Ferdinand Hampson discusses naming Habatat Galleries. Oral history interview with Ferdinand Hampson by Catherine Whalen and Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, January 31, 2020, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:48.

Ferdinand Hampson: Yeah. We found the name as, you know, probably in the thesaurus or something. And it was a place to return to. And we thought in terms of collectors, that’s—it was nice. A nice name. And we spelled it out and didn’t like the way it looked. So we said, ‘[inaudible] if that was H-A-B-A-T-A-T, that it would be a more—a much more beautiful word.’ So that’s what we did. And actually served us well because we would go into other states now and have a name that was different than the way habitat is spelled because there’s generally some kind of habitat spelled correctly.