Organ Recital
Event Details
406 Larrabee Street
Clermont , IA 52135
Contact Name: Wade Schott
Email: montauk@acegroup.cc
Phone: 563-423-7173
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Ruth Ann Poppen, Director of Music at Immanuel Lutheran Church & School, Palatine, IL will present a free organ concert at the Union Sunday School in Clermont, Iowa on Sunday July 28, at 2:30 p.m.
Ms. Poppen will portray Miss Anna Larrabee, the fourth child of Iowa Governor William and Anna MatildaAppelman Larrabee . When Anna was six years old, the family moved to Montauk, their new home overlooking the community of Clermont below. She received her primary and secondary education in the Clermont Schools. About 1889, she attended a private girl’s school, the St. Katherine Episcopal School, in Davenport, Iowa. She then spent one year, 1893, at the State University of Iowa. In 1894, she went to Chicago for further music instruction. Although all members of the family were musically inclined, it was Anna who is known to have had the greatest talent. From Chicago, she went to New York, in 1899, to study voice. After her music training, she returned to Clermont where she taught violin and voice.
During the Union Sunday School service, every Sunday morning for 60 years, Anna Larrabee played the 1896 Kimball pipe organ, a gift from her father to the Union Sunday School. She also taught at the Union Sunday School and held a picnic once a year for her class on the west front lawn of Montauk. Outliving all her brothers and sisters, Anna died in Clermont in 1965, at the age of 96 years. Anna Larrabee, whose request it was that Montauk always be kept a living home, is credited with the preservation of the Montauk collection.
