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his Amistad map; Contributor Jonathan Young; Grateful Pub’s Adirondack office; Wethersfield Way in Amenia, NY; behind the scenes with Julie Skarratt photographing Oakleigh Thorne; Jaclene, George, and Ben Ginnel; Columnist Taki Theodoracopulos; portraits of Beekman, Schemerhorn, and Stevens ancestors inside Obercreek; Columnist Jamie MacGurie a.k.a. Audax.
AS I WRITE from my office cabin on Lake George (“The War Room”, see above) we’re experiencing a welcomed spate of Indian Summer weather, as the crisp feel of Fall returns to the Adirondacks. Up North, it’s considered the most glorious season of the year, just before the iPhone armed leafpeepers start showing up for their corny Instagram moments. The last few months up here have been as dry as a moose bone, so the striking autumn colors will arrive a bit late this year. But it hasn’t bothered our beloved loons (now mating) and the cooling lake temperature is honestly envigorating (I dipped at day break, in placid sunshine and a bracing 66.3f). Looming thoughts about my Manhattan return bring renewed appreciation for the sanctuary of a simpler life outdoors - the “country life” which Quest celebrates in the issue you hold. Our focus is trained on the revitalized community outreach and philanthropic spirit that’s emerged up and down the historic Hudson Valley, bordering that same fabled body of turgid water that flows southward from its tiny source in the Adirondacks, Lake Tear of the Clouds -- a mere pool of glacial water hidden in the pine forests of New York State’s highest mountain, Mt Marcy.
For this October’s Field & Country issue, we sent a trio of talented beauties up the very same route of Henry Hudson’s legendary journey. Combining Julie Skarratt’s eagle eyed camera with Brooke Murray’s wordsmithing skills and Elizabeth Meigher’s innate rustic style, these three “tomboys” explored the conservation efforts brewing in Bedford’s John Jay Homestead ... in Amenia’s incomparable Wethersfield Gardens ... and in Millbrook proper where Oakleigh Thorne, a sixth generation scion (and former captain of Quest’s gifted polo team) is personally overseeing the restoration of both the Thorne Building (erected by his family in the 1890s) and the charmingly landscaped gardens of Bennett Park - the former site of Bennett Junior College, once a haven of fun loving college girls in the 1960s/70s, each one of them prettier than the next! Further along in this Hudson Valley number you’ll find Jamie MacGuire’s return to Obercreek Farm where “Audax” met up with his childhood friend, Alex Reese, a seventh generation Livingston descendant who now owns and manages the family farm ... and brewery. Jamie was equally struck by the centuries-old correspondence of Ebeneezer Stevens, a somewhat overlooked but bona fide Founding Father who appears on the maternal side of Reese’s distinguished family.
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chief of The Field - the most revered media staple of English sporting life. Jonathan has interviewed the esoteric map maker, Anthony Pelly, whose bespoke and handsomely designed estate maps are highly sought after by plantation, estate, and ranch owners throughout Europe and America. Pelly’s classical masterpieces visually tell a tale -- preserving the culture and foundation of our “places”.
And please don’t miss noble (and best-selling author) Taki’s column, where he eviscerates the liberal outrage as: “the subversive ripping-apart of our National identity ... where any speech they don’t agree with becomes ‘hate speech.’” As a veteran pub of legacy publications (TIME & LIFE) and early digital media (AOL), I am dismayed by the fuss being made over the inappropriate rambling of a burned-out talk show host. With some due respect, there was no endangerment here to our First Amendment, nor any serious attempt to silence our right to free speech. In full reality, it was the bitter failure of a comedian whose ratings and viewership plummeted when he became unfunny; in his case, the market had spoken, and loudly so.
So now I prepare, reluctantly, to leave my favorite lake - ever more convinced that Thoreau had it right: “there exists a solemn truth in outdoor life, with its plain appeal to the senses.” Moreover, there’s a refreshing lack of cancel-culture and unnecessary threats to our hardearned American values. We tend to laugh more in the country, which is indeed God’s therapy. ◆
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ON THE COVER: Oakleigh Thorne in front of Thorne Building in Millbrook, New York. Photographed by Julie Skarratt.
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THIS MONTH’S DIARY is steeped in history. A background of another time and all in the same, always changing space; and pace. This month is devoted to two stories of lives not-so-long-ago.
My father idolized her father. I grew up hearing his name, although this was decades before he became
famous as the “father of…”. He was always referred to either as Bouvier or Black Jack Bouvier. Whenever my father said his name, there was romance and adventure, a stature and dash
in the sound of his voice. Alas, just a dash. It resonates in my mind’s ears to this day because it was like an oasis in the otherwise bleak and angry landscape that was my father’s life and household.
Back in the late 1920s when he was a young man, and long before I was born, he had been Black Jack Bouvier’s driver. From his descriptions of the man, my childhood sensibilities forever picture a handsome figure who loved the grand, fast life. They’d race Bouvier’s Stutz Bearcat with my father at the
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wheel going 90 and even a hundred miles an hour, out to East Hampton. That’s fast today but it was a lot faster 65 years ago. To me, it was like a passage out of F. Scott Fitzgerald
My father didn’t think much of the missus. He referred to her derisively, in his typically Irish way, by pronouncing her second husband’s name Ark-in-clarse More than once he recounted that because of her, there had been a fistfight, way back then, between the two men— Bouvier and Auchincloss — one night in the parking lot of the Bathing Corporation in Southampton.
Bouvier won, of course. Our hero. At least in my father’s version of the story, ignoring the fact that Auchin-
closs “got the girl.” My father also never said “boo” about Black Jack’s peccadillos, let alone their effect on the Bouvier marriage.
I was a young man before I heard the first name of either Bouvier daughter. Jacqueline was world famous before I knew that it was her father, and not her mother, who had made a mess of the happy home Jackie never grew up in. Coincidentally, it was at this time that I also learned that my own father had long before brought a new meaning to the word adultery. It was only natural that he would
cover for the memory of his former boss.
I never knew Mrs. Onassis. I never met her, nor was I ever in the same room with her. I know a number of people who did know her, and a few who knew her well, or as well it would seem, as one could. I often heard many of these friends and acquaintances talk about her, particularly her foibles and personality, which is what almost all people like to talk about anyway.
It was always interesting. The little girl voice, they said, was for the world. There was another voice, no matter how
quotidian, which seemed somehow remarkable in the retelling by those who had been in her company. She was a historical person to me, rather than a real person. Therefore, I had no expectations of who she should be or how she should act. I accepted her on her terms. I felt she was owed this considering what she’d been through in her life with President Kennedy.
I never thought of her as saintly, as many quickly and absurdly did after John Kennedy’s death. She was a woman who had to make sharp, tough choices in her life. Most women do, it is true, although most women don’t have to do it with the world staring at them. However, it turned out that she had a
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talent for publicly putting a good face on things. It was to everyone’s advantage including the American people.
It may well have been honed in that childhood of sharp dissension between her mother and father. She bore the burden, as children do, of cherishing a father who had lost control of his life and never regained it. But she was irrepressible and she had grace.
Her life had developed into a large and fascinating canvas. Her choice of Onassis as a second husband clearly articulated a certain aspect of her. As did her choice of Jack Kennedy. With Kennedy she was beautiful, and enchanting, and the world’s princess.
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However, with Onassis she suddenly seemed frivolous, tabloidal, the ultimate shopper. After Onassis, she transformed again. She went to work. She was a serious single parent who reared her children well. The public resumed their reverence— this time for keeps.
Unlike a lot of New Yorkers who’d seen her dozens, maybe hundreds of times—because she was so out there despite the privacy she serenely commanded—I saw her only on three different occasions.
The first was on Madison Avenue in the East 80s in the
late 1970s, on a still snowless, but grey, early winter’s afternoon. I was walking north when I spotted up ahead on the other side of the street a brunette woman moving unusually quickly south through the crowd by walking in the actual roadside edge. Her gait was strong and almost athletic, and she looked like she was enjoying her breezing by the crowded sidewalk. As we reached parallel spots on the sidewalk, I recognized her, looking exactly like a photograph in a magazine.
She was wearing a Burb-
erry coated belted at the waist, dark stockings, and low-heeled shoes. Her gait was strong, wide, and quick. Her calves were muscular but slender and her arms swung decisively naturally.
As she reached the west corner, she turned and quickly but beautifully crossed, keeping the same gait, head high, the eyes on the beautiful face looking strait ahead to her objective.
I stopped to watch this dynamic figure who moved with such precise but easy determination. She’d made a dash across the avenue to beat a changing traffic light. She darted eastward between cars with an athlete’s agility, and then disappeared
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lickety-split down East 83rd Street towards Park Avenue. It was a powerful, astonishing presence; a pleasure to see.
The second time that I spotted her was about six years later. I happened to be walking by 1040 Fifth Avenue about 11:30 one morning in the Springtime. A limousine was waiting next to the canopy. Traffic jammed the avenue. Everything was stopped for the light. In the lane next to the waiting limousine, the Fifth Avenue bus was waiting for the green light to move. The billboard on the side of the bus had an ad for a local newspaper serial. It was a picture of JFK and the words in the big white print against a black background: “Who Really Killed JFK?”
Then, almost as if it were a surreal scene out of a movie
instead of real life, his widow suddenly emerged from her building, a doorman escorting her to the waiting car with the billboard on the stopped bus directly in her line of sight. Whether she saw it was impossible to determine. I would hope that she didn’t. But to this passerby it was a shocking reminder of her past and the memories that she had to live with.
Several years later a friend told me about going with Jackie to interview a famous singer (Barbra Streisand) in the hope of signing her up to write her autobiography. During their meeting the singer had not given a public
concert in years and Jackie asked her why. Streisand started to explain that the last concert she had given many years before was outdoors in Central Park and at the time she found herself on the open-air stage fearing a sniper’s bullet from a skyline rooftop.
Suddenly, at that moment in her recollection, Streisand must have realized whom she was telling this story to. She stopped and apologized. She then recalled for the slain President’s widow what we all recall about ourselves – where she was at that moment on November 22, 1963.
Jackie said nothing and the
subject passed. The conversation continued unmarred by any more awkwardness. After the meeting, the friend asked Jackie how she felt about the singer’s gaffe. Jackie confided that it was a common occurrence in her life, that strangers often would come up to her on the street to offer sympathy, always recalling where they were at that fatal moment.
“What they don’t realize,” she told her friend, “is that I also remember where I was on that day.”
Then how, the friend asked, did Jackie handle such an unconsciously insensitive assault?
“A steel door comes down before my eyes,” she replied, “and I shut it out.”
The only other time I saw her was one weekday on Fifth
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Avenue I happened to be crossing 58th Street by the Plaza Fountain when turning to watch for oncoming cars, I noticed her coming out of the side door of Bergdorf’s, carrying shopping bags to a waiting dark emerald green Buick sedan.
A driver in light grey suit and cap was holding the car door for her as she backed into the seat with the shopping bags on both sides of her. It was a private moment. He was speaking to her with a smile on his face, as if chiding her about about the full-tothe-top bags. She slipped into the back seat with her packages, smiling with an expression of mock guilt. There was a kindness and a sweetness in
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the way she looked up at him. There was none of that stony hauteur or grim self-importance that often marks the countenance of so many of her social peers when they are being served. Again, it was that natural grace.
