Lucilla Garrett is a long-term Eureka Springs resident who served on city council in the ‘70s and who co-owned Garrett Antiques, an antique store specializing in antique and vintage prints. Lucilla has served on countless boards throughout the years including ESSA and was a founding member of the Museum of Eureka Springs Art. She is currently a board member of ARISA and the board president of the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library.
- How did you arrive to Eureka Springs? Our first visit with my late husband Jim Garrett happened in 1965, but we did not buy a house until 1970. We both fell in love with the town. It was both very affordable and charming.
- Do you have a motto you stand by? Forgive, early and often.
- Hard liquor, beer, wine or teetotaler? I’m a teetotaler most of the time. I saw what alcohol did to people I love and said, “I can’t do this.”
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? The list is too long, although at this point in life, I’m almost accepting of everything.
- What’s your favorite concert you ever attended? I saw Rudolph Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn perform in Dallas in the early ‘60s and was completely mesmerized.
- What six people, dead or alive would you invite to your dinner party? Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Sorkin, Hannah Arendt, a brilliant writer and journalist during WWII and after, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and my father James Sartain who died in 1959 when I was very young. I just have so many questions.
Lucilla is great, and a GREAT resident in Eureka. She and her late husband, Jim, helped make the historic district what it is. How lucky she and Jim settled there.