Friday, September 23, 2022

No Holds Barred: Reclaiming my Bloomingdale’s Fix

Guest Diary• September 23, 2022.

Blair Sabol takes a good look back to Bloomingdale’s when it was a legend and customers would check it out everyday just to see what was ‘the latest.’ Even Morley Safer and 60 minutes couldn’t resist. Even Queen Elizabeth!... READ MORE

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Beaches and Huîtres. Arcachon Discovered.

Guest Diary• September 22, 2022.

Barbara Hodes goes to Paris for la rentree starting the new season, and takes in the beaches on Arcachon Bay as well as the markets and shops... READ MORE

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

All in the family

Social Diary• September 21, 2022.

Monday night in New York, more back in town; a penthouse cocktail party celebrating a birthday, followed by a dinner party for forty celebrating our hero’s birthday... READ MORE

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

When downtown goes uptown and uptown gets down

Guest Diary• September 20, 2022.

Lee Fryd takes in a New York night: Glue guns, tiaras, baubles and beads and Machine Dazzle at the Museum of Arts and Design, then down to Chelsea for the opening of John C. Mack’s exhibition “A Species Between Worlds: Our Nature, Our Screens.”... READ MORE

Monday, September 19, 2022

Over the River and Through the Kitchen

Social Diary• September 19, 2022.

The season has begun, last night at the THE GRILL and THE POOL, the annual Sunday night fundraising dinner for the Cancer Research Institute... READ MORE

Memories abound at Clouds Hill as it celebrates its 150th anniversary

House• September 19, 2022.

Charles Burns takes us back in time to the second half of the 19th century when landmark homes, along the shoreline of Narragansett Bay, served as summer retreats for Rhode Island industrialists... READ MORE

Friday, September 16, 2022

Sashaying out of the Hamptons’ summer season

Guest Diary• September 16, 2022.

Lee Fryd says goodbye to summer, but not before rocking the SummerFest Gala at the Southampton Arts Center, journeying through the fragrant fields of India at Madoo, and dancing the night away at the Ellen Hermanson Summer Gala at the Hampton Racquet Club... READ MORE

Thursday, September 15, 2022

A Highlight of Newport Summer — A Weekend of Coaching

Party Pictures• September 15, 2022.

The Breakers was alive with 550 people celebrating Coaching Weekend in Newport, R.I., at a dinner dance in honor of the Whips to benefit The Preservation Society of Newport County... READ MORE

Walking back through time along the Serpentine Path at the Breakers

Guest Diary• September 15, 2022.

Stephanie Green takes a walk along the freshly reconstructed serpentine path that winds around The Breakers mansion property in Newport... READ MORE

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Luncheons, Lectures, and Lang Lang

Party Pictures• September 14, 2022.

Wethersfield Estate & Garden hosted their second Garden Luncheon; Lang Lang International Music Foundation's Young Scholars Concert; East Hampton Historical Society's sixth annual Summer Lecture Luncheon... READ MORE

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Heralding the arrival of New York Fashion Week

Social Diary• September 13, 2022.

The first luncheon of the Fashion season, the annual Couture Council of the Museum at FIT luncheon at Lincoln Center; sold out!... READ MORE

Monday, September 12, 2022

The end of an era for all of us

Social Diary• September 12, 2022.

Summation of a Royal Life, of a mother’s children and then her own, and all for her people... READ MORE

Friday, September 9, 2022

A place to call home, shelter dogs and all

Guest Diary• September 9, 2022.

Lee Fryd takes in the Hamptons Designer Showhouse that takes her into the subject of Your House. The home, the hearth, and the weather of the lives within. Plus Global Strays fourth annual benefit, teaching the next generation the importance of caring for our fellow animals... READ MORE

Thursday, September 8, 2022

No Holds Barred: Getting back to where we once belonged …

Guest Diary• September 8, 2022.

Blair Sabol takes a good hard look at September and what came before, and wonders what’s next. Maybe?... READ MORE

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

When Society was in Flower

Social Diary• September 7, 2022.

A view of the architectural monarch of the Gilded Age in summer, still going strong and up to date — Newport... READ MORE

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

The Focus of Social Economics

Social Diary• September 6, 2022.

With Fashion Week in New York upcoming, and fashion changing noticeably, we look back only fifteen years to see the changes... READ MORE

Monday, September 5, 2022

Resort Life, Chapter XXXVIII: January 1970 – December 1970 Palm Beach + Boca Grande + Down East + Brittany + Ireland

Palm Beach• September 5, 2022.

Labor Day Special. We look back to Ellen Ordway’s photographic record of a life and lives on these days in yesteryear... READ MORE

Friday, September 2, 2022

Family, Family, Family

Social Diary• September 2, 2022.

And we return to the literary legacy of Chips Channon whose 20th century diaries so capture the world of political power. Plus we revisit the legacy of a great New York family... READ MORE

Thursday, September 1, 2022

First signs and first visits

Social Diary• September 1, 2022.

Another piece of evidence of the difference between a photograph and real life... READ MORE

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Summer Ramble: Birthday Cake & Hard Hats @ Palm Beach

Palm Beach• August 31, 2022.

Augustus Mayhew celebrates Palm Beacher David Reese’s milestone 90th birthday dinner and can't help but take a look at the finishing touches being put on around the town... READ MORE

One Last Summer Travel Gasp