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A look at the august families of Newport,

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A RACE THROUGH TIME

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A history of the Travers Stakes, which serves as

the signature event of the Saratoga Race Course. by Brian Bouyea

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HIGH STAKES

the Triple Crown—as experienced by our columnist. by Audax

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BACK TO NATURE

HAMPTON BY HAMPTON

A town-by-town type-casting (or truth-telling?) of our

favorite stops along Long Island’s fabled eastern edge. by Daniel Cappello

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Taking a look at true Adirondacks style by flipping through

the pages of Cabins & Camps, by Ralph Kylloe.

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The Belmont Stakes—a race that can determine the winner of

THE HAMPTONS HAVE IT ALL

Hamptons views never get old, as the newly

published Big Book of the Hamptons (Assouline) proves. by Daniel Cappello

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From boutiques to salons, all you need

to look—and feel—your best in the Hamptons this summer. by Alex R. Travers

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HOW TO SPEND IT IN THE HAMPTONS

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D P C 48 Caroline and John F. Kennedy, Jr., photographed at the Kennedy Library in 1984.

50 Enjoying a day at the beach—be it private or public.

T T 52 Raising the stakes for Lake George dining at Ed and Jennifer Foy’s Château.

T H 54 For summer, a round-up of all the bees’ knees. D C E M 58 The Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York, offers artistic and outdoor delights.

62 A portfolio of homes in Westchester County that are on the market with Ginnel Real Estate.

64 Cynthia Cannon Cogswell, a lover of horses, lived life to the hilt.

C K L 66 Town & Country Real Estate’s 13,000-square-foot Georgian estate is heaven in East Hampton.

68 The heat is on, and the social season is heating up—from Newport to Saratoga.

120 It’s ars gratia artis as we pedal about the Hamptons.

G S 122 A sip of Veuve Clicquot was only the beginning...

E Q B 128 The Newport Folk Festival has graced Rhode Island since 1954.

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Clockwise from far left: Cascade Mountain in the Adirondacks; Newport doyenne Betty Blake (known to her friends as “Boop”) at her home, Indian Spring; July 2005 Quest featured David Warren Ray, aboard Ahab in Newport Harbor.

THE ADIRONDACKS WERE calling to

many of us over Memorial Day weekend (I never found out how they got my number). One of the thrills: the Adirondacks High Peaks, the 46 mountains originally believed to comprise all of the summits higher than 4,000 feet, are considered some of the best hikes in New York. We set our eyes on Cascade Mountain, one of the less intimidating peaks. At times, the trail becomes vertical enough to evolve from a hike to a rock-climbing challenge. As expected, the summit was breathtaking, and everyone couldn’t help but gaze off and mentally commune with nature and eternity.

But then you have to come back down, both figuratively and literally, which is when you realize the importance of creature comforts. Personally, I was grateful to be staying at the Lake Placid Lodge. In our private cabin on the water’s edge, we were able to recuperate in style, thanks to the brilliant service this Relais & Châteaux hotel offers. The contrast of wilderness and luxury is one of the defining characteristics of this region, making it so appealing for generations of New Yorkers.

In this issue, we also make the rounds in Newport, where Nicholas Mele captures the families who know it best. We’re happy to see some familiar faces, as well—most notably our cover boy from 2005, David Warren Ray. Back then, we shot 12 QUEST

him at ease aboard his launch, Ahab, looking like the captain who’d caught his white whale (sharp eyes will discover that same vessel in this issue!)

We also catch up with the thoroughbred racing in Saratoga and the upset at the Belmont Stakes this year; the yacht clubs of the Eastern seaboard; and the summertime showdown between various Hamptons’ hamlets. Fun in the sun, indeed. u

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ON THE COVER: The Dana Family stands on the dock of their Newport Shipyard in Rhode Island, one of New England’s most authentic yachting hubs.

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NEW YORK SO C IAL DIARY WELL, THAT’S IT for the

spring social season in New York! Harsh winters and frigid springs aside, summer made her entrance serenely here in New York with sunny, warm days and cooler nights. The only thing left over from those aforementioned hard times is the traffic, but it looks like that’s here to stay.

