Robert Bright

His father was a journalist and his mother was the daughter of Ebenezer Kellogg Wright, president of the National Park Bank in New York City.

In 1903 the family moved to Germany where Robert Bright's father attended the University of Göttingen to study mathematics.

There he majored in English and won a competition to the Princeton Press Club which allowed him to write columns for various city newspapers including the New York World, The Baltimore Sun, The Philadelphia Ledger, The Boston Transcript and The Standard News Association.

At the urging of friend Frieda Lawrence, Bright moved with his wife, Katherine, and two young children to Taos, New Mexico in 1938.

There, the Brights lived in a simple adobe house in Rio Chiquito on four acres of land where they grew their own food and raised chickens for eggs and meat.