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Palm Beach• December 16, 2021

Palm Beach Confidential: The Windsors and The FBI (1940-1942)

Augustus Mayhew recounts the time the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were courted in Palm Beach where the FBI files were thick with confidential letters and telegrams claiming the Windsors were suspected Nazi spies, making for a delicious, if not illusory, chapter of Palm Beach’s social history...

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Palm Beach Style

Palm Beach• December 12, 2021.
A new book, SLIM AARONS: STYLE; Aerin Lauder's "Conversation on Style" at The Four Arts; Ala Von Auersperg's Custom Kaftans ... and more about Palm Beach "Style."... READ MORE
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Miami Art Week: Art Icons Mira Lehr + Martin Z. Margulies

Palm Beach• December 8, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew takes in Miami’s Art Basel with the Miami art world’s groundbreakers artist Mira Lehr and collector Martin Margulies holding center stage... READ MORE
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What’s New at Palm Beach … kind of

Palm Beach• December 1, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew takes us on a trip into the annals of keeping Palm Beach the gem that it’s always been, and now because it’s growing, how they keep its mystique... READ MORE
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Thanksgiving in Palm Beach

Palm Beach• November 28, 2021.
For many Palm Beachers, this iconic photo by Slim Aarons really evokes Thanksgiving weekend. Friends, family and children, elegantly or sportily dressed, gathered together for some fun in the sun — which at any moment can turn into madness under the palms, becoming family lore for generations. This Thanksgiving, we were invited to the iconic [&he... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Art Scene Looking Younger

Palm Beach• November 14, 2021.
Kameron Ramirez and Nick Hissom's VIP Opening for Aktion Art featuring the work of Artist Connor Addison; Junior Committee kick-off event for the Compass Center event honoring Designer Alfred Fiandaca; Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism at The Norton Museum of Art... READ MORE
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Preseason in Palm Beach

Palm Beach• October 31, 2021.
In case you missed it ... A beautiful wedding in Nantucket; a gentleman farmer; Lewis Miller's Flower Flash; the restaurant scene; and more Preseason in Palm Beach... READ MORE
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Art + History: Boca Raton museums launch season

Palm Beach• October 27, 2021.
Art and architecture connoisseur Augustus Mayhew takes us to Boca Raton for its Museum of Art’s world premiere of Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru exhibition... READ MORE
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Palm Beach, Esq. + Historical Society adds photo collection

Palm Beach• October 14, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew delivers a Palm Beach story about an Irish American boy, a real multi-disciplinary who was the gentleman guide/savior of the community. ... READ MORE
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Rocket launched @ Historic IBM Campus

Palm Beach• October 1, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew attended the dedication of Rocket in Boca Raton, the work of sculptor Hubert Phipps with expectations bordering on indifference. Result: shock, sensational ... and why?... READ MORE
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The Gilded Cage, Part III: Bula Edmondson Croker

Palm Beach• September 8, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew takes on a tale of a Palm Beach marriage and an odyssey between a Tammany Hall boss and a Native-American artist, from an ocean-front cottage to an Irish castle, from the heights to mortgage foreclosures and bankruptcy... READ MORE
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ART MECCA: PALM BEACH AU GO GO

Palm Beach• August 26, 2021.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew gives us a special tour of the Art Mecca with some surprising local masterpieces. ... READ MORE
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Ciao Palm Beach: Italian Accents

Palm Beach• August 19, 2021.
Palm Beach Social Diary. It’s the late 1930s when the world is about to change, but just before the Italian nobles had come to prominence and marriages with American heiresses. Augustus Mayhew records it... READ MORE

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