It was a busy season, as usual. There was the plethora of spring galas and fundraisers (predictably scheduled) that are always a challenge for their organizers, as they have to make their events—no matter how annual—interesting to last year’s supporters and this year’s new ones.

This past season on the

scene saw the arrival (or the return, depending on how you look at it) of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, sometimes accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, who is now the head of the family foundation. Both women were honored several times at various lunches or galas (sometimes a lunch and

a gala on the same day). They were all fundraisers, mainly for causes having to do with women’s issues, though not entirely.

Chelsea was honored by Riverkeeper and Hillary was honored (with her daughter) at the Wildlife Conservation Society event at the Central Park Zoo. Multiple honors for one or two individuals over a period

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of several weeks is unusual, even in New York. Technically, Hillary is not “social.”

Rather, she is a politician—a former Secretary of State, a former senator. The Clintons evidently get around in many of the city’s social circles, although I rarely see them. You get the impression they are always working on their projects. Bill Clinton is peripatetic, working for the Clinton Global Initiative. (His daughter has joined him.)

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well. These benefits are now the core of publicized social life in New York.

Hillary is a draw, no matter where she’s going. She is, after all, a world-class celebrity in addition to her distinguished titles. She’s friendly and gracious, and an excellent speaker: knowledgeable and often informative.

Furthermore, there is the ongoing “speculation” that she is going to run for president in 2016. If not, she coulda fooled me!

The Wildlife Conservation Society is a noble philanthropy in a world that is losing track at a breakneck pace of what is important (i.e., survival). This nobility appeals to more peo-

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ple than you might think—it crosses the political lines because it makes sense.

The evening also honored C. Diane Christensen. I didn’t know about Christensen, but she is a very important individual in the world of conservation, as well as to other matters philanthropic. She grew up in San Francisco, where her parents created a foundation to fund causes such as the Wildlife Conservation Society. She has been a lifelong devotee.

I didn’t meet her, but saw her and listened to her acceptance speech. This is a woman with a no-frills, plain-talking, “Out West” manner and presence; a woman of independent

means, obviously, who has given much of her life and her resources to protecting wildlife on the planet. (Or, to put it more realistically, to protect life on the planet.) You could tell from her speaking that she thinks of it as something that has to be done, has to be taken care of—like the way a good mother protects her children.

Christensen is the essence of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s charter.

Hillary was introduced by our new mayor, Bill de Blasio. De Blasio is not currently a favorite with many in that crowd and on that side of town. Personally, I have no opinion except to note that

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A he’s somehow ended up on the bad side of many of the electorate around me.

I had never seen or heard him speak until this night, when he took the podium to tell us about his relationship with Hillary (whom he worked with when she was senator).

He described the experience with an almost effusive awe at her ability to get to the heart of the matter when solving or dealing with a problem. His information wasn’t surprising.

She’s tough, she’s sharp, and she’s got a strong woman’s instinct to solve a problem.

The focus of the evening was elephants, as the theme was “An Elephant’s Tale.”

Cristián Samper, president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, talked about the poach-

ing of elephants. He told about a tour he took in Dzanga Bai in Central Africa, where the poachers have moved in and are killing the elephants for their ivory tusks. The killing of elephants in Africa is now running close to 100 elephants a day. In a few years, they will be extinct—all for someone’s expensive doodad.

When Samper saw what the illegal ivory trade was doing, he called Hillary. The Clinton Global Initiative got involved.

Chelsea Clinton then made a documentary for NBC News and Hillary, as senator, gathered intelligence and security advisers to assess the issue.

The result of these efforts was a campaign: “The Partnership to Save Africa’s Elephants.”

Poaching has become more

sophisticated with poachers using automatic weapons, night-vision goggles, helicopters, and explosives.

At the dinner, I happened to be seated with several prominent men and women, who usually vote on the other side of the political aisle from the Clintons and the de Blasios. At a table across the way, for example, sat David Koch. He, along with everyone else, listened respectfully to the entire program and to Hillary’s speech.

