Frances Barrett (known to her friends as “Fran”) and Charles White first met in June of 1942 at Wo-Chi-Ca, where she was working as a camp counselor and he was director of the art program. The two reconnected in 1948, following his divorce from Elizabeth Catlett, while White recovered from numerous surgeries to treat his tuberculosis. Barrett, a social worker and accomplished Skidmore graduate, shared White’s social and political values. Her memoir, Reaches of the Heart, provides a rich chronicle of the couple’s time together in New York City. She recounts that “Charlie began introducing me to his New York,” taking her to his favorite haunts in the city. “He loved to eat, and Barney Josephson’s Cookery across the street from Bloomingdale’s was at the top of his restaurant list…. We ate paella at Granada’s on MacDougall Street and on weekends, late at night, we would meet Ernie and Dot Crichlow for drinks and jazz at Max Gordon’s Village Vanguard.” The Whites enjoyed nearly three decades of marriage, until Charles’s premature death in 1979. They adopted two children, Jessica and Charles Ian White.