THE DOWNEAST DILETTANTE

So many deadlines, so little time.  I'm knocking down four articles for publication, opening the shop for the season---delayed by the en...

Finally, for Father's Day, the weather was perfect---the kind of day that we have seen far too seldom this year---blue skies, no haze, n...

This post is a week late---I got distracted by architectural frivolity and Edith Wharton, and forgot I had these pictures. Of course I spen...

One tries to avoid excess in all things.  Heaven forfend the Dilettante should ever gild a lily, post too many pictures, drink too much die...

In 1903, Edith Wharton, who had spent summers at Newport since childhood, sold Land's End, the cottage that she had renovated and decor...