During the speech, my hostess (whose politics I wouldn’t try to characterize because I don’t know) said to me: “There is no society anymore.”

It seemed like an out-of-nowhere observation. It might have been Hillary’s presence

as a public official that evoked that thought. There is no longer a society like the one that some of us witnessed fading away over the course of the last half of the last century.

There remain social groups, of course, who create their own sense of “society,” but even those are characterized almost entirely by money, and the amounts that individuals possess—which can run into the billions. (I had dinner one night with my friend Kathy Steinberg, a very successful high-end residential real estate broker here in New York, and the clutch she was carrying had the words woven onto it: “I Liked New York Better When Everyone Had So Much Money.” That summed up the state of things.)

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D AV I D PAT R I C K C O L U M B I A The tone of my hostess’ passing remark, though, was not in any way objecting to Hillary’s presence or her message, which the attendance agreed with. My hostess was merely noting that what used to be known as “society” (really, just a synonym for a common sociological phenomenon) is now entirely about the money—in elections as well as in raising funds for philanthropic and cultural projects.

It’s serious business. It’s perhaps too serious in many cases, but helpful and necessary nevertheless.

The Wildlife Conservation Society is doing important work on our planet, in our communities, and that import-

ant work needs the backing of as many people as possible to put toward the funds required to achieve results.

Speaking of money. Rupert Loewenstein, the investment advisor to and manager of the Rolling Stones for more than three decades died on May 20. Born Prince Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John Henry zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, he was not well-known in this country although many worldly New Yorkers and their associations as well as informed Hollywood people knew the name if not the man behind it.

He was a glamorous figure.

A Bavarian Prince, a banker, a business associate (in advisory status) to Mick Jagger. His name conjured up thoughts of millions in revenues from investment.

Jagger, himself, was probably attracted to the prince for the same reason we might have been (if we had the money).

Hee was smart, sophisticated, and had a knack for making canny deals and smart investments. In fact, Jagger—aside from his media existence as a rocker and a hedonist in the sex department—is rather like the prince, or at least he shared much in common with him intellectually. Jagger is something of a natural aristocrat in some ways, his

show-business career notwithstanding (which merely provides the ends to the means).

He has a canny businessman’s sensibility.

I never met him, but I first heard of him when I was living in Los Angeles where he was residing in a house nearby. His was a European name that everyone in Hollywood perked up to and both the aristos and moguls in the music and movie businesses paid attention because of his success with the Rolling Stones.

He had a reputation as someone who was likeable as well as shrewd. Not so ordinary in ole Tinseltown! Although he probably never would have described it as such, in the

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He was the managing director of a small private London bank when he and Jagger met in 1968 through a mutual friend, Christopher Gibbs, the British art dealer. At that time, he had never heard of the Rolling Stones. Rock ’n’ Roll was not ever his kind of music. It happened that, at the time, Jagger was very unhappy with his manager (who had been with the Rolling Stones from the beginning). He was taking a 50-percent cut of all the earnings from recording.

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help with the problem.

The two men liked each other right away and, after a couple of business meetings with the rocker, Rupert was interested in joining the team.

The first thing Rupert did was to free the group from their relationship with their first manager and make them clients of Leopold Joseph & Co., Rupert’s private bank.

Assessing the situation, Rupert realized that big money could be made from touring and that, if the Rolling Stones weren’t free of their first manager, he could walk away with a big chunk of that amount.

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Four years passed before he was able to come to an agreement with the first manager of the Rolling Stones and more than a decade passed before the lawsuits were over. In the meantime, Rupert managed their money, negotiated their contracts, allowing the Rolling Stones to record with the company of their choice, and toured with the band. He was, in his own words, “a combina-

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In addition to being godfather to Jagger’s son with Jerry Hall, James Jagger, he was the mastermind in the settlement of Jagger and Hall’s divorce. It is said that, due in large part to Rupert’s wisdom, Jagger’s fortune is estimated at more than $300 million.