The night of her passing someone told me a story, perhaps apocryphal, but nevertheless appropriate for the sad moment, about Nixon’s visit to China and his meeting with Mao. The two men sat next to one another in those big chairs with the big arms surrounded by their lieutenants
and interpreters. The Chairman, old and infirm, stared straight ahead, still and silent. Nixon, no champion of casual conversation himself, was hard put to engage the dying dictator. He brought up the assassination of Kennedy and the effect it had on this country. Then he inquired of Chairman Mao as to how he thought things would have turned out for the world if, instead of Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev had been killed.
The sphinx-like Chinese leader sat there unblinking for several moments. Then, without turning to his guest to an-
swer the question, he admitted that he didn’t know what the outcome might have been. But, he added, he did know one thing for sure: Mr. Onassis wouldn’t have married Mrs. Khrushchev.
It was a life like no other in this century. Millions and millions admired and related to her. Her adulthood was marked by prominent relationships that made her more famous and made her rich. But neither, ironically, could have made her happy. However, she had pluck and seemed to have found happiness in her children, her work as a book editor and eventually in a less than traditional but very happy relationship with Maurice Tempelsman
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I am reminded of the list that ran in one of the Washington papers of who were the guests who stayed at the White House the night before the march to the burial ground with the leadership of the world behind her. Only two non-family members were on the list. Aristotle Onassis, and Maurice Tempelsman. I am reminded of Jackie’s primary relationship with her father.
The public could speculate, as they did, that she found a successful way to get beyond the horrors of her destiny. Perhaps that is why so many of us strangers felt the grief one feels only for a loved one. It was as if everybody had been robbed by fate — us, her family, her loved ones, and especially Jackie herself.
And so it was, my thoughts over time and “relationship” to the former First Lady.
Wednesday, September 3, 2025. Nice out in New York with temps in the comfortable mid-70s and dropping to the low-60s by late night. The town was still noticeably quiet to these eyes and ears. Then about another week in my neighborhood the schools were opening, their seasons of the New Year coming. In another week or two the calendar will start to fill up as only it can.
Also I happened to pass by a big Barnes & Noble bookstore on the corner of 87th and Third Avenue. I had to make a stop just to see what the marketplace looked like. It was very busy, which surprised me on a weekday when the city is in play and the roads
are jammed 8 to 5. I was surprised: it has a huge collection and there were a lot of people looking at an enormous collection of new books (or at least books I’ve never seen before). If you like bookstores, this one is hot.
And busy midday mid-week in New York, all ages, sizes, and rages.
I came upon a beautiful booksize softover Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy and I realized that I’d never given a thought to what came before in her life. I didn’t know her, obviously, but I had a sense of her as a person as my father worked for her father, the famous, Black Jack Bouvier,
who was his favorite and favored boss back in the day. I bought the book, and over the weekend I had a look, not certain that I would spend much time there. I am an admirer of the woman although now having read a number of chapters, I’m fascinated.
I now understand who she was. Brilliant for one, but very much involved in her life as an individual learning, curious, knowledgeable, curious. She was ambitious early on. It was probably developed by both parents, separately not together. Her mother was the “first generation” in terms of social prominence. Her father had the family background above that. He also was obsessed with his daughter. Her mother could be difficult and mainly thinking of herself and her relationship to the social world. His message engaged
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his daughter’s interest – which naturally flattered him.
I see her completely differently, fascinated. I haven’t finished but she was special; she is and always was Special in the sense of having earned her way, the world she became part of. Her father was deeply influential, as if she was his prize and he felt lucky for it.
Aside from Jack Kennedy, she was always the woman the world watched lead the mourners to the gravesite of her murdered husband. When that was over, she moved on to the world around her and around all of us. In the very end when she was waiting for fate to take her, she had the presence and companionship that kept her world around her.
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Mrs. Williams, Mona, later Mona, Countess Bismarck, was married to one of the world’s richest men, a utility magnate with a fortune before the ’29 Crash estimated at $700 million (or $70 billion in today’s currency). She and her husband lived in the house on 94th and Fifth built by Delano and Aldrich for Willard Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney, and in Palm Beach and Bayville.
Barbara Hutton, known in the press and to the public as the “Poor Little Rich Girl,” was the Woolworth heiress who in the late 1920s inher-
ited about a half a billion (in today’s currency) when she was a child, and later owned houses all over the world (including Winfield House in London which is now the American Ambassador’s residence). Famous for her extravagance and multitude of husbands, she was an object of fascination and resentment by the public and the press. But they were only two of the clamoring crowd who populated the social scene of those times. The term “socialite” was a code word, invented about 1928 by Briton Hadden, Henry Luce’s Yale classmate and partner in their
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invention TIME magazine. The word meant rich, and maybe a little racy. It meant play not work in what was essentially a Puritanical society. They were ostensibly the “leisure class,” gentlemen of leisure, ladies of leisure. They were the babies of the last of the Victorians where people lived off the “fat of the land,” namely their land of banks and stocks and bonds.
Hadden was a wordsmith and the term was breezy and smart-alecky, reflecting the “who cares” economic euphoria America was swimming in the late 1920s. The automotive age was in full swing; the country was getting out and about drinking bootleg liquor and bathtub gin. It was Prohibition in name (and law) only because
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people were boozing everywhere and flaunting it (breaking the law), and even killing themselves with it. In Manhattan, the flappers and the jazz babies, dressed to kill, were out on the town, hitting the speaks, celebrating the new freedom, dancing and drinking up a storm.
The socialites were the coolest—a word not yet then in the vernacular—of the pack because they had nothing but time and money. They frequented first the speakeasies, and then after the Repeal of Prohibition, the clubs like the Stork and El Morocco. They dressed to the nines — the women in gowns and jewels and the men in white tie or black tie. They mingled with theatre people and movie stars who aped their style, adding dash and glamour to it. They
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were the “socialites.”
A good many of them were new rich, not listed in the Social Register, the social bible of the first half of the 20th century which would eliminate people from their pages because of their nightlife or their marriages and divorces.
But the nouveau riche mainly imitated the manners, if not the mores of the Old Guard, except they flashed their wealth around more publicly.
The Second World War changed everything, creating a more dynamic and broader “society.” The country had finally come out of the Depression and wealth became more widely
distributed. The mass popularity of radio brought Americans coast-to-coast together. The airplane shortened travel time and the “socialite” began to associate with the upperclasses in Europe and South America who were often charmed by the rich Americans. Women like Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton spread their wealth among men (they married) from distant shores, with their alliances lighting up headlines in the same way movie stars romances did. Hutton and Duke even married the same man (Porfirio Rubirosa), a Dominican “diplomat” who was famous for his astounding priapic prowess said to be beyond compare.
Neither heiress remained married for very long to the Latin playboy, who in an earlier age of society would have been referred to frankly as a gigolo, but he departed with buckets of cash, cars, an airplane and all kinds of trinkets — homage to his personal asset.
By the 1950s, many who had once been known as “socialites” (as opposed to “real” society) had become “real” society. And when the scion of a wealthy old family, like Woodward or Rockefeller (Winthrop) married blonde showgirls/actresses, their wives were immediatey embraced by their social peers.
The world had become a smaller, more democratic place and generally speaking “socialites” had become the new society. And so when William
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“It takes a master to tell your story well.”
For interior designer Gil Walsh, design is both craft and art. “A well-designed room is like a painting,” she reflects. “You look at the canvas, pick up your brush, put it away, and come back to perfect it.”
Originally from Pennsylvania, Walsh moved to Martha’s Vineyard nearly 20 years ago, leaving a lasting imprint on the island’s design landscape. One of her most personal projects is her previous own studio—a former garage transformed into a sanctuary of creativity and style.
Inside, pine-paneled walls, hand-laid brick floors, and beadboard detailing rise from floor to ceiling, wrapping the space in warmth. Climb the stairs and you’ll find a light-filled office with tables for spreading fabrics, a library of design inspiration, and an angled ceiling detailed by Joseph W. Dick Architecture Inc., with construction by Timothy McHugh Builders and Arthur Sierputoski Contractors. Even the stair railing, custom cut to perfectly fit the palm, reflects Walsh’s devotion to detail. Throughout the studio, repurposed antiques
and whimsical vintage finds—a rocking horse transformed into a donkey sculpture, a barber shop pole—bring charm and character. Layered cushions, pillows, and bursts of color add Walsh’s signature vibrancy, creating a space that feels as inspired as the designs that were born within it.
It is a place that quietly declares: “Style lives here.”
For more of Gil Walsh’s vision, visit our headquarters in West Palm Beach—the heart of where artistry and elegance meet.
Woodward Jr., son of the founder of the Hanover Bank (later absorbed after several mergers into what is now called Citicorp) was shot to death by his former-showgirl wife in what was reported to be an accident and decades later revealed (through Truman Capote) to be cold-blooded murder, his social dowager mother, Elsie Woodward, took her murderous daughter-in-law under wing (“for the sake of the children”) as if to let bygones be bygones. Almost 25 years later, the widow Woodward committed suicide, to be followed eventually by both sons (death by leap) whose grandmother had tried to create a “normal” life for them.
By the 1960s and the rise of the Kennedys to national prominence and power,
the term “socialite” became something of a relic. Heirs and heiresses, members of fine old families, tycoons, and scoundrels all drank and danced (the “Twist” and the “Frug”) and occasionally drugged under the same rooftops on the High Road or the Low. The President, while in office for what turned out to be a short time, was rumored to have had an affair with the sex symbol of her age, Marilyn Monroe while fathering children with his legal wife, the beautiful New York socialite Jacqueline Bouvier. And although it was passed over even by the well informed members of the press, it was well known amongst his “social” peers. We had entered the Age of Excessive Behavior where mores fell by the wayside and manners were about to make a swift exit. ◆
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NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S SUMMER DINNER
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Franci Neely and Coco Kopleman
Douglas and Anne Marie Bratton
Lucinda Ballard
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Maria and George Roach
Abigail Johnson and Christopher McKown
Stacey Stuart and Marla Mullen
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SABYASACHI’S
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Prabal Gurung
Dalia Oberlander and Tracy Yorks Demarchelier
Anna Wintour, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, and Georgina Chapman
Cassandra Grey and Elizabeth Sulcer
Alexandra O’Neill, Ayesha Shand, Violetta Ambrosi, Alessia Fendi, and Jimena de Cruylles
Nell Rebowe and Stephen Bogunia
Elizabeth Saltzman
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Barbara Ann Bernard and Jim Coleman
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IT SEEMS LIKE
YESTERDAY
GIORGIO ARMANI caused quite a stir among the trendsetting fashion crowd when he opened two stores at once in New York City: the extravagantly elegant Armani boutique on Madison at 65th and the younger, trendy Emporio Armani on Madison at 57th, both in September 1996.
I was given an assignment to photograph Armani at his new boutique at the same time that actress Ashley Judd was in New York to promote her new film, A Time to Kill, in which she plays the wife of heartthrob of the moment Matthew McConaughey.
