Social History
Social History• May 3, 2023

This Was Then: The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Dinner with D.V.”

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...

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Part III: The Life and Times of Billy McCarty-Cooper

Social Diary• March 23, 2023.
The final chapter of Billy McCarty Cooper and his life with Douglas Cooper and the history of the world’s greatest Cubist Art Collection... READ MORE
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Part II: Billy and Douglas; Anatomy of the Collector

Social Diary• March 22, 2023.
An Epicurean life in the form of Douglas Cooper, a brilliant and difficult man, one of the century’s greatest modern art collectors; Controversial, complicated, yet with a brilliant eye, and a spectacular collector of modern art. Part II of III... READ MORE
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Part I: Billy McCarty-Cooper; An Epicurean Life

Social Diary• March 21, 2023.
Billy’s story, part 1 of 3; an ambitious boy from a small town conquers the big world and the ways of men. Fate is watching... READ MORE
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Remember

Guest Diary• March 9, 2023.
Louis Nelson takes us on a tour of the War Memorials including the Korean War Veterans Memorial Mural, which he designed, to underline their importance to all of us... READ MORE
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The Rise and Fall of the Stotesburys

Social Diary• March 6, 2023.
A September song for a brilliant banker and a lovely widow who turned their marriage into a royal event that disappeared with fate and the economy of the world... READ MORE
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The O’Keeffes at Palm Beach: Clare! Esther! Anita! Georgia! Eleanor!

Palm Beach• February 27, 2023.
Augustus Mayhew takes us on an historical expedition of The O’Keeffe’s of Palm Beach; in particular one woman who was key in its gilded development that continues a century later. ... READ MORE
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Following History as it plays

Social Diary• February 10, 2023.
A long road of Royal sadness finally achieved a change in private relationship of King Charles III in his marriage to Queen Camilla... READ MORE
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Journey to the Abyss

Social Diary• January 3, 2023.
Hunting through my bookshelves looking to reduce the books on the shelves I came upon "The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880 - 1918" and couldn’t put it down for the rest of the day... READ MORE
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Palm Beach declares Addison Mizner Month!

Palm Beach• December 12, 2022.
Today is the 150th birthday of Addison Mizner, the architect who designed more than 60 houses and buildings with a vision that still defines Palm Beach to this day. Augustus Mayhew, PB’s historian, tells the incredible history of the man and his work... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social History: Avant-Garde Flashback

Palm Beach• November 3, 2022.
Augustus Mayhew considering Miami Art Basel is reminded of PB’s art colony when the creative pioneers were Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Velma Glenn Hodges. They weren’t kidding either... READ MORE
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Palm Beach Social History: Society Afloat @ Palm Beach

Palm Beach• October 14, 2022.
Augustus Mayhew takes on his investigation of Palm Beach’s history in the social world of both America and Europe gathering... READ MORE
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The man who made the castle

Social Diary• October 4, 2022.
A weekend benefit party in San Simeon at the Hearst castle La Cuesta Encantada recalls the history of the man and the family who built an American empire of plenty... READ MORE

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