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PHIPPS FAMILY IN FLORIDA: A WORLD OF THEIR OWN, PART 1 OF 3

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Augustus Mayhew takes a deep dive into the Henry Phipps family’s prominent role in making South Florida an ultimate destination. A totally engaging, multifaceted narrative told in 3 parts... READ MORE
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Bringing a bit of PB to SH for good reason and better cause

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Karen and Hilary take us down to PB to get us dressed up for Southampton Hospital Foundation's "A Night at the Colony Hotel."... READ MORE
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All over the map on the Summer’s daze

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A Birthday bash for Martha Stewart up in Bedford; cocktails for the Historical Society of Palm Beach in Southampton; down the road and over a dune where PALMER magazine celebrated Harry Benson; A fabulous Greek Wedding; and a benefit eve for the Young Concert Artists of Washington, D.C... READ MORE
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No Questions Asked: Lost & Found at Palm Beach

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Archivist extraordinaire Augustus Mayhew will have you tumbling down an endless rabbit hole into an ephemeral diversion serving up several decades of Lost & Found classifieds in 'The Palm Beach Post' from 1916 until the 1940s... READ MORE
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Art Scenes: Fame, Fashion, & Feminism

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Augustus Mayhew, the great art and architectural historian, takes in the “Picturing Fame” fashion exhibit at Ft. Lauderdale’s NSU Art Museum of the past century’s illustrious couturiers before heading over to Miami’s Allapattah Arts District for the Women and Sculpture show at the Spinello Project. All Fabulous... READ MORE
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Here, there, and everywhere

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Prostate Cancer Foundation’s Palm Beach gala dinner kicked off PCF's annual Pro-Am Tennis & Golf Tournament; Simply From The Heart's “A Heartfelt Evening” at the Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse; Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens' annual Bamboo and Bonsai Gala... READ MORE
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Visions of Palm Beach

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Lighthouse Guild’s Annual Palm Beach Visionary Evening honored Jackie Weld Drake and James Borynack; The Historical Society of Palm Beach County's final Cocktails in Paradise event of the season, Designing Palm Beach... READ MORE
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The O’Keeffes at Palm Beach: Clare! Esther! Anita! Georgia! Eleanor!

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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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Still Bloomin’ in Palm Beach

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A taste of the good life and the good doin' down in Palm Beach... READ MORE
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Swifty’s Palm Beach Putting on the Glitz

Guest Diary
Those What-to-Wear girls Karen and Hilary are in Palm Beach for Swifty’s at the Colony New Year’s Eve bash and where What-to-Wear Where is always the story... READ MORE
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Palm Beach declares Addison Mizner Month!

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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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PB-MIA Social Diary ART SCENES

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Augustus Mayhew covers the annual art scene convergence in Palm Beach/Miami from Beth Rudin DeWoody’s Bunker Artspace to the Margulies Collection in Miami to other important exhibitions in West Palm and South Florida drawing the artists, the collectors and crowds taking it all in... READ MORE

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