6/12/2023 0 Comments Joseph lash eleanor and franklinHelen eagerly explored Eleanor Roosevelt’s face with her fingers and read her lips. Roosevelt was visiting friends, and Kit Cornell invited everyone for tea. Helen took time off to visit Kit at Martha’s Vineyard. In it, he describes how this photo came to be: A little more than two decades after this photo was taken, Lash would undertake a biography of Keller ( Helen and Teacher) using the AFB Helen Keller Archive. The man on the far left is author Joseph Lash to his right, in order, stand his wife, Trude Wenzel Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Katharine Cornell, David Levy, Polly Thomson, and Adele Levy. The setting was Chip Chop, a sprawling compound owned by the married actors Katharine Cornell (known to friends as Kit) and Guthrie McClintic, and a few photos were taken to mark the occasion. On a late summer’s day in 1954 a group of friends gathered in Martha’s Vineyard for tea and conversation. Seen left to right are Joseph Lash, Trude Wenzel Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Katharine Cornell, David Levy, Polly Thomson, and Adele Levy, 1954.
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