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4.12.23

BACK WHEN THE DILETTANTE WENT GREEN



It didn't quite come out the same as the Veranda cover...

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New York Social Diary is one of the Dilettante's favorite guilty reads, and now he can be read there too.

Click on the pictures below to read some of Down East Dilettante's latest articles at NYSD. Thanks to David Patrick Columbia for the kind invitation to his Swell Party.

This Week in New York Social Diary: Artists on Ironbound

This Week in New York Social Diary: Artists on Ironbound

Picasso & Pie Down East

Picasso & Pie Down East

Manservants Behaving Badly

Manservants Behaving Badly

Vanderbilts at Bar Harbor

Vanderbilts at Bar Harbor

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