Archive – Lathrop Brown

• Lathrop Brown, Long After Harvard

  [For this this issue we’re delighted to have Pam Canfield Grossman, Lathrop Brown’s granddaughter, as guest author. – Eds.] Questions about my grandfather Lathrop Brown and his life after Harvard…

• The Ghost of Lathrop Brown?

  As the Cambridge air has turned cool, we’ve begun to notice that strange things are afoot in the Suite. Haunting melodies of ragtime are floating in the air, and occasionally…

• Lathrop’s Desk

  “The rooms look as if struck by sheet lightning, the sitting-room having the chairs and tables but no curtains or carpets. The bed is in place in my room and…

• Project Lathrop Brown

  I was sitting in the Suite a few weeks ago, looking around, and I must admit to being quite impressed. With furniture mostly in place, pictures on the walls, mementos…

• Lathrop Brown and FDR: Epilogue

  Long before I had ever heard of the FDR Suite, I’d visited an absolutely spectacular spot on California’s coast. Located along Highway 1, just south of Big Sur, the Julia…

• Lathrop Brown and FDR: Endgame

  (This is the fifth and final installment in a continuing series taken from the unpublished notes of filmmaker Pare Lorentz. For the introduction to these articles, click HERE.) The Lathrop…