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Guest Diary• March 5, 2021

Schulenberg’s Page: Only in Manhattan!

Bob recalls the Summer in the city in ’75 with a brief visit to the Pines in Fire Island, and also at DPC’s house in Connecticut, and back to summer in Manhattan with lots going on...

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Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Private Railway Car

Social History• March 4, 2021.
Michael Grace writes about Luxury liners limited in the form of a grand private railroad car, built for and once the property of Marjorie Merriweather Post... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Icon: E. R. Bradley — Part II

Palm Beach• February 18, 2021.
Part II of Augustus Mayhew's profile of Palm Beach Icon, E.R. Bradley, who with his brother moved their gambling enterprises east to Chicago and Memphis where they moved their horses, and on to Palm Beach with late 19th century American enterprising... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Icon: E. R. Bradley — Part I

Palm Beach• February 17, 2021.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew presents part I of “The Fabulous Colonel”, Edward R. Bradley, the man who made Palm Beach an international destination for tycoons, heiresses and society at the beginning of the 20th century... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Time Machine

Palm Beach• February 11, 2021.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew takes us on a tour of the rise of modern architecture in Palm Beach... READ MORE
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PRN: A Florida Chapter

Palm Beach• January 25, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew remembers Paige Rense in Palm Beach as well as her brilliant career as the creator of Architectural Digest... READ MORE
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What a Swell Party it Was!

Social Diary• January 19, 2021.
Looking back on ole Manhattan will give your curiosity a trip to bountiful in another time and place (little ole New York)... READ MORE
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The Life and Times of Josephine Hartford, Part II

Social History• January 12, 2021.
The second and final installment on the life of Josephine Hartford, one of the richest American heiresses of the 20th century, by Charles Burns... READ MORE
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The life and times of Josephine Hartford, Part I

Social History• January 8, 2021.
The Life and Times of 20th century American Josephine Hartford, heiress to the enormous A&P supermarkets fortune, by Charlie Burns... READ MORE
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A Tale of New York Life

Social Diary• January 4, 2021.
Looking back to the year end 2000 and 2009 and one New Yorker who loved life in the Big Town... READ MORE
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Artescape at Winter Park, Part II

Palm Beach• November 17, 2020.
Augustus Mayhew’s art history tour continues at the Morse Museum of American Art beginning with Tiffany at Laurelton Hall, the country estate of Louis Comfort Tiffany... READ MORE
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Realtor’s Domain: Greenwich at Palm Beach, 1917-1925

Palm Beach• October 28, 2020.
Augustus Mayhew takes us on a historical relationship between Greenwich and Palm Beach... READ MORE
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My Love Affair with Chanel, Part III

Guest Diary• October 23, 2020.
Chanel, the legend, the woman revealed and real. The third and final chapter of Jackie Roger's "Love Affair with Chanel."... READ MORE

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