Ashley joined Armani at the store—two stars for one. Trying to think of what to do to make the photograph fun and interesting, I jokingly suggested a pose of Armani with a topless Ashley in the Madison Avenue store window, never for a minute thinking they would agree. Next thing I knew, they were in the window, ready to be photographed. A crowd started to gather, and it grew and grew as more and more passersby stopped to watch.
That evening, Gigi and I had dinner with my friend and colleague, LIFE magazine managing editor Jim Gaines, and his photo-archivist wife, Karen. She mentioned that traffic had stopped on Madison Avenue that afternoon while drivers craned their necks to see something in one of the stores, but she couldn’t see what was happening. Laughing, I figured out what I hadn’t realized while totally absorbed in taking the photograph: the cars on Madison Avenue had slowed down to see what was happening in the store window until traffic was completely disrupted.
Happily, the photos were a hit with readers… and now I never hesitate to suggest something outrageous—who knows, the subject just might say yes. u
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Giorgio Armani with Ashley Judge at his Armani boutique on Madison Avenue in New York City, 1966. Photographed by Harry Benson.
FIRE WITH FIRE
HERE WE ARE, back in the good old US of A, and nothing has changed, or so it seems at first. The war against Christianity continues; the destruction of the family is encouraged by subversives such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the main networks; and the ripping-apart of national identity is
ongoing, as is the violence and the tyrannical wokeism in our universities. The reasons for these disasters are obvious: More than 90 percent of the media—legacy, network, social, and state—is left-wing. Ninety percent of the professoriate is left-wing and activist, which explains why American campus-
es believe they are above the rules and laws. The horrible irony is that everything the vast majority of Americans and their elected representatives do not want becomes the new culture of America. And then there’s Trump. His answer to the above is messy and a drag-out ding-dong collision with the media, the
From left: Charlie Kirk at a Utah Valley University on September 10th, the day of his assassination; Charlie Kirk (left) and George Abaraonye during a debate at the Oxford Union in May.
latter going nuts because he’s doing what the majority of Americans want done. The absurdity, of course, being that by dragging the country back to the middle where it once was and where the Founders believed it should remain, the usual suspects are outraged. There are those who believe that what the majority of Americans wish to happen will happen, but I’m not so sure. I’m a pessimist by nature who believes the bad guys always win because they cheat. There are, of course, good signs. And then there are leftist-inspired murders of the good guys like Charlie Kirk, a saint in my and many others’ book.
What comes to mind following the
Why aren’t we out there burning down the offices of MSNBC, beating up the owners of those subverting grub sheets? One thing is certain: If they were held responsible by a mob, their subversive sheets would certainly change their tune, and that’s a guarantee from Taki.
Charlie’s foul murder is the latest manifestation of the hateful rhetoric aimed at The Donald and his MAGA movement. And it will continue unless something’s done about it. The left openly claims that assassination culture is on, with 48 percent of liberals saying that it is somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk. Fifty-five percent say the same about Trump.
Cackling Kamala encouraged the riots
TV show on Mussolini, there’s an added remark that the Italian dictator began his career much resembling that of Trump’s. Although the violence in this country mostly comes from the left, the media does not acknowledge it. Needless to say, the media is unwilling to take an ounce of responsibility for it.
And it gets worse: Everything one reads or hears about Trump and any conservative is accompanied by references to Hitler. Ironically, Stalin is never mentioned, but always the Führer. So people begin to believe it. It’s like an
horror of Charlie Kirk’s murder is the aftermath of the death of a career criminal who died from an overdose while legally pinned down by a policeman. George Floyd’s drug death had the Times, the networks, The New Yorker, and the usual suspects up in arms, cheering on the bloodthirsty mobs to burn the place down, which they did. Cops and innocents lost their lives and livelihoods during the riots, egged on by the left and celebrated by the media. I write this on the day after the foul murder of Charlie Kirk and am ready to bet my bottom dollar that nothing like that will take place. Why? That, for me, is the big question:
back in 2020; I wonder if she’d still be cackling should someone burn her place down this weekend. Charlie Kirk believed in civilized debate, but the left does not. Any speech they don’t agree with is “hate speech.” And people who use “hate speech” have to be cut down. According to the left, people who exercise their right to free speech are “literally killing people.”
This is what the lefty media and academy preach and teach nowadays. While the right tends to believe that the left is simply wrong, the left also thinks the right is wrong but is also evil. In a recent theater listing in the Times reviewing a
ad on TV that constantly repeats itself. After a while you automatically reach for that brand in a store. The president of the Oxford Union, a debating society replete with idiots, had this to say after the murder: “Kirk got shot. Let’s fucking go party.” His name is George Abaraonye. If someone shot that son of a bitch they’d get fifty years. It’s almost worth it. u
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Clockwise from left: The George Floyd protests dominated the newspaper front pages in the United States; David Remnick; cover of the New Yorker featuring George Floyd, June 22, 2020.
EBENEEZER STEVENS: FORGOTTEN FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY
ON A RECENT WEEKEND in the Hudson Highlands we toured the organic Obercreek Farm and Brewery, the late Chauncey Stillman’s majestic Wethersfield House in Amenia, wetly walked in Millbrook’s lovely Innisfree Gardens (“I will arise and go now to the lake isle of Innisfree,” W.B. Yeats wrote of the enchanted uninhabited isle off Sligo on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, and the American version with its Chinese influences is well worth a detour, even on
a stormy day) before dining in the historic Stissing House in Pine Plains.
Our host was my childhood friend Alex Reese who today presides over his family’s home of seven generations, Obercreek, the southernmost of the Livingston family manors built along the Hudson River, just south of Wappingers Falls. The highlight of my trip was delving into Alex’s family papers, which are now archived at the handsome library of Marist College, a few
miles north in Poughkeepsie, where I learned about his maternal ancestor, Ebeneezer Stevens, a now too little remembered Founder of our country.
In the Old Testament, after the Israelis decisively defeated the Philistines at Mizpah, Samuel set up a stone and named it Ebeneezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us” (1 Samuel:12-14).
Our Ebeneezer Stevens was born in Boston in 1751 and took part in the Boston Tea Party. He then moved to Rhode Island to set up as a house builder, but when news of the Battle of Lexington reached him, he abandoned that pursuit in order to organize the
Clockwise from above: Beekman, Schemerhorn, and Stevens ancestors at Obercreek; Alex Reese at Obercreek; Alison Spear Reese in the kitchen at Obercreek. Opposite page, from above: The garden at Obercreek; Ebenezer Stevens.
artillery companies for the Continental Army. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in 1775 and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill under Major General Nathaniel Greene. Promoted to Major, Ebeneezer Stevens was then chosen by George Washington to raise battalions and gather reinforcements for Quebec. At Ticonderoga, Stillwater, and Saratoga, it was Stevens who directed the artillery operations that led to the surrender of General Burgoyne on October 12, 1777, the Battle of Saratoga becoming known forever after as “the turning point of the Revolutionary War.” Stevens was in fact present at Burgoyne’s surrender, portraits of which hang in the Knickerbocker Club Bar and also in the National Gallery in Washington.
Major Stevens later served with distinction under the Marquis de Lafayette in Virginia and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1778. After he skillfully broke the English blockade at Annapolis, Stevens’ final command was the Siege of Yorktown, where Lord Cornwallis surrendered, ending the Revolutionary War.
When the Army of the Revolution was disbanded, Stevens moved to New York City, where he and Peter
Schemerhorn bought a “water lot” from William Beekman at 220-6 Front Street, which, once filled in, became his base for wine and other merchandising. His archives contain correspondence with Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and other Founders, and his business prospered into a transcontinental enterprise.
Ebeneezer Stevens lived in Warren Street in town and erected a country estate called The Mount for its capacious views to the East River and beyond in Astoria, Queens. This inspired his great granddaughter and Gilded Age chronicler, Edith Wharton, to give the same name to her Berkshires seat.
With the onset of peace, Stevens declined further military advancement, but his technical services were still in demand. 1812 as war again loomed, he was put at the head of the New York brigade of artillery. One of the forts at this period built for the defense of New York City was called Fort Stevens in his honor, and after the laying of the foundations stone he gave a celebratory dinner at his country seat. Ebeneezer Stevens was a founding member of the Tammany Society, the New England Society, and the Society of the Cincinnati. He died on September 22, 1823, at Rockaway Beach as that area was beginning its long reign as an early seaside resort.
In A Backward Glance (1934), Edith Wharton writes of her
great grandfather, “If I have dwelt too long on the career of this model citizen, it is because of a secret partiality for him—for his stern, high-nosed good looks, his gallantry in War, his love of luxury, his tireless commercial activities. I like above all the abounding energy, the swift adaptability, and the joie de vivre which hurried him from one adventure to another with war, commerce, and domesticity (he had two wives and 14 children) all carried on to the same heroic tune.”
From above: The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts, built by Edith Wharton in 1902; Edith Wharton. Opposite page, from above: Michelle Coppedge, John Egan, and Jennifer Davis in the Portrait Hall at Obercreek; Stissing House in Pine Plains.
SIGNATURE STYLE
BY JAYNE CHASE
IF YOU’RE AN INTERIOR DESIGN devotee like me, chances are you keep a collection of iconic images from favorite designers close at hand for reference and daily inspiration. Personally, I have a running list of four designers on my Pinterest board and on my desktop whose work I revisit often, imagining how I can weave their influence into my own home. At the top of the list is Tom Scheerer, whose legendary redesign of the Lyford Cay Club remains a constant source of
inspiration. So, when I had an opportunity to meet with him and discuss his new book, Tom Scheerer: Still Decorating, by Vendome Press, I jumped at the chance. Available this fall, the book gathers a decade’s worth of projects since his last book.
“The trilogy,” as he refers to his collection, “is my last book, and I wanted to see all these unpublished projects, which are a nice balance of my work.” Organized not chronologically but thematically—“Up North,” “Out West,” “Down South”— the book features the designer’s sophisticated range, which he
Clockwise from top left: In the home office, the ceiling is actual wood that was picked to approximate the library’s wallpaper, and the painted floor is an admirable rendition of a famous Bunny Mellon one; Moor Baker Architects sourced the extraordinarily thick and heavy marble “pastry slab” topping the kitchen island— its edges were softened for a sensuous touch; the millwork in the library was faux-painted as pickled wood to approximate the Nobilis Grand Chene wallpaper and Pat Steir’s Dragon Waterfall happens to color-coordinate, but only by luck. Opposite page, from above: The wisley north-facing sunroom does not require window shades or curtains—even in the Texas heat. The table is used for family breakfasts, lunches, and the occasional dinner at home; the cover of Vendome Press’s Tom Scheerer: Still Decorating
says “comes close to wrapping things up nicely.”
The projects in the book “represent reasonable people, their reasonable expectations, and those who understand how life is to be lived,” the designer begins. “These houses are not too big, except for one, but those clients entertain a lot, are really good at it, and needed the space. Most people ask for more bells and whistles than I think are appropriate. The great designers like Fatio, Volk, and Mizner set the tone here, and although some of the houses they built were large, they were not as huge as
proportions and atmosphere they were creating, and it’s really hard to get the same result as they did because modern life is so different. People think they need his-and-hers bathrooms, offices, and underground theaters,” he laughs. “It’s hard to get that right and achieve all the beauty, elegance, and flow they did. You have to have a lot of internal fortitude to accomplish that.”
