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Palm Beach• October 1, 2021

Rocket launched @ Historic IBM Campus

Augustus Mayhew attended the dedication of Rocket in Boca Raton, the work of sculptor Hubert Phipps with expectations bordering on indifference. Result: shock, sensational ... and why?...

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On Having Met Mr. Capote

Social Diary• September 15, 2021.
A new and well-received documentary about the famous author evoked a personal memory of “Having Met Mr. Capote.”... READ MORE
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Turning back the clock

Social Diary• September 13, 2021.
Remembering the day brought back memories of another loss for many who knew Judy Green, who left this earth just four days after the towers fell... READ MORE
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The Gilded Cage, Part III: Bula Edmondson Croker

Palm Beach• September 8, 2021.
Augustus Mayhew takes on a tale of a Palm Beach marriage and an odyssey between a Tammany Hall boss and a Native-American artist, from an ocean-front cottage to an Irish castle, from the heights to mortgage foreclosures and bankruptcy... READ MORE
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Darker Memories

Social Diary• September 2, 2021.
A Diary about a darker time in our late 20th century American history... READ MORE
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ART MECCA: PALM BEACH AU GO GO

Palm Beach• August 26, 2021.
Palm Beach Social Diary. Augustus Mayhew gives us a special tour of the Art Mecca with some surprising local masterpieces. ... READ MORE
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A family tale of epic proportions

Social Diary• August 25, 2021.
A family tale of epic proportions of a man whose ambition affected the lives of six succeeding generations... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part II

Social Diary• August 24, 2021.
Part II with Steppin’ in Society in a faster world of publicity and glamour ripe for scandals and on to the new world of today... READ MORE
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Steppin’ in Society, Part I

Social Diary• August 23, 2021.
A Cole Porter song in my head led me to a long term look at the world of American Society and where it went in the new century... READ MORE
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Ciao Palm Beach: Italian Accents

Palm Beach• August 19, 2021.
Palm Beach Social Diary. It’s the late 1930s when the world is about to change, but just before the Italian nobles had come to prominence and marriages with American heiresses. Augustus Mayhew records it... READ MORE
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The Life and Times of Billy McCarty-Cooper

Social Diary• August 3, 2021.
Part 3. The Epicurean Life. Billy McCarty Cooper. The end of the story, and the great Cooper Cubist Art Collection... READ MORE
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Anatomy of the Collector

Social Diary• August 2, 2021.
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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Billy; An Epicurean Life Late 20th Century

Social Diary• July 29, 2021.
Looking into past lives, a world emerges with other players and other casts, all related even deeply... READ MORE

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