‏Bouck White‏

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.