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As a boy, Rupert was brought to England and sent to Beaumont, the Roman Catholic public school. He later attended Magdalen College at the University of Oxford. He first went to work in New York with stockbrokers Bache & Co. Soon, he and a group of friends decided that the best way to make serious money would be to own their own merchant bank; they acquired Leopold Joseph &

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He had married at age 24 in 1957 to Josephine Lowry-Corry, a barrister’s daughter who had trained as a ballet dancer at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. On their honeymoon, they visited the Bayreuth Festival. The couple had two sons.

Meanwhile, back in Manhattan. Good news. Charles Masson, formerly the host sensation of Manhattan’s great French haute cuisine restaurant La Grenouille, will be the manager of the French restaurant, lounge, and bars at the Baccarat, the new hotel 26 QUEST

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The restaurant is slated to open in December with Shea Gallante, who was chef at Ciano and at Cru. For years now, La Grenouille, under Charles’ directorship and management, has been the only French restaurant of its kind in New York. Now there will be two.

More good news. On a Wednesday, I was invited to lunch at Michael’s by Leslie Stevens, Lisa McCarthy, and Kathy Rayner. Together, they are working on organizing a 40th anniversary celebration for the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. The event will take place on August 16 at the Animal Rescue Fund adop-

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Steve Kroft (of Sixty Minutes) will be emcee. They’ll honor past Animal Rescue Fund presidents: Sony Schotland, Raymond Cortell, Jill Caras, Doug Cassidy, Billy Rayner, and Polly Bruckman.

(One of my lunch partners, Lisa McCarthy, is the current president.) David Monn and Alex Papachristidis are creating the décor, which should be spectacular. Dogs and cats can be adopted on site.

In their 40 years, the Animal Rescue Fund has rescued and secured adoptions for 20,000 dogs and cats. It is a no-kill shelter that has never turned an animal away, including any adoptees that have been returned.

The Animal Rescue Fund was founded in 1974 as a charitable organization propelled entirely by private donations.

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Each year, it places more than one thousand cats and dogs in caring homes. Tickets for the Bow Wow Meow Ball are $500, $1,000, and $2,500.

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The Park Avenue Armory, originally known as the Seventh Regiment Armory, was completed in 1880, built with private funds for the Seventh New York Militia Regiment in what was known through the 1970s as the Silk Stocking District of Manhattan (now the Upper East Side).

A large number of its original militia members were among the city’s elite. Many of their portraits remain hanging in its corridors and meeting rooms.

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A century later, in 1980, the purpose of the Park Avenue Armory had faded to near obscurity. Even the neighborhood’s elite had changed and the building itself had become something of a white elephant.

However, there lived a man across 67th Street on the corner of Park Avenue. His name was Wade Thompson, a native New Zealander who had come to the United States on a scholarship to attend New York University to earn a MBA, who had subsequently made a large fortune in the business of mergers and acquisitions.

Early in his career, Wade married a young woman from New Zealand whom he met in New York on a blind date, arranged by a mutual friend.

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dates that just clicked. Angela Thompson had been working for the New Zealand Consulate when she met the man who would be her husband.

They married, had two children: a son and a daughter that they brought up in Scarsdale.

When the children grew up and moved out, Wade and Angela moved to 67th and Park.

It wasn’t long before Wade became fascinated by the view from his new home: the Seventh Regiment Armory.

It disturbed him to see the great architectural antique had become derelict after decades of neglect. The roof was beginning to give way in certain parts and neighbors could see men on the roof in daylight, relieving themselves in the open air.

More investigation showed Wade the wounds of neglect inside the building. This

was genuine decay developing in his neighborhood.

But Thompson had an idea for turning the wasted space around. He endeavored to make it a cultural center that could serve the citizens of New York and its visitors. You could call it vision.

Somewhere in there, he shared his thoughts and joined with Elihu Rose and Rebecca Robertson as well as several other civic-minded individuals, such as Adam Flatto, and set the idea into process.

Wade Thompson died in 2009 at age 69 before the restoration was completed.

