Bouck White(1874-1951)
- Actor
- Writer
Raised in upstate New York, Bouck White graduated from Harvard and became a
Congregational minister. During World War I, he abandoned mainstream
religion and founded his own "Church of Social Revolution." He was soon
known as New York City's "most eccentric radical." Jailed several times
for various protests, he left the United States to study ceramics in
France. He returned in the early Twenties with Parisian bride half his
age. After only a couple of days at White's shabby farmhouse near
Marlboro, New York, the young woman ran away and the marriage was
annulled. White moved to the Helderberg Mountains (just south of
Albany, New York). He built a castle and sold pottery until a stroke
forced him to retired to a nursing home. He remained there until his
death.