Scheerer, who has been practicing architecture and decorating since his early 20s, has become known for his monochromatic schemes that actually feel colorful. He smiles when I say his work is distinct and recognizable. “Playfulness in decorating is intuitive,” he explains. “For me, it’s from
my upbringing—my parents’ and grandparents’ attitude on decorating and living. Don’t make it all serious,” he says with a smile. “Decorating should be fun.”
Throughout the book, Scheerer’s joyfulness rings loud and clear. Pale blues and corals are usually present, even though he says he stays away from strong colors. “People always say I use a lot of color, but if you really look, it’s just pops of color. I try to respect the architecture of the house, take into account the weather of the place and the milieu, and you’re three-quarters of the way there. I did a house in Wellington, and it doesn’t have all the horsey stuff,” he explains, referring to the project in the book. “Everything refers to it anyway—in the woods, the complex of buildings resembles a stable yard—but the clues are subtle and always there in my decorating. Exoticism fits well in Palm Beach,” he continues, “hence the Venetian and Moorish houses, and for me there is always a familiar element here. A Turkish lantern hanging in a hallway refers to the hot climate of Turkey, for instance, or a stripped chair, bleached from the sun, ties back to an introduction to the beach. There is always one aspect of the design element in the story; from thing to thing, from thread to thread, I link it piece by piece.” ◆
From above: Guy Yanai’s diptych painting of potted frangipani references both the tropics and the slightly broken symmetry of the living room’s arrangement; the breakfast table starts a long view through the house, while the breezy, vintage Uchiwa pendant light by Ingo Maurer is made of bamboo and rice paper. Opposite page: A charming and durably camouflaging vintage Samarkand carpet acts as a room-sized doorman for heavy foot traffic.
QUEST Fresh Finds
BY BROOKE KELLY MURRAY & ELIZABETH MEIGHER
season’s shift with our October fashion edit, where cozy layers meet polished style. This collection spotlights autumnal hues and timeless
Oscar de la Renta’s O Flower Cashmere Pullover with Scarf in Grey ($2,690) and Plaid Faille Skirt in Burgundy/ Blue ($2,090). Visit oscardelarenta.com.
Indulge in timeless elegance with this beautiful pair of 18ct yellow gold Valois earrings by Elizabeth Gage, featuring oval faceted golden Brazilian citrines in a classic wire-twistwire surround. $10,350 at elizabeth-gage.com.
12.60 Total Carat Weight Diamond Leaf Motif Bracelet, part of Shreve, Crump & Low’s Antique & Estate Collection. $35,000 at shrevecrumpandlow.com.
Stubbs & Wootton’s Pheasant Noir Velvet Slippers in black velvet. $900 at stubbsandwootton.com.
A firm favorite year after year, Barbour’s Classic Bedale was originally introduced for riding and this relaxed-fit jacket is now a seasonal staple in town and country alike. $415 at barbour.com.
Barton & Gray Mariners Club offers an assortment of membership options. Members enjoy a lifetime of yachting with the ability to adjust their membership and take advantage of the ever-expanding harbors and new yachts being added to the club. Visit bartonandgray.com.
Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Polaris Perpetual Calendar (Ref. Q908263J), featuring an 18k pink gold case with a striking green lacquered dial. This 42mm timepiece is the epitome of sporty sophistication. $54,500 at greenleafcrosby.com.
Smathers & Branson’s Southern Sportsman Belt in Dark khaki. $195 at smathersandbranson.com.
Asprey’s Fox Head Decanter showcases the exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail that the brand is known for. $6,650 at asprey.com.
The Spectre debuted three years ago and for 2026 Rolls-Royce brings you the Primavera Edition, featuring a fresh, custom, handpainted design inspired by a flower in bloom. Order books are open now. Visit bramanrollsroycepalmbeach.com.
at ralphlauren.com.
Ralph Lauren Collection’s Halpin Shearling-Trim Calf-Suede Boot. $1,400
Fresh Finds
Wempe Twist fine jewelry necklace, 18k rose gold. Price upon request at wempe.com.
J.McLaughlin’s Tripp Coat ($428), Collis Shirt ($158), Domino Jeans ($198), and Liv Belt ($128). Visit jmclaughlin.com.
Il Bisonte’s Cowhide Crossbody Bag in Gianduia. $420 at thestore.madmuseum.org.
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Rolex’s Oyster Perpetual 36.
Ralph Lauren Collection’s Vaughn Distressed Lambskin Jumpsuit in Dark Brown ($6,500) and Distressed Calfskin DoubleProng Belt ($500). Visit ralphlauren.com.
Developed by dermatologic surgeon Dr. Antony Nakhla, Eighth Day’s Ultra-Rich Intensive Moisturizer volumizes and hydrates skin at the cellular level. $290 at eighthdayskin.com.
Tucked away on quiet South Summer Street in Edgartown village, The Charlotte Inn in Martha’s Vineyard is exquisitely appointed with fine art, English antiques, luxurious linens, and fresh flowers—a romantic reflection of a bygone era. Visit thecharotteinn.com.
A perfect vacation hat, the Paréo Woven Hat by Lola has diamond-shaped lace motifs over a plain foundation and fringe along the brim for a tropical beach hut feel. $180 at thecolonyedit.com.
Nestled in Via Mizner on Worth Avenue, Renato’s Palm Beach impresses in every way, making it the perfect restaurant for any special occasion. Visit renatospalmbeach.com.
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$495 at laurenfornes.com.
The Montecito dress is sun-washed
quietly stunning
like the last blush of golden hour on the stone walls at San Ysidro Ranch.
WEEKENDERS NORTH
BY BROOKE KELLY MURRAY
Belden House & Mews
860.337.2099 • beldenhouse.com
In the heart of the Litchfield Hills, Belden House & Mews ushers a new chapter of style into one of New England’s most historic towns. From the team behind Troutbeck, this newly opened, design-forward estate reimagines a trio of storied structures—a stately 1888 mansion, a 1959 modernist addition, and the town’s 1891 firehouse—into a cohesive, quietly glamorous retreat. The first full-service High Street hotel in over a century, Belden places guests steps from Litchfield’s boutiques, cafés, and cultural haunts while feeling a world apart. There are 31 rooms and suites, anchored by butler and valet service, a locally sourced dining room and bar, and an airy bathhouse with treatments, a fitness studio, and a seasonal pool. A two-hour drive from New York City, it’s a stylish perch from which to savor the charms of this newly revived New England enclave. From Bedford to the beach, here’s a curated roundup of country escapes in the Hudson Valley and New England—each under a three-hour drive from the city.
Delamar Greenwich Harbor
203.661.9800 • delamar.com
A swift 45-minute escape from New York City and just steps from world-class shopping on Greenwich Avenue, the Delamar combines Old World elegance with coastal charm. The recently renovated guest rooms channel the hotel’s signature European sensibility while layering in sleek, contemporary design—updated baths, refined finishes, and balconies that frame calming harbor views. Guests can wander the hotel’s art collection or retreat to the award-winning spa for a revitalizing treatment. At its heart is L’Escale, where Provençal flavors and harbor views evoke the French Riviera. Daily breakfast credits, a 24-hour fitness center, and bespoke touches—from a private Belvedere Floor concierge to courtesy car service and seasonal yacht charters—round out the experience.
Bedford Post Inn 914.234.7800 • bedfordpostinn.com
Steeped in centuries of lore, the Bedford Post Inn has welcomed travelers since its early days as an 18th-century stagecoach stop on the Old Post Road. Today, under the stewardship of Sunday Hospitality and a proud member of Relais & Châteaux, it remains a destination for those seeking intimate luxury just an hour from New York City. Set on 20 wooded acres in the heart of Westchester County, the inn’s eight rooms blend rustic beams and stone fireplaces with serene, modern comforts. Guests linger over wine by the fire, explore nearby scenic trails, or dine on refined tavern fare in the original 1762 farmhouse. The property’s painstaking restoration by Richard Gere and Russell Hernandez preserved its historic soul while layering in quiet indulgence. A storybook retreat with deep roots, the Bedford Post Inn offers a soulful, slow-paced counterpoint to city life—perfect for a restorative weekend escape.
Mayflower Inn & Spa
866.217.0869 • aubergeresorts.com/mayflower
Tucked into 58 acres of gardens and woodland in Washington, Connecticut, the Mayflower Inn & Spa embodies the romance of New England country life at its most refined. Just two hours from New York City, this Auberge Resorts Collection property has long been one of the Northeast’s most storied hideaways, where pastoral beauty meets indulgent ease. The Retreat at Mayflower brings a holistic, forward-thinking approach to wellness, from immersive seasonal programs and health coaching to advanced skin therapies and restorative bodywork. Guests can wander wildflower meadows, curl up by the bonfire with s’mores, or spend slow afternoons in the Garden Room and convivial Tap Room, where menus spotlight locally rooted, ingredient-driven fare.
Ocean House
401.584.7000 • oceanhouseri.com
Perched above the Atlantic in the coastal village of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, Ocean House is a grand yet welcoming icon of New England. One of just three Relais & Châteaux properties in the region, its 49 rooms, 20 signature suites, and collection of private cottages combine tailored luxury with a sense of ease, while sweeping ocean views frame nearly every corner. Days unfold at your own tempo— perhaps with croquet on the lawn, a sail aboard the hotel’s 74-foot yacht Aphrodite , or a signature treatment at the Ocean & Harvest Spa. Dining is central to the experience, from coastal Italian fare at Dalia by Dantón Valle to sunset cocktails on the Seaside Terrace. u
OCTOBER
On October 8th, the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee will host its annual Fall Luncheon. For more information, visit centralparknyc.org.
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FALL LUNCHEON
The Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee will host its annual Fall Luncheon. Intimate luncheons will take place in four iconic mid-Park locations, followed by a reception for all attendees. Co-Chairs, Lucinda Bhavsar, Mimi Ritzen Crawford, Brenda Earl, Natalie Cass Stange, Junior Co-Chair, Mikayla Catoe. For more information, visit centralparknyc.org.
BCNY FALL DANCE
The Boys’ Club of New York will hold its Fall Dance at The Waldorf Astoria at 7 p.m. For more information, visit bcny.org.
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ASPCA AWARDS
The ASPCA will host the 2025 Humane Awards in New York City at The Plaza Hotel. This event will honor people and pets from across the nation who have made
outstanding contributions to animal welfare. We will celebrate the inspiration that animals
give us by sharing their stories of courage, hope and perseverance. Whether you choose to participate
On October 10th through 11th, Casa de Campo Resort & Villas will hold its 3rd annual Food & Wine Festival in the Dominican Republic. For more information, visit casadecampo.com.do.
as an event attendee, or by making a general donation, your involvement will help the ASPCA continue to provide local and national leadership in three key areas: caring for pet parents and pets, providing positive outcomes for at-risk animals, and serving victims of animal cruelty. For more information, visit aspca.org.
