THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

THIS DAY IN HISTORY Fifty years ago today, the estimable Margaret Chase Smith, the Republican Senator from Maine, who helped bring down...

This is Nathaniel Sparhawk, wealthy merchant of Kittery Maine,  son-in-law of Sir William Pepperell, the only American baronet, as pain...

Note: this longer-than-usual post first appeared as an article on New York Social Diary, 01.14.2013 Summer Society has always needed...

No matter how engrossed I am by a film,  I will eventually be distracted by the sets.  Such was the case during a recent viewing of 'Gia...