However, he saw the beginning of his vision actualized.

He knew that the forces had been organized to build a dream, his dream.

I was seated next to Angela at the dinner. She told me that Wade had been a man

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The Park Avenue Armory was the apotheosis of Wade’s vision and his relationship to his community. This is the essence of philanthropy. It’s not a number or a figure as much as a consciousness of values, including the human ones.

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He has an international reputation for being a man in the know when it comes to managing talent and public images.

On this night, Valerie Simpson, who performed, told the guests that Peter Brown had been the first manager of Ashford & Simpson. She credited him entirely for their great success in show business.

Alas, she was only one of the many who valued his advice and friendship. For example, they showed a clip of Yoko Ono, who couldn’t be there, thanking Peter for all that he has done for her and John Lennon over the years.

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The evening’s celebration was maybe the best of that I’ve attended over the years. Liz Smith, who founded the organization with Parker Ladd and Arnold Scaasi, emceed. She introduced the “Guest Readers,” Bette Midler and Gary Shteyngart.

Midler read from her 1980 memoir, A View From A Broad, which has just been reissued. Midler is one of those performers who, no matter what she speaks or performs—or whatever the message—is irresistible.

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His bestselling memoir is Little Failure: A Memoir (because his mother used to call him “Little Failure”). He’s been published in 28 languages.

His wit and personality have shades of Woody Allen, a kind of simpatico (not imitation), but with a Russian-bred sensibility, of course. I haven’t read the book but several friends have been raving about it.

After the readings, two people, Victor Bazemore and Beverly Jenkins, students with Literacy Partners who have achieved the ability to read through the programs, were introduced and

read speeches they’d written about their experience. This gave everyone in the room a chance to realize how crucial it is to the community that everyone—man, woman, and child—know how to read.

Jenkins read to us what she’d written about her personal life that led to the dilemma where she couldn’t read above the second-grade level.

Her life experience in childhood and young adulthood was hair-raising, rife with life-threatening danger and violence. By the time she was 14 years old, she was living on the streets without a home. She told us that she has just recently been accepted to college.

She’s 41. She’s brave and cou-

rageous, resolute and self-respecting enough to know she can depend on those qualities to assist her as she continues to push forward.

This is what Literacy Partners does and has been doing for the past 40 years for more than 37,000 New Yorkers.

They could do more with more funds. A better world is still out there.

After the awards and speeches, Nona Hendryx, the singer-songwriter (“Lady Marmalade”), came out to perform with her singers as part of the tribute to Peter Brown.

Another event of the spring social season was the Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation’s Hedi

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This organization, comparatively small by New York or national standards, is the personal project of a soft-spoken, very plucky and charming (and generous) woman named

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It affects an estimated 500,000 men, women, and children in North America, alone, striking more people than muscular dystrophy, Huntington’s disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease, combined.

The theme of this year’s event, “Stepping Forward Towards a Cure,” focused on recent advancements in dystonia and Parkinson’s disease research and addressed the challenges ahead in finding better treatments and cures.

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Sotheby’s, again hosted a live auction, which featured one-of-a-kind items such as a private dinner for 10 with actress Blythe Danner; a decadent dinner for 12 prepared by celebrity chef David Burke; a golf outing hosted by a club member at the famed Shinnecock Hills Golf Club; and a week’s vacation at the Villa Avalon in St. Bart’s. Jamie’s work helped to raise $160,400—the organization’s most successful auction in six years.

The evening program featured an inspirational speech by 16-year-old Ben Collier of Darien, Connecticut, who is the son of Kristin Collier and Charlie Collier, who is

president of AMC. An avid tennis and piano player, Ben noticed something wrong with his right foot last year. It was turning in at an odd angle and he began experiencing pain and loss of balance.

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IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY IT WAS AN ASSIGNMENT I was eager to begin: the opportunity to photograph the children of every president of the United States, starting with Grover Cleveland’s son, Harry S. Truman’s daughter, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s two sons, and so on up to a barefoot Amy Carter, sitting on the grass in Georgia. My favorite photograph from the LIFE assignment was the one of Caroline and John F. Kennedy, Jr., taken at the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1984.

