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Palm Beach Social Diary — Billionaires Row, Part III: Historic Widener’s Curve to Sloan’s Curve
Palm Beach• June 11, 2020.Augustus Mayhew takes on a detailed historical tour of the architecture of the rich that gave Palm Beach its international lure in the 20th century up to today. Part III of IV...
Palm Beach Social Diary: FORE! Golf Greats @ Seminole for COVID-19 Benefit
Palm Beach• May 17, 2020.In case you missed it: Today, the Seminole Golf Club is hosting a competitive charity golf event to benefit COVID-19 relief workers. Augustus Mayhew gives us the history of this great golf course with photos from the Ellen Glendinning Ordway Collection...
Oil Swells: The Standard Oil Crowd in Palm Beach
Palm Beach• March 6, 2020.Augustus Mayhew’s now classic history “Oil Swells: The Standard Oil Crowd in Palm Beach” around the turn of the 19th century to the 20th, when the new industry was comparable to the tech industry around the turn of the 20th to the 21st. La plus ca change .....
This Was Then: The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Dinner with D.V.”
Social History• January 23, 2020.A piece of New York fashion history, a page out of only yesterday, Mary Hilliard’s report on the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum’s “Dinner With DV” (Diana Vreeland) on December 7, 1987...
A Debutante’s Diary, Part II: 1920-1921 From Engagement to Honeymoon to First Born
Social History• January 7, 2020.Take a trip with your imagination to another place, another time, a moment in history in someone’s life when everything was not only all right, but fabulous, in Part Il of Ellen Ordway’s photo memoir, “A Debutante’s Diary, Part II, 1920-1921." ...
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