| 1881/00/00 |
Katrina Nichols Trask |
Home |
Financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, a writer, acquire an estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. |
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| 1893/00/00 |
William Halsey Wood |
Architect |
The home of financier Spencer Trask and his wife Katrina, a writer, burns down. They soon employ William H Wood to design a new Queen Anne Revival Mansion. |
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| 1900/00/00 |
Katrina Nichols Trask |
Benefactor |
Spencer and his Katrina Trask donate their fortune and estate to establish the Corporation of Yaddoa intending that Yaddo be a sanctuary for artists both men and women, few in number but chosen for their creative gifts. |
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| 1921/05/00 |
George Foster Peabody |
Home |
Newlyweds Katrina and George Peabody live at Yaddo. |
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| 1926/00/00 |
George Foster Peabody |
Benefactor |
George Foster Peabody, Spencer's business partner and Katrina's second husband, and Elizabeth Ames, Yaddo's first executive director, welcome the first group of artist to Yaddo. |
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| 1934/07/00 |
John Cheever |
Home |
Cheever spends the summer of 1934 at the Yaddo artist's colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. |
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| 1948/03/00 |
Truman Capote |
Life |
Truman Capote provides a recommendation for Patricia Highsmith to be accepted at Yaddo, where a writer with 'unconventional inclinations' can avoid the prejudice of mainstream society. |
Strangers on a Train (book) |
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| 1948/05/00 |
Chester Himes |
Life |
Chester Himes arrives at the Yaddo artists' community, where he will stay and create until June 1948. |
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| 1948/05/10 |
Patricia Highsmith |
Author |
Patricia Highsmith arrives at Yaddo, an artist retreat in upstate New York where she will find its director, Elizabeth Ames, "a strange, creepy sort of woman, silent and sinister like Mrs Danvers in Rebecca." |
Strangers on a Train (book) |
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| 1948/05/12 |
Flannery O'Connor |
Life |
Flannery O'Connor declines the invitation to get drunk with Patricia Highsmith. |
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| 1948/05/12 |
Patricia Highsmith |
Life |
At Yaddo, Patricia Highsmith challenges Flannery O'Connor, Chester Himes and Marc Brandel to consume 10 Martinis and Manhattans. Highsmith will end up with a 48 hour hangover. |
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Martini |
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| 1948/05/12 |
Chester Himes |
Life |
Marc Brandel and Chester Himes toss back a few Martinis and Manhattans Patricia Highsmith. |
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Manhattan (cocktail) |
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| 1948/06/00 |
Patricia Highsmith |
Author |
Patricia Highsmith writes a rough draft of "Strangers on a Train" during a two month stay at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. |
Strangers on a Train (book) |
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| 1959/10/00 |
Silvia Plath |
Guest |
Plath and Hughes sojourn at the Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York State in late 1959. |
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| 1959/10/00 |
Ted Hughes |
Guest |
Plath and Hughes sojourn at the Yaddo artist colony in Saratoga Springs, New York State in late 1959. |
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| 1995/03/00 |
Patricia Highsmith |
Benefactor |
Patricia Highsmith wills her estate, worth an estimated $3 million, and any future royalties to the Yaddo colony in New York State. |
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