It was interesting because their mother, Jackie Kennedy—one of the most photographed women in the world­—had told me that her children hadn’t posed for a magazine since they were young and asked me to direct them.

Both Caroline and John, Jr., seemed happy to pose.

They looked at each other as best friends do and I photographed them in several locations, including on the lawn in front of the library (which made the cover of LIFE when the story was complete). I found the opportunity an unusual but unique one, to photograph so many who had lived in the White House as children over the years. u

This spread: Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., in 1984; our photographer with his subjects (inset).

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This page, from left: Taki Theodoracopulos’s former yacht, Bushido; our columnist aboard Bushido while sailing the Mediterranean Sea.

“SUMMERTIME, AND the livin’ is easy,” or so Ella Fitzgerald croons. My father echoed the sentiment as he complained when confronted on his boat by the “vacances payées,” the socialist French system that ensured that working people could invade the South of France for a month while collecting their salaries. Old Dad was a fair employer (he owned textile factories and tankers) but he liked his Riviera beaches empty so he could swim off his boat with various 50 QUEST

friends and picnic undisturbed. Ah, the trials and tribulations of the rich! It was enough to drive Old Dad to drink and put on weight. He died of a heart attack at 80.

Unlike my father, who at times employed as many as 10,000 people (5,000 people in the Sudan alone), I’m always taking the side of the workers when they dispute their bosses—except during summertime. There is nothing like waking up in your house and walk-

ing down to your tiny beach and finding a large group of hairy men and women eyeing you as a capitalist oppressor while filling the sand with garbage and covering it with oil.

Here’s the problem: the European Union, or E.U., has ruled that there are no private beaches anywhere in the Mediterranean. In Greece, all restrictions on the space around the sea have been removed in terms of refreshment stands, hotels, and restaurants. They can

TA K I be built right on the edge of the water.

Worse, landfills are being extended so that even the natural shorelines will soon disappear. Greedy developers will build private nightclubs right on the coast, depriving poor Greeks of their right to get out of the water.

Let’s take it from the top. It’s typically a European conundrum: the E.U. law says one thing, turning a blind eye when private individuals and enterprises do another. Mind you, in the good old U.S. of A, it isn’t much better. Florida boasts of its miles and miles of beaches. And then there’s California, with beaches available to all and sundry. Yet there are those who own houses on Florida and

since the turn of the last century.

As a young man I used to go to the B&T—as insiders call it—and remember how non-members respected the sign that read “private” by turning around.

Some more independent souls just jumped in and swam around the private beach then resumed their walk on the sand. In Southampton, everything and nothing is private as far as the beaches are concerned. It is a gray area that depends on the good manners of both the owner of the house on the beach and the tourist. It works most of the time.

The tourists keeping close to the water without coming right up to the private house and picnicking a yard away.

and swim ashore to the beach of a private villa—which are now mostly owned

by Russian crooks—and you’re taking your life into your hands. The heavies that they employ to keep the hoi polloi off their properties are far more inclined to shoot than to shoo people back into the sea. The Greeks, needless to say, have gone one better. They are building permanent structures for private profit, and to hell with vacationers. The rights of access come in second when it comes private profit.

What is to be done? Vacation in Newport, Cape Cod, or Maine. Or get yourself a boat with a short-line anchor and drop the latter right in front of the

This page, clockwise from left: A populated beach in Greece; the European Union is legislating about public and private beaches.

California beaches who claim them as private and have the fuzz remove the great unwashed who stage occasional sitins. For example, Donald Trump’s Mara-Lago Club in Palm Beach is a private one for very nouveaux riche vulgarians, and its private beach will not allow anyone to cross it or use it. It also abuts the veddy, veddy private beach of the Bath & Tennis Club, a WASP haven for those with impeccable credentials who have been sunning themselves at the club

But this is America, where class warfare has never caught on and private lands are respected. Still, it can play funny tricks.

