Oral History Interview with Katharine Green, 1975

Contents List

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Tape/Side   1/1
Time   0:00 - 10:00
Origins and organizing of the experiment
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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Comments on Toomer's unpublished book “Portage Potentials” about the experiment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