – 1930s
Summary: Anne married William Lathrop’s son, Julian, in 1931. Anne and Sally were clearly lifelong friends from the 1920’s. Both of them studied art early, Anne with Daniel Garber and Sally at the Holmquist School, possibly with John Follinsbee. The interview covers various personalities of the art colony, social life of the 20s and 30s, the history of Phillips Mill area, and a review of the fear that various unchecked diseases like polio and scarlet fever brought to families.
Time markers:
04:30 – real interview begins
05:50 – Daniel Garber, Phillips’ Mill exhibitions
10:20 – Lathrop family roots
12:00 – Dr. George Marshall
14:40 – Edward Redfield/William Lathrop ‘non’ relationship
27:00 – George Nakashima stories
30:30 – social life, Prohibition stills in New Jersey
34:30 – Phillips Mill area history
35:00 – Holmquist School
39:20 – diseases’ effects on life
43:00 – Depression’s effect on artist’s life
51:40 – Garber’s Cuttaloosa farm for sale at $100,000
