Tag: Yaddo

• The Shadows We Leave

  What a strange mix of altruistic and puritanical compulsion. Spencer Trask made his fortune on Wall Street betting on the future–the future of transportation (railroads), news (he saved the New York Times from bankruptcy) and light (he invested heavily in Thomas Edison’s works). Yet the idea of gamblers roaming the streets of Saratoga Springs in…

  Adrienne Morris

  September 24, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, Men, United States History

  19th century mansion, 2014 Yaddo Tour, Art, casinos, Gambling, Gilded Age, life and death, philanthropic rich people, Robber Barons, sin, Spencer Trask, Yaddo

• A Case For Yaddo/ A Gift From The Trasks

  Adrienne Morris

  July 26, 2014

  inspirational, Men, Moving Pictures, Uncategorized, United States History, Writing

  Art, artists retreat, katrina Trask, Saratoga, Spencer Trask, Yaddo

• Mary sighting–1910

  I’m pretty sure Mrs. Trask was just thinking about her poetry or the tragic deaths of her four children, but I’ve always wanted a Mary sighting–or a Jesus sighting or just plain God. I’d settle for an angel even. All I get are nightmares about devils knocking at my window.

  Adrienne Morris

  July 3, 2013

  Beautiful Images

  a room of one’s own, angels and demons, Old Photography, Poetry, spirituality, Yaddo