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FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL
Through October 11th, Casa de Campo Resort & Villas will hold its 3rd annual Food & Wine Festival in the Dominican Republic. Enjoy cooking demonstrations by renowned celebrity chefs Hubert Keller, Joe Isidori, Scott Conant and Chef Tita, wine and spirit tastings, special dinners under the stars, and more. Prepare to be wowed by culinary “maestros” as celebrity chefs take the stage, showcasing their skills through tantalizing tastings and captivating demonstrations. For reservations,
call 855.233.8956 or email res1@casadecampo.com.do. For reservations for Dinner Under the Stars, contact the Concierge at 809.523.2165/2166.
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FALL COUNTRY LUNCHEON
Dutchess Land Conservancy will host its annual Fall Country Luncheon, celebrating the 40 Years of protecting & stewarding open land in Dutchess County. The luncheon will take place at Half Moon House in Millbrook, a beautiful, picturesque property that was part of the first property protected by the DLC 40 years ago! Invitations will be mailed in September. For more information, visit dutchessland.org.
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CAR SHOW
Caffeine & Carburetors is a gathering of automotive enthusiasts, meeting four times a year in New Canaan, CT to enjoy rides and share them with likeminded gear heads. Doug Zumbach began hosting these gatherings in 1995. These Sundays start around 8 a.m. to gather and enjoy a cup
of coffee, followed by a leisurely drive through the countryside, drawing town residents and
families (and their dogs!) as well as visitors from neighboring municipalities and states to enjoy
On October 20th, Casita Maria will host its annual Fiesta at The Plaza Hotel at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit casitamaria.org.
the cars and the charm of New Canaan and its restaurants and shops. For more information, visit caffeineandcarburetors.com.
GO WILD! IN GREENWICH
Greenwich Land Trust will hold its Go Wild! event at Greenwich Polo Club. Live music provided by Sasco Dead, Ferris Wheel, Jumping Jams, GAGA Courts, Soccer with Aldwin, Rock Climbing Wall, Pony Rides & Petting Zoo, Hands-on crafts, Jumbo Truck Experience, and more! For more information, visit gltrust.org.
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CASITA MARIA FIESTA
Casita Maria will host its annual Fiesta to celebrate its 91st anniversary. Support and celebration of Casita Maria’s work is integral to the children, youth, and families the organization serves in the South Bronx and East Harlem. For more information or reservations, email fiesta@casitamaria.org.
GOLDEN HEART AWARDS
God’s Love We Deliver will hold its annual Golden Heart Awards at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 6 p.m. The evening will honor Anne Hathaway and Audra McDonald. For more information, visit glwd.org.
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ABT FALL GALA
American Ballet Theatre will host its Fall Gala at David H. Koch Theater. The evening will honor the extraordinary career of Misty Copeland. For more information, visit abt.org.
IMAGINE BENEFIT
Alzheimer’s Association will hold its Imagine Benefit at The Plaza Hotel in New York. Built on the legacy of the Rita Hayworth Gala, the event funds critical Alzheimer’s Association care, support, and research programs. For more information, visit alz.org.
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FALL LUNCHEON
The Fund for Irish American Scholars in the City of New York will host its annual luncheon at The Colony Club at 12 p.m. For more information, visit friendlysonsnyc.com.
On October 19th, Greenwich Land Trust will host its annual Go Wild! Family Field Day at Greenwich Polo Club at 2 p.m. For more information, visit gltrust.org.
COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY ABOUNDS IN THE HUDSON VALLEY
PRODUCED & WRITTEN BY BROOKE KELLY MURRAY & ELIZABETH MEIGHER
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
JULIE SKARRATT
IN THE HUDSON VALLEY, community is not just a senti ment but a living, breathing effort — one carried across gen erations and rooted in a deep respect for history and place. From Millbrook to Bedford, families and neighbors are taking up the charge of preserving the civic landmarks, gardens, and cultural spaces we visited for our October photoshoot. Once quiet, fading, or fragile, these spaces are now being revitalized through philanthropic leadership, creative fundraising, and, most importantly, the willingness of younger residents to pick up the baton from those who came before them.
Photographed in front of the stately Thorne Building in Millbrook, Oakleigh Thorne embodies the intergenerational continuity that underpins Millbrook’s most ambitious philan thropic projects. As chair of the Millbrook Community Partner ship (MCP) since 2016, he has overseen the dual campaign to breathe new life into two of the village’s most iconic properties: the Thorne Memorial Building and the former Bennett College campus.
“It’s a two-pronged effort,” Thorne explains. “The Thorne Building is being renovated as a community center, while Bennett — which was abandoned in 1978 and falling down — has been transformed into a park. Both projects are happening in tandem, under one organization.”
For Thorne, the work carries a deeply personal dimension.
Clockwise from above: Entrance of Bennett Park; Millbrook residents gather in Thorne Building for an update on the projects; a rendering of Thorne Center by Sloan Architects. Opposite page: Oakleigh Thorne in front of Thorne Building.
Clockwise from above: Bennett College, pre demolition; Halcyon Terrace at Bennett Park; Bennett Park; Oakleigh Thorne, Lorna and Larry Graev, Larry Shapiro, and George Whalen III at the ribbon cutting of their bench at Bennett Park.
“My family gave the Thorne Building to the village in the 1890s, and now I’m stuck six generations later trying to turn it around,” he says with a smile. That generational thread is also woven into the programming itself. The planned digital arts lab, makerspace, gaming room, and music studio are designed to engage school-aged children and teenagers with new tech nologies, from AI-driven music to software design. At the other end of the spectrum, the Barbara Tober Culinary Cen ter will offer immersive, global cooking classes — an amenity that appeals to retirees and lifelong learners.
The Thorne Center’s centerpiece will be its theater, now in the design phase with Broadway’s David Korins and the acclaimed firm Charcoalblue. “It’s going to host everything from classical concerts to amplified music, film, and smallscale theater and dance,” Thorne notes. “We want it to have true multigenerational appeal.”
Meanwhile, just down Franklin Avenue, anticipation is building for the grand opening of Bennett Park on October 5th. Once the collapsing remains of Bennett College, the site is now a landscaped, 35-acre public park with walking trails, restored stonework, and an outdoor Greek Theater. The opening celebration will mark the unveiling of the park’s second phase — featuring a tree-lined allée, new paths, and a striking reuse of the old Halcyon Hall foundation.
Behind it all stands the MCP board of directors. In addition to Oakleigh Thorne, George T. Whalen, Ann Gifford, Charles Pierce, Suzie Kovner, Lawrence Shapiro, and David R. Stack together have raised nearly $34 million to bring these ambi tious visions to life. For Millbrook, their work represents more than renovation; it is the renewal of a community’s spirit, car ried forward for generations to come.
From above: Oakleigh Thorne inside Thorne Building, surrounded by renderings of Thorne Center; a glimpse into Thorne Center’s future Community Center; watercolor of Thorne Center’s Tech Room by Mita Bland.
the annual Friends of Wethersfield Garden Luncheon, 2023; Chrissy McCurdy wearing Cara Cara’s Vida Dress and holding Kinderbrook Home’s Rose Garden Basket; Julia Brown wearing a web exclusive bustier from Cara Cara’s Fall 25 collection, and her dog, Basil, along with Chrissy McCurdy as well as Joyann King Michael wearing a STYLEST bodysuit and Cara Cara’s Ross Blazer and Kitty Skirt, with Brown’s dog, Bridget, at her side. Opposite page, from above: The Main House; Jacqueline Stahl Thorne, who serves as Secretary of the Board of Trustees, strolls through the garden with Blake Thorne, 2021; Joyann King Michael.
JULIE SKARRATT; PATRICK MCMULLAN
Clockwise from above: Barbara Tober and Tara Shafer at
WE NEXT VISITED WETHERSFIELD ESTATE & GARDEN, the 1,200-acre property in Amenia founded by Chauncey Devereux Stillman (1907–1989). Stillman, an avid equestrian, first fell in love with Dutchess County on horseback, and in 1937 he purchased two abandoned farms to create Wethersfield. Today, the estate remains a living expression of his vision — a place where classical architecture, formal gardens, conservation, and equestrian sport intersect. Visitors wander through parterre gardens framed by sculpture, enjoy more than 20 miles of public riding and hiking trails, and encounter peacocks strutting across the lawns.
Guided by Stillman’s legacy, Wethersfield is also firmly oriented toward the future. Its mission includes cultivating the next generation of horticulturalists and conservationists, fostering classical and neo-classical artists through residencies and performances, and partnering with organizations such as the Institute for Classical Architecture & Art, BalletCollective, The Knights, and the Dutchess Land Conservancy.
Tara Shafer, Stillman’s eldest grandchild and former executive director, remains involved, and the organization continues to build on the stewardship of its Board of Trustees and dedicated Friends like Barbara Tober and Meghan Klopp while also welcoming a new wave of supporters. We photographed a few of them: Julia Brown, founder of Cara Cara and chair of last year’s luncheon, joined by her dogs Bridget and Basil; and Joyann King Michael and Chrissy McCurdy, co-founders of the swimwear brand STYLEST.
Benjamin “Ben” and Jaclene Ginnel work together at Ginnel Real Estate, a family-founded real estate firm in Northern Westchester, NY. Ben is Ginnel’s Senior Vice President and CIO, specializing in homes and land, and is on the Board of John Jay Homestead, while Jaclene serves as the Ginnel Real Estate’s President, overseeing marketing, operations, and community involvement. They visited John Jay Homstead with their son, George Ginnel. Above: Historic red barns align the grounds at John Jay Homestead.
OUR LAST STOP WAS BEFORD, New York, a charming enclave located in Westchester County, about an hour North of New York City. A quintessentially New England town, Bedford was originally settled by Connecticut Puritans. Composed of three hamlets: Bedford Village, Katonah and Bedford Hills. Bedford enjoys a rich history dating back to 1680. Bedford Village Historic District comprises over 80 buildings, many from the 18th and 19th centuries. The district was added to the National Register of Historical Places in Westchester County in 1973. Among Bedford’s cultural attractions is John Jay Homestead State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark that Founding Father John Jay—the first U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice— once called home. Stretched over 62 bucolic acres with original farm buildings that include an enchanting Draft Horse Barn, John Jay Homestead State Historic Site is home to Bedford House, John Jay’s 1787 farmhouse. During twenty-seven years of service to his state and nation, John Jay looked forward to the day when he would retire with his wife and family to “the house on my farm in Westchester County…” In 1801 he was finally able to move in and quietly enjoy the remainder of his life as a gentleman farmer until his death in 1829. Bedford House is currently closed for historic preservation and restoration work, while its grounds remain
Bedford residents Gavin and Kate McLaughlin sit on a bench in the gardens of Bedford House at John Jay Homestead. Gavin holds Piper, the blue Rhône English Cocker Spaniel puppy, while Cricket the chestnut looks happily to the right. Their sons Watson (next to Gavin) and Pearson (on Kate’s lap) are ready for a walk. Gavin is owner and chef of Gavin McLaughlin Events & Catering Company, a premier events and catering company based in Manhattan, with clients in New York City, New Jersey, Nantucket, Long Island, and Connecticut. Kate worked for top interior design firms across the country before establishing her own practice, Kate Ives Design. Below: Gavin and Kate go for a stroll; the red Carriage Barn at John Jay Homestead.
