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Guest Diary• August 9, 2020

JILL KREMENTZ PHOTO JOURNAL: IN TRANSIT

Looking back on pre-COVID times when getting about wasn’t so fraught...

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No Holds Barred: What goes up must come down

Guest Diary• August 7, 2020.
Blair Sabol takes a good hard look at getting around during the pandemic, including flying, as well as driving distances (such as cross country) and what people are doing to protecting themselves... READ MORE
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If she could see us all now

Social Diary• August 5, 2020.
Looking back on the Diary at this time last year, we came upon a “can’t-resist” piece by Denis Ferrara on the legendary Marilyn Monroe, and the memories her life and death evoke. ... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social Diary: Lost Landscapes at Palm Beach

Palm Beach• August 4, 2020.
Augustus Mayhew takes us on a tour beginning when it was a jungle island in the late 1870s when the shipwreck of the Providencia sailing from Cuba with 20,000 cocoanuts aboard piled up on the beach, and the settlers planted them on the grounds of their homesteads, and ultimately gave the island its name... READ MORE
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Jill Krementz Photo Journal: “City Sidewalks … Pretty Sidewalks …”

Guest Diary• August 3, 2020.
East Side, West side — Sidewalks all around the Town... READ MORE
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Isabelo Satori

House• July 31, 2020.
Before these strange times when you could go a-visiting, Sian and Lesley interviewed the designer Isabelo Satori at the Carroll Gardens home he shares with his husband Cort Cunningham... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: The vibrantly alive city!

Guest Diary• July 29, 2020.
Screams and teams and artful seams, Bob sees everything in Manhattan and out of town in late Spring of 1974... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: Learning to live with “it”

Guest Diary• July 28, 2020.
Blair Sabol talks about Covid in our lives and going with the flow, finding your own “risk” level in daily life; and some advice from Roz Chast. ... READ MORE
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It’s Great To Be Gilded Again

Guest Diary• July 27, 2020.
Want to get out of New York for a weekend, a week or two? Barbara Hodes rented a house in Lenox, Mass., and took in the sites and the towns and the pleasure of being there mid-summer... READ MORE
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Big Old Houses: Stanford White Experiments

House• July 24, 2020.
Big Old House returns to John Foreman’s visit to Naumkeag, the summer estate in Stockbridge of the most distinguished New York lawyer, Joseph Choate, and an early commission of Stanford White, then in his 20s... READ MORE
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Schulenberg’s Page: Selling the sizzle and not the steak

Guest Diary• July 23, 2020.
It’s May 1974 in New York, and Bob’s in the thick of what it was like to be an artist and living here, selling the sizzle and not the steak... READ MORE
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Wellness is the New Luxury

Palm Beach• July 22, 2020.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Christine Schott covers the territory for what Palm Beachers are doing to avoid Covid-19... READ MORE
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No Holds Barred: Follow the money

Guest Diary• July 21, 2020.
Blair Sabol looks at the Ghislaine Maxwell story and concludes the whole world needs her to “stay alive.”... READ MORE

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