Oral History Interview with Katharine Green, 1975


Summary Information
Title: Oral History Interview with Katharine Green
Inclusive Dates: 1975

Creator:
  • Green, Katharine
Call Number: Tape 632A

Quantity: 3 tape recordings (142 min.)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
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 1920s.

Language: English

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Acquisition Information

Accession Number: M75-120

Contents List
Tape/Side   1/1
Time   0:00 - 10:00
Origins and organizing of the experiment
Tape/Side   1/1
Time   10:00 - 15:00
Members of the group
Tape/Side   1/1
Time   15:00 - end
Daily activities, including Jean Toomer's role, Margery Latimer's participation, and Katharine Green's role
Tape/Side   1/2
Time   0:00 - 5:00
Visitors to the group
Tape/Side   1/2
Time   5:00 - 10:00
Jean Toomer's lectures in Portage,
Tape/Side   1/2
Time   10:00 - 15:00
Portage's reactions to Toomer and Georgi Gurdjieff's philosophy
Tape/Side   1/2
Time   15:00 - end
The Gurdjieffian psychological method and its benefits for Katharine Green
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   0:00 - 2:00
Katherine Green's sisters reactions to Jean Toomer
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   2:00 - 6:00
Katharine Green's meeting with Gurdjieff in Chicago,
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   6:00 - 10:00
Margery Latimer and Jean Toomer's meeting and love affair
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   10:00 - 15:00
Jean Toomer's work with Margery Latimer's emotions
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   15:00 - 18:00
Katharine Green, her husband, and the benefits of the Gurdjieffian system
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   18:00 - 23:00
The press scandal re Jean Toomer's race, with Portage's reaction
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   23:00 - 28:00
Margery Latimer's death
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   28:00 - 30:00
Toomer's stay in Portage, , after Latimer's death, and their relationship with Zona Gale
Tape/Side   2/1
Time   30:00 - end
Comments on Toomer's unpublished book “Portage Potentials” about the experiment
Tape/Side   2/2
Time   0:00 - 6:00
Toomer's Gurdjieffian and literary careers
Tape/Side   2/2
Time   6:00 - 16:00
Toomer after leaving Portage, during late 1930s
Tape/Side   2/2
Time   16:00 - 20:00
Toomer's book Essentials, and other Gurdjieffian works
Tape/Side   2/2
Time   20:00 - 21:00
Katharine Green's assessment of the impact of Gurdjieff on her life
Tape/Side   2/2
Time   21:00 - 25:00
Gurdjieff's influence on Margery Latimer
Tape/Side   2/2
Time   25:00 - end
Katharine Green's summing up of the experiment and Portage's reaction to it
Tape/Side   3/1
Time   0:00 - 10:00
Reminiscences about William Maxwell, novelist and New Yorker editor, who summered at Katharine Green's farm, “Bonnie Oaks” during the