#robert young

"A man and woman in love have the gift of sight... that isn't granted to other people. I watched you. I've watched you from the beginning. And on the day of your wedding, I saw your love blaze up like dry kindling wood. Keep your love burning. Keep it burning. And I promise you, you'll never be anything to one another but fair and handsome! That's the charm. That's the secret to the only enchantment this cottage holds. It's of your own making."

Years ago I purchased a collection of snapshots that document the relationship of a gay couple, Roger Pegram and Frank Bushong, who lived in New York City during the 1950s. The photos capture many different aspects of the couple’s life together, including vacations in Provincetown and other locations in New England, Christmas and New Year’s holidays, weekend house parties with friends in Andover, Massachusetts, and even a day in Central Park. I have researched the lives of both men and learned that their relationship spanned the years 1951–1959. However, even after they broke up they remained lifelong friends, and the collection of photos that I have belonged to Roger Pegram who died at the age of 70 in 1999. Frank Bushong died in 1985 at the age of 61. The couple’s social circle was made up of a close-knit group of gay men who worked in business, the arts, and academia. (x)

— Robert Young, Quinnipiac University librarian

Robert Young

Florence Rice

February 14, 1907 – February 23, 1974 (age 67)

☆ American film actress during the late 1920s and, after several Broadway roles, eventually made her way to Hollywood, where she acted in almost 50 films between 1934 and 1943.