Box 131
Container
Contains 60 Results:
LOUIS RIBAK, January 1980
File — Box: 131, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
6 typed pages. Louis, and his wife, Bea Mandelman, were well-known Taos painters since the 1940s. They became my friends soon after I arrived in 1969. Louis and Bea were best friends of Stephanie Sonora, my partner during the mid-1970s. A description of Louis' life and death appears in my non-fiction book, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. (Pages in this file are numbered 1-7 at bottom of page.) (See also RIBAK FILE, BOX 89, FOLDER 4 and the MANDELMAN-RIBAK FILE in my GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE...
Dates:
January 1980
CRAIG VINCENT, July 11, 1985
File — Box: 131, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Leftwing activist Craig and his wife, folksinger Jenny Vincent, were good friends from San Cristobal. Craig involved me in many projects, from the Tierra Amarilla Clinica to the U.S.-China Peoples Friendship Committee in Taos. (See CRAIG AND JENNY VINCENT in my GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES. See also, in my NOVEL NOTES, the GREEN MEAD NOTEBOOK, 1984-1986 for more of my writings about Craig.) This file has 2 different drafts of my eulogy for Craig at his July 11, 1985 San Cristobal memorial. One...
Dates:
July 11, 1985
B.B. BOLAS, November 3, 1985
File — Box: 131, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
B.B. Bolas was the mother of Dori Vinella, who for years ran Dori's bakery that I frequented daily, and where I wrote several books. This folder includes: 1.) The first draft 3-page typed eulogy for B.B. with many hand corrections. 2.) A cleanly typed 3-page finished eulogy. (Pages in this file are numbered 1-6 at bottom of page.)
Dates:
November 3, 1985
RINI TEMPLETON, June 27, 1986
File — Box: 131, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Rini Templeton was a revolutionary artist whose graphic works are still used around the world in progressive publications. She died at 51 in Mexico City on June 15, 1986. She had a cabin on Pilar Hill, south of Taos. Rini contributed drawings to the New Mexico Review during the early 1970s when I wrote for it. She and I put out the last three NMR issues in 1972. Rini worked with Betita Martínez on El Grito del Norte in Española. She was active with the Taller Grafico in Tierra Amarilla, and...
Dates:
June 27, 1986
ANDRÉS MARTINEZ, December 14, 1990
File — Box: 131, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Andrés Martínez was my friend and teacher from the early 1970s until his death on December 14, 1990. He is mentioned often in these archives and in my non-fiction book The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. (See INDIAN CAMP DAM material in BOX 14, FOLDERS 8-11; and the ANDRÉS MARTINEZ FILE in BOX 15, FOLDERS 1-3; and more Andrés Martínez material in BOX 89, FOLDERS 15 and 40.) Though Andrés was a Mormon and Republican, we got along fine. As President of the Tres Rios Association he fought the...
Dates:
December 14, 1990
STEPHANIE SONORA, December 8, 1990
File — Box: 131, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Stephanie was my partner during the mid-1970s. She had a colorful life and had lived all over the world. She hung out in New York at the Cedar Bar with artists like Jackson Pollock, de Kooning, Clifford Still, Franz Kline, Salvatore Scarpitti. She dated movie actor Ralph Meeker. Rarely have I known anyone so full of life. Stephanie fought cancer for many years and died at 58. My novel The Magic Journey is dedicated to her. Her photographic portrait is in The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. This...
Dates:
December 8, 1990
TOM TRUJILLO, April 26, 1995
File — Box: 131, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Tom was my Upper Ranchitos next-door neighbor from 1969 until I left my house in 1989. Tom taught me much about Taos. He kept his horse in my tiny fields for years. This folder includes: 1.) 3 pages of handwritten notes about Tom's life (for my eulogy) written by his daughter, Frances Trujillo. 2.) A 10-page handwritten draft of my eulogy. 3.) A cleanly typed 7-page eulogy delivered on April 26, 1995. (Pages in this file are numbered 1-19 at bottom of page.)
Dates:
April 26, 1995
ROSS MARES, September 15, 1995
File — Box: 131, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Ross Mares was my friend Evelyn Mares Valerio's dad. I did not know him well. His service was in the Ranchos Church. This folder includes: 1.) My 2 pages of notes about Ross from conversations with Evelyn and her family. 2.) 2 pages of notes about his life given to me by Evelyn. 3.) My 2-page typed version of the eulogy. 4.) A program of the Ross Mares church service. (Pages in file are numbered 1-6 at bottom of page.)
Dates:
September 15, 1995
JIM TERRY, July 8, 1995
File — Box: 131, Folder: 9
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Jim Terry was my buddy Doug Terry's father. He was from Texas and loved horses. Jim was riding his stallion in the Eagle Nest, New Mexico Fourth-of-July parade when the stallion reared up, toppled over backwards, and crushed Jim. This folder has: 1.) The 2-page handwritten first draft of my eulogy. 2.) A typed version of the eulogy. 3.) Two color Xerox photos of Jim riding the stallion that killed him. 4.) A church pamphlet for Jim's memorial service. (Pages in this file are numbered 1-6 at...