In Europe, of course, I can anchor my boat off of any hotel or private house, but I am not welcome when I swim ashore. I have tested the system and it works. All establishments turn back the swimmers that come off of yachts, however rich or poor they are. The law of the sea means nothing. Better yet, try

ritziest house on the beach. Play very loud music and smoke a lot. Sooner or later, someone will come and offer you money to leave. Better yet, if you can afford it, buy a big boat and never go anywhere near the crappy people who now own the grandest houses on the Riviera or in Southampton and Palm Beach. Living away from such people is the best revenge. Yippee! u For more Taki, visit takimag.com.

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LAKE GEORGE’S FINE-DINING RISING

BY TONY HALL

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, this boathouse was towed from the shore to become a modestly elegant home, with a broad lawn sloping toward the bay and across the lake: a vista of untouched wilderness.

Mahogany boats still glide to the docks, but not for social calls. The house is now the only farm-to-table restaurant in Bolton Landing, a busy Lake George hamlet that’s home to the Sagamore hotel and hundreds of summer residents who have made this house—recently christened a restaurant—their own.

It opened last year under the name of “The Château on

the Lake,” and is owned and operated by entrepreneurs Ed and Jennifer Foy. “The restaurant is a reflection of Bolton Landing life—the lake life,” said Ed Foy. “The day ends with an evening cruise, cocktails on the porch, and dinner with friends. For those who don’t live the life, here’s an opportunity to experience it.”

Despite the fact that he grew up in Bolton Landing, Foy said he was “hardly aware of this house before we bought it.” That’s not surprising. Its previous owner was the late Hugh Allen Wilson, a concert organist, symphony conductor, and college pro-

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fessor who was of—but not always a part of—Bolton Landing.

Although he liked to boast that he was the only man in his graduating class at Yale who never changed his address, Wilson’s local friendships were limited to people like the sculptor David Smith, his bridge partners, and the occasional vacationing Episcopal bishop.

His home and gardens were a civilized refuge, accessible through a narrow alley slipped between commercial buildings on Main Street. Remarkably, the Foys have managed to preserve

rant has its own signature dishes, such as a steak with a spicy African rub. Jennifer Foy’s mother grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the child of Dutch expatriates. When her family emigrated to the United States, she brought the rub with them. Its ingredients are a closely held secret.

The Foys’ upscale restaurant has raised some eyebrows on Lake George, whose cuisine is known more for burgers and chicken wings than for foie gras. Ed couldn’t care less.

“We have a vision of Lake George—not of what it was, or

the atmosphere that Wilson created in his private retreat.

Ed Foy credits his wife. Historic preservation and interior design are her passions, Jennifer says. “Once we had designed, furnished, and styled the interior, we had to find a cuisine to match the ambiance,” says Ed. That search led them to Michael Urowsky, a prominent regional chef whose training included a stint as executive sous chef at the Clarke Cooke House in Newport, Rhode Island.

Because the menu is based on fresh, locally sourced ingredients, it changes from one night to the next. Still, the restau-

is, but what it will be,” he says. “Every generation that’s been successful here has done something new, something people said couldn’t be done. It’s our responsibility as members of this generation to take Lake George to the next level.” u This page: Food and views; the staff with owners Ed and Jennifer Foy (lower left). Opposite page: Docking for dinner. The Château on the Lake: 15 Allens Alley, Bolton Landing, New York; 518.644.7094. Dinner seven days a week in June. Breakfast, lunch, “Great Lawn” cocktail-and-tapas hour (3–4 p.m.), and dinner seven days a week from July 1–August 31.

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Add instant glamour to any look with Oscar de la Renta’s tripletier rose pavé drop earrings in pewter, glass, and brass. $345.

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The Fiamma was designed for mother and daughter alike—a contemporary handbag with a cross-generational appeal. Here, the mini in plum and bisque with leather fringe. $2,950. Salvatore Ferragamo: 866.337.7242 or ferragamo.com/fiamma.