Views of John Jay Homestead’s historic grounds, and Pearson and Watson McLaughlin (above) and George Ginnel (below).
open for recreation. The completed project is expected to reopen in late 2027 and will feature 23 beautifully restored and furnished period rooms. Friends of John Jay Homestead will host their legacy dinner on Friday, January 23, 2026, at the Union Club in New York City in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the Independence of The United States of America.
Bedford enjoys a strong and long-standing tradition of gardening and conservation. The Bedford Garden Club was founded in 1911—two years before the National Garden Club of America was established (it later joined as a charter member). Bedford’s Garden Conservancy strives to preserve, share and celebrate America’s gardens and diverse gardening traditions, while Bedford’s Hopp Ground Garden Club offers a welcoming educational environment for gardeners and floral designers at every level.
Bedford is also widely known as a “horse town”, with a rolling landscapes dotted in picturesque horse farms and country estates. Bedford’s extensive trail network includes 150 miles of riding trails maintained by Bedford Riding Lanes Association. Endeavor is a non-profit farm located in Bedford Corners, NY, that provides equine-assisted services to help individuals develop physical, cognitive, emotional, and social skills. The organization uses innovative riding and ground programs with horses to support people with disabilities, at-risk youth, veterans, and school groups. Endeavor is accredited and recognized for its high-quality services, operating with a philosophy of inclusion and empowerment for all participants. ◆
New York and Wellington, Florida. He runs and owns Buxton Farms Show Stables and serves on the board of John Jay Homestead. We spent an afternoon with Alex while he took George the horse for a walk around the grounds.
Alex Hamer is a leading show jumper who commutes between Bedford,
MAPS TO TREASURE
BY JONATHAN YOUNG
Anthony Pelly’s bespoke maps have been commissioned by owners of ranches, plantations, and estates throughout America and Europe. Jonathan Young discovers why.
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not the Hereford Mappa Mundi, the spec tacular 5ftx4ft depiction of the physical and religious world drawn on vellum in 1300 AD, but a scrap of paper wrapped in oilskin.
It was created by Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination when he wrote Treasure Island in 1883 and found in the sea-chest of the deceased Billy Bones, an old buccaneer. Drawn by the formidable pirate Captain Flint, the map shows Skeleton Island and gives precise bearings to the treasure’s location.
Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N. of N.N.E.
Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E. Ten feet.
The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag
Together, the two maps show the breadth of cartography. The Mappa Mundi is a work of art that tells stories from the Bible whereas Flint’s is a survey with “with latitude and longitude, soundings, names of hills, bays, and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores.”
Anthony Pelly’s mission is to combine both those elements within the extraordinarily beautiful and accurate maps he makes for landowners throughout the USA and Europe, recording in precise detail ranches, quail hunting plantations, grouse moors, estates, and the odd ducal palace. His business, Rural Maps, is based at his family’s estate, Pre-
shaw, in Hampshire, England. The sixth generation, Pelly could have sat back and tended the 1,300 acres and driven game shoot. “But I didn’t want to be confined by that expectation,” he says, “and a chance encounter gave me another direction.”
Pelly grew up with an old estate map of Preshaw, drawn in 1664 on vellum, hanging in the family house. “But it was familiar, part of the furniture,” says Pelly. “Then I visited Firle Place in East Sussex [the family seat of the Gage family since the 15th century] and it’s stuffed with wonderful pictures by Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and Van Dyke. And yet all the visitors crowded round an old county map. That sowed a seed.
“We then needed a proper working estate map of Preshaw for an expansion of the parkland,” he continues, “and it had to show all the buried utilities, such as power lines and water pipes. I showed it to another landowner and he asked me to make one for him. It’s then I thought, ‘there might be a bit of a market for maps that are both practical and beautiful’ and the business was born.”
Today Rural Maps has a team of five, including Pelly. Jonathan Pointer is the artist, living in a wild part of Wales and inspired by Victorian art, while Catherine Trussler and Rachel
Clockwise from top left: The Hereford Mappa Mundi (‘map of the world’), drawn in vellum in 1300 AD, depicting both the religious and physical world as then known, which is why America is absent; Captain Flint’s map of Skeleton Island; Treasure Island, the definitive pirate story. Opposite page: Anthony Pelly and works from his company, Rural Maps.
and Ben Edmunds work on the research, mapping and design. In the UK, they’ve made maps for over 200 estates and farms while American clients include: the Amistad estate in Florida; Black Bear Ranch, Washington State; Birch Hill Farm, Vermont; Sedgefields Plantation, Alabama; the Flagler Ranch, Texas; the Slash EV Ranch in Colorado; and the Spiegelberg, Wooden Shoe, and Sand Creek ranches in Wyoming.
The latter was bought by Pelly’s parents in the 1990s and Anthony still returns annually. And he’s not a ‘dude’ cowboy. Unusually for an Englishman, he was brought up riding Western style and later attended the Arizona Cowboy College, where he learnt to shoe horses, pen cattle and rope. And he put those skills to use herding the Ranchlands bison herd at the Medano-Zapata Ranch, Colorado.
When it comes to a site visit, “It’s hard to beat a business meeting, when one can ride out on horseback with a client and hear stories of the property which in turn are distilled onto the map,” Pelly adds.
Pelly’s obvious love of the ranching life is signaled by the cowboy hat and chaps that hang in his studio. “I made the chaps myself from bison leather,” he says with due pride, “under the tutelage of the late, great Jim Wear, who made harnesses for the Budweiser Clydesdales. He left me his wonderful hand-made, leather-working tools when he passed.”
They’re in a drawer in his studio - polished, razor-sharp bits of history that tell their story to the future. And it’s safeguarding the past that fuels much of Pelly’s passion for his work.
“I’ve always been struck by how much Americans really
love their land,” he says. “Partly it’s due to the size of the holdings - you must feel you have a little kingdom when you have 80,000-plus acres - but also it’s because many of the families been around since the covered wagons rolled over the Plains.
“I always conduct client meetings and the surveying myself and recently I visited the Slash EV Ranch in Colorado [it’s named after the cattle brand mark, /EV]. I was riding in the pick-up with a 70-year-old cowgirl who had, at 10 a.m., passed me a Bud Light. She showed me where the Native Americans had their fortified outposts and where her parents would leave her, as a baby, under a sage bush. I photographed that sage valley and when Jonathan Pointer does the artwork for the map we’ll represent this memory and include the exact spot where she lay as a baby. We’ll also map in detail the eight original homesteads, slowly being lost to the sands of time, including one deserted by a settler. When his neighbors entered the shack they found a note pinned to the table with a knife, and it read: ‘Two miles to water, Two miles to wood, I’m going back to Missouri, And I’m staying for good.’ Those sort of stories will disappear unless they’re told and a map is the perfect way to preserve them for generations.”
However, a map must be more than a historical record - it must also be an accurate, working tool and Pelly uses the best technology available when surveying. “As well as photos and sketches, we use GPS, drones and satellites. I can task the Airbus Defence & Space satellites to take high-resolution images of any property in the world and the results are impressive.”
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Opposite page: Pepe Fanjul (left) and his shoot manager, Roy Green, with the spectacular 9ft x 5ft map of the Amistad estate, Florida, drawn on the 1:5,000 scale.
Pelly’s maps are commissioned by landowners throughout America and Europe. Whilst they are cartographic masterpieces, telling the estates’ stories past and present, they are also practical tools, meticulously surveyed using modern technology, that help owners manage their acres efficiently.
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the bigger the map, the greater the cost. His prices not only vary with size but with location, with Rocky Mountain ranches costing more than East Coast estates/plantations “because the latter are typically more complex to survey.” A 500-acre Rocky Mountain ranch map might be charged at $25,000 on the 1:5,000 scale, a 50,000-acre $115,000 on the 1:15,000 scale. A 20,000-acre East Coast plantation on the 1:5,000 scale might be $175,000. “I’ve never asked a client this, so don’t know, but given these are working maps, essential tools in the smooth running of the property, I imagine they would be tax deductible.”
One of the largest maps he’s ever created was for the 4,500acre Amistad estate in Florida, owned by Jose ‘Pepe’ Fanjul, which includes a noted driven partridge shoot run by Roy Green, formerly the sporting manager for Buccleuch Estates.
“It was drawn at 1:5,000 scale and measures 9ft x5ft,” says Pelly, “and there are over 16,000 individual trees on the map, each of which had to be placed exactly. I spent a lot of time out there, mapping the estate, hunting with the owner and learning how the quail, partridge and pheasant shoots are run.
“I then asked our illustrator, Jonathan Pointer, to draw the things that were special to the owner, such as the dogs, the house, and his family's vintage Rolls Royce, which doubles as a gun bus. One of the things I like to do is to ‘hide’ a little illustration for the owner to discover later. On one English estate map I’ve smuggled in three truffles into the woodland and on
be found by his grandchildren.”
“Helping choose the images was great fun,” adds Green, “as was helping name the fields and all the drives. On British estates, fields have carried their names for generations but this isn’t usual in America. The great thing with the map is that it's been an organic thing. As the ranch and shoot have developed over the years, so we have been able to update it with new ground and new drives. It’s been framed in such a way as to allow us to leave the older maps still in place, behind the new versions, as a kind of time capsule for future generations.”
“What’s especially gratifying for me,” says Pelly, “is that as well as the big map, Pepe has commissioned different versions of it for his family members and smaller versions for his other houses and yachts, so wherever he goes, he has a bit of his ranch with him.”
Creating such works takes time, especially as Pelly always deals with clients personally, not least because he loves meeting them and seeing their estates. But it does mean production is restricted to six to eight maps annually, with completion usually within a year of the initial commission. There is, inevitably, a waiting list, now well into 2026. But the result, whilst not leading to a piratical hoard, will always be treasured. ◆
For more information, email Anthony Pelly of Rural Maps at anthony@rural-maps.com.
CANINE COMPANIONS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE
FROM THE FIRST issue of Country Life in 1897—when the Princess of Wales posed with her borzoi—to today, dogs have been stitched into the magazine’s very fabric, a constant presence in its pages and in the lives of its readers. Country Life’s Book of Dogs by Agnes Stamp, published by Rizzoli, gathers that long affection into an illustrated tour of Britain’s canine heritage, guided by breed histories, anecdotes, and photographs that range from field to fireside. It follows the Royal Kennel
Club’s groupings—hounds, terriers, gundogs, pastoral (herding) dogs, utility, and toys—inviting the reader to wander from otterhounds and pointers to corgis and pugs with the same delight one might feel crossing a country lawn.
In his foreword, Royal Kennel Club chairman Tony
This spread, clockwise from left: Henry and the late John Berkeley with pack; the cover of Rizzoli’s Country Life Book of Dogs; Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Prince Philip Duke Of Edinburgh near the King George IV gateway at Windsor Castle, June 1959.
Allcock underscores the book’s timely purpose: to celebrate beloved companions while shining a light on Britain’s “vulnerable native breeds,” the worthy but overlooked dogs that once worked our fields and guarded our thresholds. Few pages make the case as poignantly as those devoted to the otterhound—webfooted, weatherproof, and now among the rarest of all native breeds.
