The Gilded Age Billionaires in 2 parts; Song of the South of France; No Questions Asked: Lost & Found at Palm Beach ... 
 

Birthdays, past and present


This week’s been “birthday time” around here along with a party dinner table and some other birthday stories that led to more stories that you’ll never forget.

 

The Gilded Age Billionaires, Part II


Part Two of New York mansions like palaces and the lives within, focusing on tales and tribulations of the earlier generations of Whitneys and their wealth.

 

The Gilded Age Billionaires, Part 1


Looking back on New York when what we would call moguls lived like emperors, high wide and handsome.

 

Song of the South of France


Barbara Hodes takes us to the South of France, on the sea and the towns all around. It’s a trip, and a pleasure or something to dream about.

 

No Questions Asked: Lost & Found at Palm Beach


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.

 
 
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