“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.” —Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907–June 29, 2003). This fiercely independent four-time Oscar winner wasn’t the sort to tie her fate to anyone else’s. But the Connecticut native did maintain a decades-long bond with her family’s beloved seaside […]
By Yankee Magazine
Apr 17 2017
“As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.”
—Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907–June 29, 2003). This fiercely independent four-time Oscar winner wasn’t the sort to tie her fate to anyone else’s. But the Connecticut native did maintain a decades-long bond with her family’s beloved seaside retreat in Old Saybrook, where she spent the last years of her life. In 2009, the town repaid that devotion by debuting the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, affectionately nicknamed “the Kate.”