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Our Escape from Life at Work, continued …
Guest Diary• October 19, 2020.Christine Schott and her husband George Ledes take a couple of days off from their work (at home) and visit friends in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and friends in Alpine, New Jersey. You’ll learn something you didn’t know. Something nice! ...

Escaping Life at Work
Guest Diary• September 24, 2020.Christine Schott visits the family estate of the Harriman family and the great lake house in Arden, NY, built in the latter part of the 19th century; Plus a visit to the Adirondacks house of Stanley Hutton Rumbough, Pine Cone Camp on Lake Simond in Tupper Lake...

A Colorful 100 Years of Tennis in Black & White
Palm Beach• September 2, 2020.As we head out to the U.S. Open this week, albeit virtually, Christine Schott highlights the lives of three centenarians — each of whom has shared a lifelong love of tennis: Dr. William Manger, Robert Ryland, and Ted Withall...

Palm Beach Social Diary: Lost Landscapes at Palm Beach
Palm Beach• August 4, 2020.Augustus Mayhew takes us on a tour beginning when it was a jungle island in the late 1870s when the shipwreck of the Providencia sailing from Cuba with 20,000 cocoanuts aboard piled up on the beach, and the settlers planted them on the grounds of their homesteads, and ultimately gave the island its name...