LILI
father’s family, mother’s family in New Orleans, sisterly hijinks, parent’s wedding, St. Timothy’s, visiting Liz Claiborne, Henry Rowland and Rowland House
visits to Rowland House, the glorious Aunt Harriet, childhood in Rochester NY, family vacations
St. Timothy’s, Ann Stranahan, Smith College, Leonard Baskin, woodcut printing, MFA, sculptural work, Lili’s favorite, loss of stored artwork
studio spaces: Occom Ridge, Three Mile Road, a bit about both houses, Lili’s large-scale drawings and exhibiting at Dartmouth
AVA Gallery origin story, early years, the Lebanon building, studio space with neighbors: Aya Itigaki and Clifford West
friendship with Anne Crile Esselstyn, travels with Smith friends, mapmaking in Boston, difficulty with words: reading, Cambridge life
Harvard Street, Museum School, Rowland family, father’s personality, more about travels with Smith friends, Cleveland
New Haven, Cleveland, Whitney Avenue, motorcycle and sidecar, motherhood, secretarial school, Rowland as a baby
Lili, the reluctant cook, Museum School, difficulty with words: public speaking, playing the flute and Lili’s love of classical music
being a modern artist at Kendal, Two Rivers, joking around about Effie’s oatcakes, Lois Hauck
Emmabelle Egbert, AVA personalities and changes
Bente and the new building, Winkie Kelsey and Camp [Kiawah?] on Lake Winnipesaukee,
working through more AVA names and events, difficult artists and difficult critics, complicated feelings about artwork, collected and lost.
motherhood, friendships
thoughts about being an artist, what to do with her art (collage!) and the hows and whys around organizing it or recording it
