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\u201cIt was folded up in this book,\u201d Caleb McMurphy, the museum\u2019s director of visitor services and education, tells me a few months later. He was kindly taking me upstairs to Hammond\u2019s old octagonal bedroom, looking out onto Gloucester Harbor. There he showed me the guest book. It\u2019s maybe 15 inches tall, with a leather cover decorated with a lacy flower pattern, and marbleized end papers. McMurphy flipped through the massive tome until he came to the drawing. He unfolded the paper, ragged at the top and bottom, to show it to me\u2014and it felt like a time machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lansing, who died on Feb. 11, 2018, just days before his 90th birthday, was a friend of mine. He was a wise and thoughtful and deeply curious and deeply learned and impish man. He\u2019d sometimes talk about living upstairs at the Castle decades earlier and coyly mention naked pool parties there. Suddenly it wasn\u2019t a vague memory\u2014but my old friend naked and beautiful a month after he\u2019d turned 32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kelly drew it in a late Picasso surreal cartoon style. It feels like a quick observation. Lansing is seen from above, floating on his back, a wan smile across his lips. His arms and head and torso and legs become separate shapes, islands. Kelly wrote across the top: \u201cIt was a great swim, Jack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this intimate sketch was a glimpse of a network of friendships and creative alliances and romances. It was a window into a time when Hammond\u2019s imitation fortress became a gay haven\u2014one of the underground crossroads of mid 20th century American queer culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This June, McMurphy tells me, \u201cfor the first time ever in its history, Hammond Castle is celebrating Pride Month.\u201d Events include the exhibition \u201cMaximus to Aquarius: Gerrit Lansing and Set Magazine\u201d<\/a> from June 7 to 13, as part of a series of \u201cPride-focused mini-exhibits\u201d throughout the month, the museum\u2019s website explains, to \u201ccelebrate the life and accomplishments of a different set of significant queer figures who either visited the museum or were associated with its founder John Hays Hammond Jr.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n In connection with the exhibition, on Sunday, June 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the museum will host “Abbadia Mare: A Night of Poetry & Pride”<\/a>: \u201creadings by community members from works by Charles Olson, John Wieners, Robert Duncan, Gerrit Lansing, Daisy Alden, and many others, including, for the first time, newly unearthed poems by John Hays Hammond Jr. himself. Along the way, learn about these figures\u2019 ongoing relationships\u2014their friendships, rivalries, and romances, with one another\u2014and their personal significance within the broader tapestry of queer history. The evening will culminate in a reading of a unique illuminated version of \u2018Abbadia Mare,\u2019 a poem written by Gerrit Lansing in the museum\u2019s guest book in 1959 about the building and personally dedicated to Hammond.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Mercurial,\u2019 \u2018Misanthropic\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n How Lansing and Kelly ended up at Hammond\u2019s Castle goes back to the painter Harry Martin. A timely snapshot of the group can be found in Patrick Balfour aka Lord Kinross\u2019s 1959 travel memoir \u201cThe Innocents at Home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a visit to Manhattan, the British author took a taxi and struck up a quick friendship with his driver, who turned out to be Martin. \u201cAs a painter, he was emerging from an abstract phase,\u201d Kinross wrote, \u201cbut no new style had yet taken its place, and these were haphazard sketches of people in the parks and animals in the zoo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kinross ended up staying with Martin and joining Martin\u2019s New York circle of friends\u2014which included Gerrit Lansing, \u201cat heart a serious scholar,\u201d Kinross wrote, who was \u201cmercurial and versatile, with an alert pug-face and a quick paradoxical mind, who counterbalanced a safe University Press job with a pursuit of the esoteric and a private life of exuberant and restless disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lansing graduated from Harvard in 1949, and moved to New York with college friends\u2014poets Frank O\u2019Hara and John Ashbery, and artist Edward Gorey, with whom Lansing attended the ballet. Lansing found work at Columbia University Press. In the rare book room of the New York Public Library and at bebop concerts at Birdland, Lansing became friends with the mystical artist and anthropologist Harry Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin\u2019s friends also included Ruth Landshoff-Yorck, a German writer, translator and actress who\u2019d performed in the classic 1922 film \u201cNosferatu.\u201d David Rich, a friend and archivist for Lansing, says, \u201cShe was a woman, but had a male identity and dressed as a man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another friend of Martin\u2019s was the artist Ellsworth Kelly. Kinross would sometimes lunch with Martin and the \u201csallow and withdrawn and misanthropic\u201d Kelly at the Central Park Zoo or hang out on the roof of Kelly\u2019s \u201cstudio at the top of an old dilapidated building downtown, between Wall Street and the River.