…all she did in Newport and it wasn’t the most significant contribution to Newport. She got to know the town, and when she did she realized that the oldest part of the town, which is the enclave of wooden houses near the harbor, was not of much interest to anyone,…
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Doris Duke’s Legacy
…so many chairs.’ Well owning chairs was not really the goal of Doris’ life. So perhaps that will eventually change. That’s Newport, that’s Rough Point. But that was not all she did in Newport and it wasn’t the most significant contribution to Newport. She got to know the town, and…
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Innards
…Kong (Cotton, felt). Newport Restoration Foundation. Contradictions and complexities enrich my biography, due to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux next spring. I look forward to reading from it in the ballroom at Rough Point, to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of The Newport Restoration Society,…
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The Silver Swan Sails Again
…art), Rough Point at Newport, The Newport Restoration Association, Duke Farms in New Jersey, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. I knew from the start I would have my work cut out for me. There was already plenty of rumor afoot, leading to the creation of some accounts that focused…
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Doris Farewell
…than throwing more cash into Amazon’s relentless craw. And people, strangers, relatives, friends, continued to hear, somehow, about the book and to buy and read it. Among them were my devoted friends, and Doris’, at the Newport Restoration Foundation here in Newport, where Doris worked to preserve forty of the…
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As I Am Now So Will You Be
…Pacific, largely because they ate their dead companions. Why the African-Americans died first has never been explained. The island is the site of the Maria Mitchell Association, named for the Nantucket-born astronomer who was the first woman to be officially awarded that title. The Maria Mitchell Association here has an…
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Finding What We Lost… Or Nearly.
…to Granada, and long-term restoration of the palace and its gardens. Irving’s touch is so delicate, his humor so charming in these tales, which he collected on site, that no reader could fail to want to see his magic palace. My favorite tale is “Legend of the Prince Ahmed Al…
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Ten Favorites: On To The Next
…dispute in Newport, where DD did much important work, restoring, salvaging, creating the Historic Newport Foundation. Now, a monument designed by Maya Lin “Splits Newport’s Old Guard”, according to the report. The monument, in Queen Anne Square, created when DD cleared some derelict buildings, sometimes directing the bulldozer drivers herself,…
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Doris Duke and the Sea
…York’s Central Park) or rambles on private estates (Duke Farms in Summerville, New Jersey). Doris had her gardens to tend to, particularly at Rough Point in Newport, as well as her elaborate greenhouses at Duke Farms, but this would not have allowed for much freedom of movement. As for swimming,…
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On To The Next
…dispute in Newport, where DD did much important work, restoring, salvaging, creating the Historic Newport Foundation. Now, a monument designed by Maya Lin “Splits Newport’s Old Guard”, according to the report. The monument, in Queen Anne Square, created when DD cleared some derelict buildings, sometimes directing the bulldozer drivers herself,…
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