…Santa Fe, followed by readings in Boston, Newport, Louisville and probably Hawaii. I’m most excited about presenting my biography in the Great Hall at Rough Point, the Duke house on Ocean Avenue in Newport, because I know how she loved to swim in the ocean off that high bluff. Doris…
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Aboard the Arabella: Newport Harbor, August 15
…weeks ago with a terrible crack, a sundering, and a crash. Now the coastguard has ordered that the sails cannot be raised until all the masts are stripped of their paint and minutely inspected for more cracks. We—her twenty-eight passengers on this six-day trip from Newport to Martha’s Vineyard to…
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Do We Collaborate
…the same academic requirements? And if this association was and is essential, how injured have we women artists been by exclusion? In the Académie Julie studio by Marie Bashkirtseff, 1881 – Dnipropetrovsk Museum of Fine Arts, Dnipro, Ukraine (Photo credit: WikiArt) The requirements for entry to the prestigious Paris art…
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The Zombie Law
…This threat might have succeeded in making abortion illegal. In 1935, Margaret Sanger‘s Birth Control League was to be outlawed by the Act for sending “obscene” information on birth control through the mail. In 1953, Sanger’s International Planned Parenthood Association would never have been created if the Act had been…
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Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories
…readable and representative anthology of literary short stories from authors whose lives and works were shaped through association with the Commonwealth.” – Arkansas Review “Readers needn’t be from Kentucky to appreciate these stories… Prepare to be wowed by these superior examples of the form.” – Bloomsbury Review “It is high…
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Doris Duke: Getting Dirty
…mud up to their knees? That was Newport, which is not known, even today, for freedom of expression, especially for girls and women—unless, perhaps, it is on the tennis court. But Doris discovered that there is mud, and sand, and dirt everywhere, even in the most refined of beach resorts….
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A Passion for Houses
…the importance of this work. But then I remember the colonial neighborhood of modest clapboard houses which she saved in the old part of Newport, creating a foundation to both repair and conserve. The old house on Palace Avenue, like the old houses above the harbor in Newport, is part…
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Doris Redux
…characters, unknowable… even after a decade of reading every scrap of information about her and working through draft after draft of The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke. Now I’m about to leave New York City in its grey rain for Newport and Rough Point, the big house on…
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The Silver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke
…of Doris Duke’s life. The Tiffany silver swan shown here was perhaps her favorite possession. It traveled with her on her extensive journeys during the last five years of her life, to Newport, Summerville, Los Angeles and Honolulu, but also to Asia and Europe. It didn’t get shipped to Shangri…
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Before It All Went Away
…pool in Doris Duke’s Newport house was made by a manufacturer in Louisville. The enormous brick industrial complexes, filling whole blocks downtown, have nearly all been demolished. One has been turned into studios for individual glass makers, and it seems to me this is the way we are going and…
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