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelly later became famous for his flat, colorfield abstractions. New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art owns more than 300 of his artworks. \u201cOne of America\u2019s great 20th-century abstract artists,\u201d The New York Times said when he died in 2015 at age 92, \u201cwho in the years after World War II shaped a distinctive style of American painting by combining the solid shapes and brilliant colors of European abstraction with forms distilled from everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOne figure stood out as a dominant influence among this group of friends. He was John Latouche,\u201d Kinross wrote. Latouche was the Broadway theater librettist who composed lyrics for the 1956 opera \u201cThe Ballad of Baby Doe\u201d and collaborated with Duke Ellington on the 1946 musical \u201cBeggar\u2019s Holiday\u201d and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman on the 1956 operetta \u201cCandide\u201d (until Bernstein fired him). Latouche began an affair with Martin in 1950, that lasted perhaps a couple years, before Latouche took up with Kenward Elmslie, a poet, heir to the Pulitzer fortune, and Lansing\u2019s childhood friend. \u201cJohn was dominating in his friendships and, moreover, lived at a turbulent pitch such as few human beings can sustain for along. He would work and talk all day, and drink and talk all night, carrying along with him, irresistibly, his small court of adherents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kinross describes the friends\u2019 primary pastimes as heavy drinking and philosophical discussions about the meaning of life. In his 2017 biography \u201cThe Ballad of John Latouche: An American Lyricist\u2019s Life and Work,\u201d Howard Pollack reproduces a carnival photo taken at Coney Island in the early 1950s of Latouche, Martin, Lansing and Elmslie playing \u201cgangsters in a getaway car.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere were perhaps a dozen of them, all relatively poor and outwardly unconcerned about money, living for the most part in cold-water flats; perplexed by personal problems, psychological and otherwise, but creating an atmosphere around them in which I felt at once at home,\u201d Kinross wrote. \u201cThey were people with a respect for civilized values, in the arts and in personal relations; with an approach to life which was zestful and essentially human, but with an honesty of mind which made them uneasily critical of much of the life going on around them.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Never Known A Time Like This\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kinross set off to tour the United States. (His book is illustrated by Martin\u2019s inked icons of landmarks from Kinsross\u2019s American travels.) While visiting Los Angeles, Kinross received a letter from Martin saying he had been staying at Latouche\u2019s home in Calais, Vermont. In the early morning hours of Aug. 7, 1956, Latouche woke Martin with \u201ca terrific chest pain.\u201d Martin wrote that, within an hour, the 41-year-old Latouche was dead. The medical examiner identified the cause as a heart attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI have never known a time like this when I feel so numb and unable to communicate,\u201d Martin wrote Kinross. \u201cThere are only four of us still here at the house: Ruth, Ken, Gerrit and myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis set up Harry Martin in a very difficult position. Despite the coroner saying John Latouche died of thrombosis [leading to a heart attack], his family suspected he murdered John Latouche,\u201d McMurphy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Latouche\u2019s family requested a formal inquiry. An autopsy confirmed a heart attack and \u201cexonerated Martin, who nonetheless was left traumatized by the entire ordeal,\u201d Pollack writes in \u201cThe Ballad of John Latouche.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n To get some distance from his troubles, Martin visited Kinross in England, before returning to New York and driving a cab again. In 1958, Latouche\u2019s old friend Hammond, \u201cwho long had taken an interest in Martin, invited the painter to move to his castle in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the two, according to Gerrit Lansing, discretely conducted an affair,\u201d Pollock writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Martin first visited Hammond\u2019s Castle with Latouche in the summer of 1950. Hammond was an inventor, mentored by Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, who went on to launch Hammond Radio Research at his parent\u2019s seaside estate in Gloucester in 1911. He was awarded more than 400 patents, many for work for RCA. Sometimes called \u201cThe Father of Radio Control,\u201d his devices, including a radio-controlled torpedo, are considered a key forerunner of today\u2019s missile guidance systems. In the late 1920s, he erected his medieval-style stone castle near his parents\u2019 home, naming it \u201cAbbadia Mare,\u201d Latin for \u201cAbbey from the Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rich recalls, \u201cAccording to what Gerrit told me, Hammond said: Come live with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHammond had relationships with both men and women throughout his life,\u201d McMurphy says. \u201c…Hammond calls him up and says: My wife is very ill. I\u2019m getting older. You don\u2019t have anything to do. You\u2019re in these dire financial straights. Why don\u2019t you come up here and you can be a caretaker for the building and you can live with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHarry Martin coming up here,\u201d McMurphy says, \u201cis what brings Gerrit Lansing up here and brings Kenward Elmslie up here.