Dates:
July 8, 1995
ISABEL VIGIL, April 10, 1996
File — Box: 131, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Isabel, and her daughter, Evelyn Mares Valerio, were dear friends of mine. I wrote about them in The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. Isabel's Upper Ranchitos farm had dogs, cats, horses, a burro, cows, peacocks, quail, pheasants, chickens, with pens everywhere, apple trees, bee hives. Despite many family tragedies, Isabel and Evelyn retained remarkable high spirits. This folder contains two 4-page typed drafts (one slightly abridged) of my eulogy for Isabel given at the St. Francis Church in...
Dates:
April 10, 1996
MEL HOWARD, July 28, 1996
File — Box: 131, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Mel Howard was an actor, director, AD, and a film professor. He gained acclaim for a 1975 film he acted in with Carol Kane called Hester Street. I met Mel through my Hollywood pal, Leo Garen. Mel almost directed my novel The Wizard of Loneliness. We talked about doing film projects together. (See MEL HOWARD in my GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES.) Mel had hepatitis and died after a liver transplant. His wife (partner?), Michelle LeBrun, made a documentary about Mel facing death. It was first called...
Dates:
July 28, 1996
MIKE KIMMEL, September 25, 1997
File — Box: 131, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
My best friend for over three decades, Mike died in N.Y. on September 22, 1997. We hiked, hunted, and fished almost yearly in Taos. I wrote about Mike in The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn. My eulogy for him was published by UNM Press in Dancing on the Stones. It's called "Earl the Pearl Meets Rikki-tikki-tavi." In this folder you'll find: 1.) 3 pages of handwritten notes for the eulogy. 2.) 16-page handwritten version of the eulogy I gave at Mike's N.Y. memorial on September 25, 1997. 3.) 3...
Dates:
September 25, 1997
JULIEN WOOD, May 25, 1997
File — Box: 131, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
Julien was a pal, though not especially close. We had many friends in common. He died on May 14, 1997. In this folder are: 1.) A 4-page handwritten copy of my short eulogy at his memorial service. 2.) A 2-page typed version of those words. 3.) A program for the May 25 outdoor service at his Arroyo Seco home. Julien had just started a nursery. Today (2011) several of his fruit trees are growing in my yard 13 years after Julien's death. (Pages in this file are numbered 1-7 at bottom of page.)
Dates:
May 25, 1997
ELIOT DUBOIS, August 30, 1997
File — Box: 131, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Eliot DuBois was related to me through my dad's mother, Cornelia DuBois Floyd Nichols. Eliot and his wife Barbara retired to Taos. Their son Del lives in Taos. Eliot wrote a fine book called An Innocent on the Middle Fork. In retirement he wrote some fiction and I critiqued it. This folder has: 1.) A 3-page handwritten draft of my eulogy. 2.) A clean, 4-page typed draft of the eulogy. 3.) A Taos Episcopal Church program for the service on August 30, 1997. Eliot had died of cancer on August 20,...
Dates:
August 30, 1997
BEA MANDELMAN, July 17, 1998
File — Box: 131, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Bea's hubby, Louis Ribak, died in 1980 (See ABOVE. See also RIBAK-MANDELMAN in my GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES. See as well my DECEMBER 1971 NEW MEXICO REVIEW ARTICLE ABOUT BEA, "THE MIRACLE IS ENERGY: AFTERMATH OF A WOMEN'S ART EXHIBIT.") Bea kept painting for 18 years after Louis died. This folder contains: 1.) First draft announcement of Bea's memorial at the Harwood Museum in Taos. 2.) Second draft announcement of the Harwood service. 3.) A page of my scribbled notes for a eulogy about Bea....
Dates:
July 17, 1998
JIM SAGEL, APRIL 22, 1998/MAY 9, 1998
File — Box: 131, Folder: 16
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Jim was a friend and fellow writer. He committed suicide on April 6, 1998, a week before my father died. Jim was 50. The day he died I had gone to Los Alamos to speak to Jim's class. I learned of his death 10 minutes before class and gave my first eulogy for Jim to that class. I returned to Los Alamos on April 22 for an official service. My eulogy was a poem to Jim. On May 9 I read a prose eulogy for Jim in Taos. Jim is mentioned often in these archives in my ACTIVITIES FILES relating to...
Dates:
APRIL 22, 1998/MAY 9, 1998
DAVID GELSTON NICHOLS (MY DAD), April 13, 1998
File — Box: 131, Folder: 17
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My father died in Smithville, Texas, on April 13, 1998. A Smithville funeral was held on April 15. On May 16 our family had a memorial at the William Floyd Estate in Mastic, New York, the family home where Pop was born in 1916. This file includes: 1.) An obituary I wrote on April 13, 1998 and faxed to Metta Johnson, the Smithville newspaper editor, and to Dad's stepdaughter, Carol Brown, in Bastrop, TX. 2.) A packet I gave to family members at the May 16 Mastic memorial. The packet includes:...