This is also a portrait of country life itself. We glimpse stately houses and sweeping parks animated by canine company—from Balmoral, where Queen Elizabeth II was photographed with her corgis, to ducal seats, where Labradors doze beneath ancestral portraits. Country Life has chronicled these scenes through wars, fashions, and fads, championing responsible breeding, rescue, and welfare along the way. u
This spread, clockwise from left: Duke of Rutland and dogs; three Labrador puppies in front of an Aga; Pembroke corgis in a Morris Minor.
THE COUNTRY HOUSE PARTY
BY JONATHAN YOUNG
is an essential part of the English landscape. Typically Georgian, often with a smidge of Tudor, these stately piles and their maze of bedrooms were built for partying hard. And when it came to that, no one beat Pearl.
We were friends in the Seventies, when I was in my teens and she of graceful and dignified years. But back in the Twenties, she’d been a ‘flapper’ and a beauty, as testified by her life-size portrait painted at the time, which hung in her drawing-room. It captures Pearl in her prime, wearing only a charming smile and, naturally, a string of large pearls.
She giggled when she caught me looking at it too long and explained “It was all part of the fun at the time,” when her long weekends were spent visiting country houses filled with an eclectic mix of the arty and tweedy.
“The family chauffeur would collect me and my sister at around noon on Thursday, drive us to the country and then take us home on Monday morning,” she said. “We shared a maid, as we were young, but we really did need someone to look after our wardrobe and dress us.”
Today, that sounds extravagant but back in the Twenties it was still the form that ladies could not wear the same outfit twice, meaning at least three changes per day: tweeds and furs for the day’s sport, a tea-gown on return followed by a long gown for dinner.
The day clothes were warm because most large country house parties were held in the winter and based around shooting or hunting. Summer was spent ‘doing the Season’ Wimbledon, Henley Regatta, Royal Ascot from London houses.
Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England. Opposite page: Then-Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) and Prince Harry during a shoot in 1995.
It’s very much the same today. Far from being confined to Agatha Christie or Downton Abbey period pieces, the country house weekend still thrives, especially in the shooting season. And many of the etiquette rules still apply.
Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the real Downton Abbey, is the family seat of the Earls of Carnarvon and holds shooting weekends from October onwards, the domestic arrangements overseen by the Countess.
“On Friday evenings the girls wear cocktail dresses and the boys smoking jackets without a tie, then on Saturday night it’s long dresses for the ladies and black-tie for the men,” she says.
That’s pretty much the form, too, at Constable Burton Hall in North Yorkshire, overlooking acres owned by the Wyvill family since the mid-16th century. “However, evening wear can be as informal or formal as guests desire,” says D’Arcy Wyvill, “though of course the girls often lead the way in fabulous cocktail dresses.”
Down in Cornwall, at Caerhays Castle, the owner’s daughter, Serena Cross, says “We don’t go as far as black tie in the evening but I do still wear a dress for dinner. My husband likes a com fortable old smoking jacket, but with an open-necked shirt at home. I believe that you can be stylish without being too stiff.” Her dress code is pret ty much standard for most smart country house parties. Unless it specifies black tie, on the Friday evenings it’s pretty casual and on Saturdays out come the cocktail dresses for girls and what’s been termed “Hampshire black-tie” for boys: no tie, smoking jacket, ivory shirt, dark trousers, and velvet slippers.
In the day time, it’s less forgiving. At shooting week ends, all the men will be in traditional tweed plus-fours and tie and the women in sombre tweeds and loden and, increasingly, these will be cut for per formance as lady shots are now the norm in the gun line.
When the guests return from the field, there’s usually a cup of tea and cake, after which guests are expected to vanish into
From above: Caerhays Castle in Cornwall, England; a shooting party hosted by Almina and George Carnarvon at Highclere (seated in the foreground). Opposite page, from above: Walking to the next drive, hounds at heel, on the Twelfth at a grouse moor in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, 2021; Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at a gun dog field trial at Balmoral Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, October 1967.
FURTHER INFORMATION
The Countess of Carnarvon’s book, The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun, published by HarperCollins, tells the story of the 5th Earl’s discovery of the tomb and explores the curse of the pharaohs. For more information on Highclere Castle, visit highclerecastle. co.uk and to book shooting there click on iancoley.co.uk.
To stay at Constable Burton Hall, contact D’Arcy Wyvill at darcy@wyvill.co.uk, or visit constableburton.com.
To join a shooting weekend at Caerhays Castle, visit visit.caerhays.co.uk or email Serena Cross at serena@phoenixsporting.co.uk.
Excellent tailor-made smoking jackets are built by Jeremy Shaw at Carters Countrywear. Email ccw7@btconnect.com or visit carterscountrywear.co.uk.
Comfortable, bespoke men’s velvet slippers are available from Bowhill & Elliott. Email shop@bowhillandelliott.co.uk or visit bowhillandelliott.co.uk.
their rooms and not appear until 7:30 p.m. for drinks giving hosts a break and staff a clear run to prepare dinner.
Eating is the other central activity at country house weekends and it starts with breakfast. Serena Cross, being in woodcock country, likes “a woodcock on toast (with a small glass of Burgundy) for breakfast. Lunch is kick-started with a Bloody Mary, followed by oysters, and supper’s usually a rare rib of local beef and a fabulous cheese board. Of course, cold Champagne throughout is always welcome.”
love in a dark corner. Given the castle’s size, they might not be found for a while.”
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sardines is seldom played at country houses today as it’s considered far too fruity and everyone likes to be asked back.
One of the best ways to ensure this is to make sure you tip the staff properly. Another is to take your host or hostess a decent present. Magnums of Champagne and rare ports are appreciated but so is anything homemade, even if it’s sloe gin or marmalade. More unusual was that given to Serena Cross: “a recently-shot muntjac deer left on our car roof overnight - the dogs went wild!”
First prize for gifts, however, must go to D’Arcy Wyvill, who recounts that when he was young a family friend’s visit was preceded by a Harrods van, out of which was unloaded a mini Volkswagen Beetle Cabriolet, totally drivable with a petrol engine and perfect in miniature to the real thing. “It really was the thing of dreams for myself and my brother!”
At Highclere, Fiona Carnarvon plans the menus with the head chef, Paul Brooke-Taylor, and says, “We still have a favorite Highclere chicken curry for a shoot lunch with all the family. One of the lesser ingredients is the curry powder, and one of the most important is the cream.” That’s followed by “old favorites such as treacle or ginger pudding, spotted dick, and apple charlotte, which are always a hit with friends or clients on let shooting days.” In the Edwardian past, Highclere dinners required some stamina. “Today we have just three courses and only one dish per course,” explains Brooke-Taylor. “If we can, we use our own venison, or local butchers and local vegetable suppliers. Without doubt I plan a dinner quite differently today, with more vegetables, and often suggest chicken or fish and fewer large servings of red meat.”
After dinner, bridge or party games were commonplace but nowadays it’s usually snooker in the billiards room or Freda, where players race frantically around the table propelling the white ball at the red one. Charades are rare, except at Christmas, though still favored by the current Earl of Carnarvon, according to the Countess, who also notes that his grandfather Porchey, the 6th Earl, was fond of Sardines, where one person hides and as others find them they hide with them. “With his amorous nature, he probably hoped to spend time with a new
What all hosts remember and value most, however, are guests that really make an effort to add to the jollity. “To be honest, I’m not sure we behaved especially well,” recalls Pearl from her headstrong days in the Twenties. “There was the occasional broken chair and a lot of 2 a.m. corridor creeping. But because we all had so much boisterous fun there always seemed to be another invitation to yet another country house weekend.” ◆
The future King Edward VII (center) and the 5th Earl of Carnarvon at a Highclere Castle shooting party in 1895. Opposite page, clockwise from above: Mark Ewart holding a bird he shot at Byrecleugh Farm at Roxburghe Estates near Duns in the Scottish Borders, 2021; a labrador retrieves a grouse; stylish ladies on the grouse moors in Ayrshire, 1936; shooters with English pointers an ancient breed expert in locating grouse and other gamebirds in Byrecleugh Farm, Longformacus, Duns; household servants in the Edwardian era.
A STYLISH LIFE IS A LIFE WELL-LIVED
BY ELIZABETH MEIGHER
“Over the years, those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives.”
—Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth will be remembered foremost for her dedication to service, crown and country. Much of her remarkable strength was drawn from simple pleasures at home, which were well known to include family and, from a young age, four-legged friends. Above she is pictured at Balmoral in 1971 with her labrador retrievers. Like Her Majesty, the following pages are proof that a life well-lived is a life in style.
Clockwise from top left: Charlotte Rampling smiling in the late 1960s; Britt Ekland and Peter Sellers in Rome, 1965; Grace Kelly flashes a smile in 1965; Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg in France on the set of the film Cannabis , 1969; Bill Cunningham with models Nadege du Bospertus (L) and Susan Holmes, Vogue , 1992; Dodgers players Pee Wee Reese and Pete Reiser enjoying a night out with Cuban women during baseball spring training in Havana, 1942.
Clockwise from top left: The Queen Mother meets Diana Ross and The Supremes after watching them perform at the Royal Variety Performance in 1968; Lou Lou de la Falaise, Yves Saint Laurent, and Betty Catroux, 1969; Students walking on campus in the 1970s from Rizzoli’s Seven Sisters; Princess Diana among the crowd at the races at Sandown Park in 1981; Norman Parkinson photographing Nena von Schlebrügge with his 10 x 8 camera in New York for the cover of Queen, 1960; Two young models (including Grace Coddington on the right) embrace the mod look while shopping in London in the ’60s. Opposite page, counterclockwise from top left: Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Prince William and Prince Harry pictured on the grounds of Highgrove House; Yves Saint Laurent Couture Fall 1975; Milla Jovovich by Peter Lindberg, 1996; Catherine, Princess of Wales, visits Blackpool Tower dressed in a green SportMax coat and a Manu Atelier box bag while greeting members of the public on the Comedy Carpet; President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jackie Kennedy watch the Americas Cup race aboard USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. off Newport, RI, 1962.
Quest STYLE
Clockwise from top left: Lunch Time on a yacht along the Côte d’Azur, 1955; Princess Anne sporting Matrix-style sunglasses at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2018; Models donning dresses and triangular capes by Pierre Cardin in Paris, 1962; Onlookers watch Queen Elizabeth driving herself with her children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, in Windsor, 1957; Naomi Campbell walking in Chanel’s Fall 1994 Ready-to-Wear Collection; Anna Murdoch Mann and Rupert Murdoch (his second marriage of four, her first of three), London, 1969; Steve McQueen seated outside of Hollywood Studios in his 1957 Jaguar XKSS, painted in British racing green (McQueen called it the Green Rat). Opposite page, clockwise from above: George Plimpton, Jared Paul Stern, and Cameron Richardson at Elaine’s, 1999; Slim Keith, Oscar de la Renta, and Françoise de la Renta at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala, 1977; Countess Jan Bonde in the Palace Hotel sleigh on Lake St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1983; Edie Sedgwick, 1967; Brigitte Bardot with her dogs, driving a Mini Moke in France, 1980; Thirteen year-old Princess Yvonne Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn takes a swig from a bottle while her brother Alexander, just twelve, puffs on half-smoked cigarette. Taken by their mother aboard the yacht Bartholomé off Majorca, 1955.