\u201d Lansing wound up living in one of the bedrooms upstairs from the indoor courtyard that evokes a 15th century French village square\u2014with a swimming pool at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Famous Visitors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hammond\u2019s success and notoriety attracted many famous visitors. The first signatures in his guest book, dated November 1928, are Hammond\u2019s parents. Composer George Gershwin visits in July 1929 and inscribes a line from his landmark 1924 jazz age tune \u201cRhapsody in Blue.\u201d Other signatures include the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Boston, movie people, society people, mystics and occultists, Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky, Jackie Kennedy\u2019s mother, \u201cRocky\u201d actor Burgess Meredith, frozen food pioneer Clarence Birdseye, screenwriter Anita Loos, RCA chief and NBC founder David Sarnoff. New Yorker nightlife cartoonist Peter Arno signed in October 1946. Latouche drew a cherub in the guest book in July 1948. John and Henry Ringling North, of \u201cThe Greatest Show On Earth\u201d circus, signed in May 1949. Composer Virgil Thomson and \u201cModern Times\u201d actress \/ Charlie Chaplin\u2019s sweetheart\/ Burgess Meredith\u2019s wife Paulette Goddard visited in April 1950. Playwright Noel Coward signed around 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the beginning of his life, he\u2019s friends with Astors and Rockefellers. Where later in life, it\u2019s more eclectic,\u201d McMurphy says. \u201cAt the end of his life, he\u2019s friends with all these avant garde poets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hammond, Martin and Lansing comprised a private literary circle that met weekly in the Castle\u2019s Sun Room or Side Chapel, on the ocean side of the Great Hall. Joining them were a local gay man named Paul Oakley and sailor Deryk Burton, whom Lansing met at The Studio, a gay bar on Gloucester\u2019s Rocky Neck. They called their writing group Le Cinq\u2014The Five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUrban hells seem fictive here, \/ Where mind reflects the motions of the sea \/ And of the Gothic past. Time flickers \/ In the salty, star-pricked air \/ And the Gloucester buoys dip,\u201d Lansing said in his poem \u201cAbbadia Mare,\u201d written in Hammond\u2019s guest book in 1959, surrounded by illustrations by Martin. \u201c\u2026Downstairs we talk of automatic death, \/ The hydrogen bomb and the Aquarian Age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy sense is that during this period there were still people coming up from New York,\u201d Rich says. \u201cI get the sense that it is a haven for gay men. It\u2019s a place where they can party and cavort. They were into things like literary games\u2014you have to come up with a story on the spot or a speech on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hammond also explored the occult. His friends included parapsychologists and, in the 1950s, he built a Faraday cage in the Castle\u2019s Great Hall that he hoped would block ESP, extrasensory perception, McMurphy says. Lansing, too, was a longtime devotee of the occult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lansing published two issues of his literary magazine \u201cSet\u201d in the early 1960s\u2014Hammond was among those thanked on the last pages because their \u201cgenerosity & help made this issue possible.\u201d Featured poets included Elmslie, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Edward Dorn, John Wieners, Stephen Jonas, LeRoi Jones. Martin designed the covers\u2014the front of the second issue depicted a male body and a female body, nude, conjoined at the head, with calm closed eyes, and lines shining out from its long wavy hair. Rich says, \u201cMost but not all the contributors were queer and it was very frank, it was very open.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his 1984 \u201cThe Autobiography of LeRoi Jones,\u201d the Black power activist and writer, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka, recalls Gloucester poet and former Black Mountain College rector Charles Olson taking him to the Castle for an evening with Hammond and \u201ca few friends, all, I think, gay. I think the only non-gay persons in the crib were Olson and I. \u2026 Olson, center stage as usual, was telling these stories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Baraka went on, \u201cWhen we go to bed that night, I got a room that\u2019s right off this patio in the middle of the castle. After midnight sometime, I hear this noise like splashing and men\u2019s voices high and tittering. I go to the door and prop it open and this guy\u2019s friends are diving from a second-story balcony down into his pool in the middle of the patio. They\u2019re butt naked. It was like being woven into a tapestry of exotic otherness, but the next day when we got back to Olson\u2019s place he is roaring with laughter at the whole business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Material Just Coming Out Now\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hammond died in 1965. Martin moved into an apartment above Nick\u2019s Pool Room on Main Street and drove a taxi in Gloucester and taught art at St. John\u2019s Prep in Danvers. He died in 1984. