Monumental Dreams: The Life and Sculpture of Ann Norton

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177 Notes Abbreviations ABC Ade Bethune Collection, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minn. ANSG Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Fla. DLM Doy Leale McCall Collection, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala. NMA Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. SPB Selma-Dallas County Public Library, Selma, Ala. Prologue Information about old Cahawba comes from “Explore Old Cahawba” and walking -tour brochures published by the Alabama Historical Commission. Details about the heyday of the city of Cahawba in the mid-nineteenth century can be found in a wonderful memoir of the period, Memories of Old Cahaba (its old spelling), by Anna M. Gayle Fry (Nashville, Tenn., Dallas, Tex.: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1908). Chapter 1. The Origins of a Great Alabama Family Much of the information in this chapter comes from family papers, books, and newspapers in the Selma-Dallas County Public Library (SPB); from the private collections of Edith Weaver Haney and Lane Weaver Byrd; and from author’s interviews with Rosalind Tarver Lipscomb, Bobby Willis, John Lott, and John P. C. McCall. From its veranda] Author interview with Jean Martin, curator, Old Depot Museum, Selma, October 27, 2010. A rare photograph of Philip Weaver’s Selma house can be seen in the Old Depot Museum. On April 2, 1865] Rose Pettus Weaver diary, DLM. John P. C. McCall private collection. 178 · Notes to Pages 9–19 Since Philip Weaver had the best house] Mentioned in Reuben Vaughan Kidd: Soldier of the Confederacy, by Alice V. D. Pierrepont (Petersberg, Va.: Violet Bank, 1947), 373. Ann’s paternal great-grandfather] The story of his heroic resistance is published in the centennial edition of the Selma Times-Journal, November 2, 1927, SPB; also author interview with Edith Weaver Haney, March 16, 2013. Emerald Place] Now demolished. William Weaver’s major contribution] Longtime Selma residents are full of stories about this fabled house and its ghosts. Abandoned for over twenty-five years, the Castle has recently been bought and is being restored. With the help of imported German workmen] Author interview with Erin Vaughan Morris, Selma, October 27, 2010. William installed several unusual features] Rose Pettus Weaver diary, John P. C. McCall private collection. as a memorial book said of him] Paul Turner Vaughan Memorial Book (Nashville , Tenn., Dallas, Tex.: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1919), SPB. Chapter 2. Childhood in Selma Much of the information in this chapter comes from the catalogue written in 1980 by C. Reynolds Brown for an exhibition of Clara Weaver Parrish’s work at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama. Other references include Christine Crafts Neal, “Daughters of the South,” Alabama Heritage 21 (Summer 1991): 6–19; and William U. Eiland, Ann Weaver Norton: Sculptor (ANSG: 2000). Sturdivant Hall in Selma contains an archive of Clara Weaver Parrish’s papers, as well as artwork by the artist and furniture that belonged to her. A lovely portrait] Now in Sturdivant Hall. According to several Vaughan cousins] Author conversation with Edith Weaver Haney. Ms. Haney also found out that her great-grandfather, Henry Vaughan, inherited a trust fund worth $20 million from his father Dr. Samuel W. Vaughan, a major beneficiary of which is the Vaughan Regional Health Center in Selma. Ann later told Jerry Tallmer] Jerry Tallmer, “A Tiny Woman Who Shapes Big Visions,” New York Post, March 4, 1978, 6. A clue as to Clara’s influence] Unpublished memoir by Henry A. Vaughan. According to Rosalind Tarver Lipscomb] Author interview with Rosalind Tarver Lipscomb, October 26, 2010. In 1922, while in Paris] Letter from Clara Weaver Parrish to her nephew William . Edith Weaver Haney, private collection. The Weavers were of course all deeply interested] A copy of Clara Weaver Parrish’s will is in the archive at Sturdivant Hall in Selma. Notes to Pages 22–37 · 179 Chapter 3. Early Success She did well there] Information about Ann Weaver Norton’s career at Smith comes from author correspondence with Deborah A. Richards, Smith College Archives, Northampton, Mass. Frawg, Boochy’s Wings, and Pappy King] Originals of Annie Vaughan Weaver’s three children’s books are housed with Edith Weaver Haney’s private collection. That is the writing of someone who had been there] Mary Ann Patterson, the granddaughter of a close friend and neighbor of the Weaver family, remembered hearing the story of how Annie Vaughan and her brother would go with their...