Charlotte Gafford wrote The Pond Lady which is the sole book of poetry by a poet born in Birmingham, Alabama. She spent a number of years teaching in Vermont and most of the poems in the collection are located in Vermont rather than in the South. However, the subject is still rural and the characters she presents (people are definitely the triggers for her poems) will be recognizable to rural folks regardless of latitude. Her poetry is very accessible.
Discipline:
Literature
Charlotte Gafford
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Fairview, TN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1975
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Charlotte Gafford worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…