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Oakley inherited Hammond\u2019s cats. The Castle, which Hammond had operated as a museum since the 1930s, was donated to the Catholic Church, which ran it for about seven years, before management of the museum was taken over by a private group, McMurphy says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lansing, who\u2019d moved out of the Castle to live with Burton in Gloucester\u2019s Annisquam neighborhood, soon left Gloucester, joining Burton in skippering private yachts to their winter berths in Florida and the Caribbean. Lansing and Burton would be partners with for 35 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1966, Lansing published a collection of his poems that he called \u201cThe Heavenly Tree Grows Downward,\u201d which he would revise and expand in additional editions throughout his life. \u201cAlchemical \u2026 With themes at once personal and social, erotic and esoteric,\u201d reads the jacket to the 2009 edition, \u201cHeavenly Tree, Northern Earth.\u201d \u201cGerrit\u2019s poems can be lyrical and pastoral and dreamy and full of the magic elixir of Seduction, where the Mother of Memory is the Imagination,\u201d poet and publisher Ryan Gallagher wrote in the 2013 magazine of Boston-area writing \u201cLet the Bucket Down.\u201d Though Lansing\u2019s name appeared occasionally in Boston Globe listings of readings, he largely operated under the radar\u2014which seemed to suit him. \u201cAn underground but influential and very respected poet from Gloucester,\u201d the poet Michael Franco described him in a 1993 Globe preview of a reading Franco was organizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lansing and Burton moved back to Gloucester in the early 1980s and Lansing opened his occult bookstore Abraxas in a small room above the Rigger bar on Main Street. Burton died in 1997. When Lansing died in 2018, numerous poets spoke at his memorial<\/a> in the Great Hall at Hammond Castle. I wandered into the courtyard, where the pool is, and remembered Lansing\u2019s hints of wild parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under Hammond Castle\u2019s current executive director, Linda Harvey, money has been put into hiring staff to organize and digitize papers left behind at the Castle when Hammond died, Rich says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo there\u2019s all kinds of material just now coming out,\u201d Rich says. \u201cWhen I worked at the Castle in the late 1990s, the staff did not have access to this archive. It was not available for scholars to study. It wasn\u2019t something the staff even knew about.\u201d Many of the papers were in the upstairs bedrooms on the ocean side of the building, where Hammond; his wife, the artist, astrologer (she published a column in the 1920s under the name Madame Renee Lonquille) and theosophist Irene Fenton; and then Martin had slept. These rooms are now offices and archival storage. \u201cNo one was allowed up there. That\u2019s where all this stuff was, all these papers were. All this stuff was sitting there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Including Hammond\u2019s guest book, long thought lost, with Kelly\u2019s drawing tucked inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThey\u2019d found this sketch. They kind of let me go through it and I hit that and I\u2019m just sure I swore out of excitement,\u201d Rich says. Martin had turned 33 in late March 1960, so perhaps Kelly had come to Hammond\u2019s Castle for that. \u201cIt was so different than everything else I\u2019ve seen by Ellsworth Kelly. There\u2019s a humor in it. It\u2019s cartoonish. A sense of fun. It\u2019s warm and playful and cheeky. It seems like it was done by a friend for a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rich says, \u201cIt\u2019s illuminating this kind of forgotten scene. It\u2019s a queer story. It was kind of a thriving queer scene.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The extent of Lansing and Kelly\u2019s friendship is unclear. \u201cI don\u2019t really know if Kelly stayed in touch with Gerrit,\u201d Rich says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After Lansing died, in the first floor library of his home across from Gloucester\u2019s Stage Fort Park, was a plaster-cast life mask that Martin had made decades before\u2014of Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, occasional newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting. (All content \u00a9Greg Cook 2024 or the respective creato<\/em>rs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Late last year, archivists made a dramatic discovery when paging through an old guest book at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Long thought lost, the guest book\u2014full of bold-faced names who visited inventor John \u201cJack\u201d Hays Hammond, Jr.\u2014was rediscovered as part of recent archival research. 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