Dates:
April 13, 1998
ANNA FERNANDEZ NICHOLS, October 26, 1998
File — Box: 131, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
Anna was my brother Tim Nichols' only child. Aged 18, she died in a Detroit car accident on October 24, 1998. My brother and Anna's mother, Laura Fernandez, were divorced. In this folder are: 1.) My scribbled notes getting airplane schedules for trip to Detroit when I heard Anna died. 2.) A pamphlet with 3 photos of Anna and some words about her life. 3.) A Xerox color photo of me and Anna together. 4.) A typed version of my October 27 eulogy for Anna in Detroit. 5.) A sheet with a poem called...
Dates:
October 26, 1998
ALAN PAKULA, November 19, 1998
File — Box: 131, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Alan was a film director noted for films like All The President's Men and Sophie's Choice. In 1965 he hired me to write a screenplay for my own novel, The Sterile Cuckoo. (See my SCREENPLAY FILES.) Sterile Cuckoo was the first film Pakula directed. He was killed at 70 in a freak auto accident in November 1998 when a piece of pipe snapped off the roadway by a car's tire went through his window and struck him. My 3-page Personal Tribute to him was published on The World Socialist Web Site. This...
Dates:
November 19, 1998
LOU PALMER, January 2002
File — Box: 131, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
Lou Palmer was my stepmother Esther Gleason "Brownie" Nichols' second husband. By late 2001 Lou was dying. He went into a Denver hospice. This folder has: 1.) My scribbled envelope notes (5 envelopes!) with suggestions to Brownie about handling Lou's death. 2.) My 4-page typed letter with those suggestions. 3.) 3 pages (one envelope) of my scribbled notes on dealing with Brownie's recent car accident. 4.) A yellow Post-It dated January 29, 2002 recording Brownie's complaint that Lou isn't...
Dates:
January 2002
DAVID WELD, June 10, 2005
File — Box: 131, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
David Weld was my first cousin, two years older than me. His mom was my dad's sister, Mollie Blake Nichols Weld. When my mother Monique died in 1942 I lived with the Welds for two years while my dad was at war. The youngest Weld, Bill, became Governor of Massachusetts. This folder has my Fax of comments I sent to David's brother Tim (F.M. Weld) to be read at David's memorial on June 10, 2005. Folder also contains my first hand-written draft done on June 7, 2005. (Pages are numbered 1-5 at...
Dates:
June 10, 2005
LEO GAREN, December 1, 2006
File — Box: 131, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Leo Garen was my "Hollywood" friend, introduced to me by Dennis Hopper, probably in 1970 or 1971. Leo directed Off Broadway plays in New York, including The Ginger Man, Norman Mailer's Deer Park, Jean Genet, and other well-known writers and plays. Then he went to L.A., worked for Ray Stark, was an A.D. for Antonioni on "Zabriskie Point," and made his own film with Gary Busey and Keith Carradine called, I believe, "Grasslands." The studio took it away from him, called it "Hex." It was eventually...
Dates:
December 1, 2006
JEANNE ENGLERT, April 21, 2007
File — Box: 131, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
Jeanne Englert was a great activist/organizer. We met in early 1979 in Durango, Colorado, when I gave a benefit speech against the Animas-La Plata Project. After that, Jeanne and I corresponded for many years, mostly about the Animas-La Plata water/conservancy project. (See JEANNE ENGLERT in my GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE FILES.) Jeanne died in October 2006. Her memorial was at the Mount Princeton (CO.) Hot Springs on April 21, 2007. In this folder are: 1.) An invitation (still in its envelope) to...
Dates:
April 21, 2007
COOKIE, May 25, 2007
File — Box: 131, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Cookie was my cat, my last pet. The day she died I wrote a eulogy for her. It was published in the June 15, 2007 Taos Horse Fly! Front page. 879 words. This folder has my first hand-written draft and 4 subsequent drafts with corrections. (Pages are numbered 1-22 at bottom of page.)
Dates:
May 25, 2007
PERRY KNOWLTON, November 6, 2007
File — Box: 131, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Perry Knowlton was my New York literary agent from 1964 until he retired in the late 1990s. (See CURTIS BROWN and PERRY KNOWLTON in my BOOK/AGENT FILES in ARCHIVAL BOXES 103-104.) Perry died of Alzheimer's on July 6, 2007. His New York memorial was on November 6, 2007. This folder includes: 1.) My October 23, 2007 letter to Perry's son, Tim Knowlton. 2.) Many Xeroxed photos of Perry. 3.) My short and long versions of reflections on Perry to be read at his memorial. 4.) Perry's New York Times...
Dates:
November 6, 2007