Anna Nevins lived at Shaw Farm, Waterford, Connecticut. She was the sister of Marian Nevins MacDowell who ran the MacDowell Colony artists' retreat in New Hampshire.[fn]ean Ashburn Keeney, 'Nevins house harbors many myths', The Day, 20 August 1979, accessed 16 March 2016: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19790818&id=CiEiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8HMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2585,3462876&hl=en; and Johnna Kaplan, 'The Shaw-Perkins-Nevins House', Waterford Patch, 15 July 2011, accessed 16 March 2016: http://patch.com/connecticut/waterford/the-shaw-perkins-nevins-house[/fn]