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Travel• February 25, 2020

Three days of spectacular revelry at the Carnevale Gala in Venice

Mary Hilliard covers (and photographs) Save Venice’s Carnevale Gala, “All the World’s A Stage,” in Venice, Italy. Costume balls, exhibitions, dinners in ancient palazzos and a trip through the cultural treasures of Save Venice’s assistance...

Gathering in the Arabian desert for the Hegra Conference of Nobel Laureates

Travel• February 24, 2020.

Sharon Hoge is back from an incredible sojourn in Saudi Arabia where Nobel Laureates, Saudi nobles, business executives, and scientists assembled in an amazing desert region strategizing how to involve the lessons of heritage into future development... READ MORE

THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF VERSAILLES Tour the Marche Region of Italy

Travel• January 10, 2020.

Sharon King Hoge takes us on the American Friends of Versailles tour of the Marche Region of Italy of the heritage of architectural and garden design that contributed to Louis XIV’s grand palace Versailles. An amazing tour of late Roman and early renaissance history along the Adriatic Coast... READ MORE

A Night of Triumph; The firestorm surrounding Safari West

Travel• October 8, 2019.

Paige Peterson recounts the story of the great Northern California fire two years ago today, and how it threatened the 1000 animals of the Safari West Wildlife Preserve... READ MORE

Clinging to the last of the summer days in majestic Maine

Travel• September 15, 2019.

Stephanie Green takes us on a road trip to the Southern Maine Coast of Kennebunkport, Ogunquit and York for the last days of summer where nothing compares to the gardens and flowers as the season is fleeting... READ MORE

Growing Up Belvedere

Travel• August 20, 2019.

Paige Peterson takes us to her hometown with a photo tour of its history, Belvedere, California. A beauty you’ll remember... READ MORE

Sicily and the Coast of Many Cultures

Travel• July 22, 2019.

Barbara Hodes is drawn to Sicily, having explored the island several times. But on this occasion she's decided to try a different piece of the amazing island. And has much to share... READ MORE

Art Weekend in Richmond Celebrating Elizabeth Locke

Travel• May 17, 2019.

Elizabeth Locke invited close friends to Richmond, Virginia, to celebrate the opening of “A Return to the Grand Tour: Micromosaic Jewels from the Collection of Elizabeth Locke” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts... READ MORE

Hôtel de la Marine: Monument to the Art of French Living

Travel• April 26, 2019.

Paris lives on as Delia von Neuschatz discovers the palatial Hôtel de la Marine, which is currently undergoing a €100 million renovation and will again, in the spring of 2020, begin showcasing the French “art de vivre.”... READ MORE

Italian Class: Urban Visions

Travel• March 19, 2019.

Augustus Mayhew still in Italy, sets his camera and his inquiring eye this time in Milan, Turin, and Venice... READ MORE

La Belle Époque: Splendor in the Past

Travel• March 11, 2019.

Whether 1900 or 2000 every generation has its Belle Époque as past centuries end and new ones begin. For author Thomas Mann’s character Gustav Aschenbach in Death in Venice, an obsession with Beauty leads him to the luxuriousness of the Grand Hotel des Bain on Venice’s Lido. Closed for many years, last year COIMA, a […]... READ MORE

2019 Carnevale Venezia: Blame it on the Moon

Travel• March 6, 2019.

Since my Venice architectural reconnaissance was planned as a pre-Carnivale miss-all-the-crowds jaunt, imagine my surprise arriving to find Venice SRO, and then some. Fortunately, decided on the out-of-the-way Santa Croce district’s Hotel San Cassiano, away from the festive, sort of, and far from the 21st century and the 19th. Very olde Venic... READ MORE

My Valentine from Paris

Travel• March 4, 2019.

Dear diary, on the 25th I will be 63 and I have finally been to The City of Light! It’s thanks to two charming young friends. It was a glorious gift and Paris is certainly astonishing! But, I ought to have gone so much sooner. How splendid, though, that on St. Valentine’s Day, dining alone, […]... READ MORE

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Three days of spectacular revelry at the Carnevale Gala in Venice

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