CREEL AND GOW
3424 Franklin Avenue creelandgow.com
Creel and Gow offers an extensive range of exquisite and rare objects sourced from all around the world by a team of avid collectors and world travelers. At Creel and Gow, customers can discover an impressive selection of rare minerals, taxidermy, coral, silver shells, unusual decorative objects, and exotic accessories that fill the store’s veritable cabinets of curiosities. What sets Creel and Gow apart from other businesses is its commitment to offering original and one-of-a-kind items that cannot be found anywhere else. The team is passionate about traveling the world in search of unique and beautiful objects.
MILLBROOK ANTIQUES CENTER
3283 Franklin Avenue millbrookantiquescenter.com
Spread across two floors and home to over 30 dealers, Millbrook Antiques Center offers a curated mix of antique furniture, artwork, vintage jewelry, home décor, kitchenware, and clothing. Whether you’re seeking European or American pieces, rustic country primitives, or one-of-a-kind curios, the inventory refreshes frequently, making each visit an adventure. With welcoming staff, a warm atmosphere, and something to suit many budgets, this antiques center is a must-visit when exploring the Hudson Valley’s charm. It’s the kind of place where you’re bound to discover something you didn’t know you needed.
ORANGERIE GARDEN + HOME
3424 Franklin Avenue orangeriegarden.com
Directly next door to Creel and Gow, Orangerie Garden + Home is a refined boutique where garden and home design intertwine. From lush indoor plants and sculptural planters to beautifully crafted vases, candles, and tableware, everything feels artfully selected. Owner Anthony Bellomo, with roots in landscape architecture, has envisioned this as more than a store—it’s a serene escape that balances practicality and elegance. In its greenhouse-like showrooms, seasonal curios and botanical treasures invite discovery, while bespoke floral design services add living beauty to moments both everyday and special.
THE HORSE CONNECTION
38 Village Green bedfordhorseconnection.com
Founded in 1992 by lifelong rider Natasha Tarasov, The Horse Connection has grown from a mobile tack shop into the beloved equestrian outfitter in the heart of Bedford Village. Housed in a historic building on the Village Green, the shop blends heritage charm with hands-on expertise. Known as the place “where trainers send their clients,” it offers a thoughtful selection of apparel, tack, gear, and gifts, all chosen by experienced riders who tailor recommendations to each horse and rider. For more than three decades, The Horse Connection has earned its reputation for trusted guidance.
BEDFORD VILLAGE PASTRY
426 Old Post Road bedfordvillagepastry.com
Michel Rossignol, owner and Executive Pastry Chef of Bedford Village Pastry, has been serving Westchester County for almost 27 years. After owning and operating a bakery in Scarsdale, New York for six years, Rossignol opened Bedford Village Pastry in 1996, and has been faithfully serving the residents of Bedford Village ever since. Rossignol takes great pride in all that he creates. He and his crew have perfected each and every dish—from danishes, cakes, and cookies to breads and quiches—they produce. The work speaks for itself! Call to inquire about items they offer, place orders, or just stop by & check it out!
CONSIDER THE COOK
26 Village Green considerthecook.com
Consider the Cook was started over 30 years ago by six young mothers who agreed that each would work one day a week and close on Mondays. The shop flourished, and in 2000 it was purchased by Dina Clason, a former china buyer. She relocated the store to Bedford Village. Its wares include dinnerware and serving pieces from England, Italy, and Portugal as well as elegant serving utensils, glassware, linens, and accessories that evoke the virtues of an aesthetically pleasing dining table and the right tools to prepare the meal. There are also home accents like lamps, sconces, mirrors, clocks, tables and at Christmas time a great selection of ornaments.
SHREVE, CRUMP & LOW
125 Greenwich Avenue shrevecrumpandlow.com
Shreve, Crump & Low is a family-owned and operated business founded in New England. The three-story flagship is located at 39 Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts with a second location on Greenwich Avenue. Shreve, Crump & Low features the finest diamonds, colored gemstones, timepieces, and estate jewelry from around the world, as well as one of the country’s finest and most exclusive china and giftware collections. The vast collection of the most famous Swiss & German brands, we carry the rarest and most valuable timepieces in the world.
J.MCLAUGHLIN
55 E Putnam Ave jmclaughlin.com
The first J.McLaughlin store, located in an Ivy League-riddled enclave on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, was a small place with a welcoming, faded-paint feel. Today, with brick-and-mortar retail locations across the country, not to mention a flourishing e-commerce business, J.McLaughlin celebrates its continued success as a classic American clothier and one of the country’s last great first-name-basis retailers. The clothes are simple and smart—the J.McLaughlin website describes them as “innovatively nostalgic,” making them the perfect aesthetic for Greenwich style.
HOPSCOTCH SALON
1800 East Putnam Avenue, Hyatt Regency hopscotchsalon.com
For over 29 years, Hopscotch Salon has helped clients look good, feel good, and do good. Offerings include cuts and styling, color, Specialty Hair Treatments (from Conditioning and Clarifying to Keratin) and makeup. Beyond impeccable grooming, they nurture well-being and quiet confidence while giving back to the community they love. The salon also offers an extensive range of premium hair and skincare products from Oribe, Bumble and Bumble, Kérastase, Decléor, and SkinCeuticals. Their expert team can help you choose the perfect products for your needs—ensuring every visit leaves you polished, radiant, and inspired.
HOAGLAND’S
17 Greenwich Avenue hoaglands.com
Hoagland’s has been the premier destination in Greenwich since 1937 for tabletop, home accessories, luxury gifts, and wedding registries. Generations of customers have selected Hoagland’s because its unparalleled selection is as special and unique as they are. The business has grown to offer Children’s apparel and gifts available in both the Greenwich store, and the Children’s store, Anna Banana, located in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. As it has done for the past 80 years, Hoagland’s continues to curate the finest product offerings and bring the best of the marketplace directly to you.
POLOGEORGIS
25 Lewis St pologeorgis.com
Pologeorgis designs custom fur coats tailored specifically to your wants and measurements. It carries an extensive range of furs to help you determine your preference in colors, length, styles, and linings. Create a new coat based on your preferences with the option to mix and match pieces that you like. For over 60 years, Pologeorgis has been dedicated to quality, care, and customer service. From sourcing to manufacturing and beyond— including cleaning, remodeling, and storage—the brand stands behind its products. Top sellers currently include the Dyed Fur Earmuffs in assorted colors and the Jenna Shearling Coat.
LOVESHACKFANCY
113 Greenwich Avenue loveshackfancy.com
LoveShackFancy is a global fashion, beauty, home and lifestyle brand founded by Rebecca Hessel Cohen in 2013. It was created to celebrate love and revel in the beauty of a flower-filled, rose-colored world. The LoveShackFancy aesthetic marries vintage inspiration with a fun and modern take on femininity: An overflow of pink, prints, florals, ruffles, lace, and bows, LoveShackFancy is for romantics at heart and anyone who wants to feel beautiful and confident. LoveShackFancy has 21 stores worldwide, 450 retail partners, and collaborations with brands like Gap, Stanley, Pottery Barn, Bogner, Supergoop, and American Girl. ◆
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THE YOUNG & THE GUEST LIST
BY BROOKE KELLY MURRAY
Usher
RALPH’S CLUB NEW YORK CELEBRATION
DURING NEW YORK Fashion Week, Ralph Lauren Fragrances celebrated the debut of Usher as global brand ambassador—and the new face of Ralph’s Club New York Eau de Parfum—with a club-inspired party that drew a starry crowd. Usher was joined by Jennifer Goicoechea, Jodie Turner-Smith, Mark Ronson, Grace Gummer, Ryan Destiny, and more for an evening that captured the fragrance’s sleek, after-dark spirit.
Clockwise from top left: Jodie Turner-Smith; Mary Beth Barone and Lukas Gage; Ralph’s Club; Daniel Fryer and Taylor Hill; Alton Mason, Natalie Saidi, Evan Ross, and Ashlee Simpson.
CHANEL’S DINNER IN NEW YORK
DURING New York Fashion Week, Chanel hosted an elegant dinner at Doubles to celebrate the release of Chanel Haute Couture , a new book by Sofia Coppola . Guests included Coppola herself, Lauren Sánchez Bezos , Thomas Mars , Gracie Abrams , Kirsten Dunst , Bill Murray , Jon Hamm , Anna Osceola , Romy Mars , and others.
Lauren Santo Domingo, Chloe Malle, and Derek Blasberg Gracie Abrams
Kirsten Dunst and Sofia Coppola
Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark, Mason Rudnick, and Lizzie Tisch
Lauren Sanchez Bezos
ANNABEL’S FOR THE AMAZON GALA IN LONDON
IN LATE SEPTEMBER, Annabel’s, together with The Caring Family Foundation, hosted the second annual Annabel’s for the Amazon gala. Guests included founders Richard and Patricia Caring , who served as hosts, along with Kate Moss , Mabel , Zara Martin , Ed Speleers , and Marc Quinn . The gala marks the culmination of the club’s monthlong Annabel’s for the Amazon campaign, which raises vital funds for reforestation and restoration in the Amazon rainforest, as well as social initiatives supporting women and children in both the U.K. and Brazil. ◆
Zara Martin and Ed Speleers
Patricia and Richard Caring, Kate Moss, Marc Quinn, and Adot Gak
Mabel and Preye Crooks
Tatiana Kharchilava
Ronan Keating
NEW YORK PLAYLIST
Countless musicians have been inspired by New York. Here, at right, we present a list of our favorite odes to the city. Pictured are, top row, from left: Duke Ellington and his band; songwriter Cole Porter by his piano; Bono from U2. Second row, from left: Frank Sinatra; Ella Fitzgerald performing; Simon and Garfunkel; Bobby Short breaking from his performance to talk to Dina Merrill. Third row, from left: Leonard Bernstein writing lyrics; Billy Joel; Rodgers and Hart.
1. New York, New York. Written by Leonard Bernstein for On the Town.
2. Drop Me Off in Harlem, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
3. 59th Street Bridge Song, Simon and Garfunkle
4. Manhattan. Written by Rodgers and Hart. Performed by Mickey Rooney.
5. Downtown, Petula Clark
6. Angel of Harlem, U2
7. Lullaby of Broadway, from 42nd Street. Performed by Doris Day.
8. Uptown Girl, Billy Joel
9. The Boy from New York City, Manhattan Transfer
10. Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes, Paul Simon
11. Puttin’ on the Ritz. Written by Irving Berlin. Performed by Harry Richman.
12. New York State of Mind, Billy Joel
13. Autumn in New York. Written by Vernon York. Performed by Ella Fitzgerald.
14. New York, Freddie Mercury
15. Arthur’s Theme (The Moon and New York City), Christopher Cross
16. New York, New York, Ryan Adams
17. New York City, John Lennon
18. New York, New York, Frank Sinatra
BONUS TRACK: Sweet ’n Low Down, from My One and Only. Performed by Tommy Tune and Twiggy.