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MOSCOT’s round, rather nerdy Lemtosh frame has served generations of creative, thoughtful, free-spirited intellectuals and artistes—and now comes in a dazzling shade of ruby. $240 as opthalmic.

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Hermès is reinventing the bandana with a giant 140-cm scarf, drawing inspiration from equestrian elements and reinterpreting iconic house designs such as the “Peuple du vent.” $850. Hermès: 800.441.4488 or hermes.com.

Orange you glad you stumbled upon this racer top ($270) and rider bottom ($200) by ERES? Perfect for the pool or beach. ERES: At ERES East Hampton, 631.604.5544.

Spice things up in Jimmy Choo’s Lexi sandal in tabasco suede with patent leather. $950. Jimmy Choo: At select Jimmy Choo stores, 866.524.6687, or jimmychoo.com.

At MONC XIII, Natasha Esch has the beautiful home curated to a T, down to this Tulipmania

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water pitcher with three tulips

Herrera’s bee-print A-line dress, a

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buzzy staple for summer. $1,990.

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It’s hard to decide between Kara Ross’s gold Petra drop earrings in

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Fly away in Nonoo’s Oiseau double-Georgette tee with keyhole back ($325) and Oiseau crêpe de chine tea-length tapered skirt ($395) with marine wool hooded parka ($595). Nonoo: Available at Bloomingdale’s or 646.559.8393.

Just in time for polo season, Riedel introduces the two-foot-tall mouth-

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Slip on the Tiffany Blue Book 2014 Sapphire Scallop Cuff in round blue sapphires and round brilliant diamonds in 18-kt. white gold, and you won’t want to take it off. $250,000.

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We’re pretty sure you’ll identify with David Yurman’s exotic stone narrow I.D. bracelet with tiger’s eye in sterling silver. $1,795. David Yurman: 712 Madison Ave., 212.752.4255, or davidyurman.com.

For a truly polished look, pick up Ralph Lauren’s Carbon Fiber Briefcase, featuring a luxe front leather flap secured by a polished lock. Made in Italy. $2,500. Ralph Lauren: At select Ralph Lauren stores and ralphlauren.com.

The go-to-shoe gurus at Stubbs & Wootton have collaborated with CJ Laing to offer the exclusive Beacon Flax—the “it” slipper of the season. $495. Stubbs & Wootton at CJ Laing: 44 Centre St., Nantucket (774.333.3935) and No. 34 Via Mizner, Palm Beach (561.820.0039).

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BY PAUL JEROMACK

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE kind of summer vacation? Some people can’t wait to slather on the sunscreen at the beach, others go mountain-climbing and bird-watching, and another group loves to explore cool churches and museums in search of aesthetic refreshment.

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of upstate, the Thomas Cole National Historical Site in Catskill, New York, offers visitors the opportunity to savor both the glories of the outdoors and the delights of great American landscape painting with its current exhibition Master, Mentor, Master: Thomas Cole and Frederick Church. Curated by the esteemed scholar of American

painting John Wilmerding, the show focuses on the warm artistic friendship of landscape painters Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and his pupil Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900).

Cole was a born Englishman who moved to America with his family when he was 18. His fondness for the landscapes of the Hudson Valley steered his

Clockwise, from top left: “Beacon off Mount Desert Island” by Frederic Edwin Church, 1851; Church inspired a style of landscape painting in America, as seen in “The Long Haul” by Barbara Ernst Prey; Church particularly loved the countryside of Maine, like this sunset over Mount Katahdin; Church’s “Sunset, Bar Harbor,” 1864. Opposite page: “Above the Clouds at Sunrise” by Church, 1849.

artistic calling toward landscape painting. His feeling for American terrain was enriched by his trips to Europe where he met his former compatriots, J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and John Martin, absorbing from them the lessons of the European grand manner of Claude and the monumental grandeur of nature’s sublimeness, wild and unfet-

tered. Upon Cole’s return to America, he combined both seemingly antithetical influences in such grand allegorical landscape series as The Course of Empire (in the New-York Historical Society), which earned him great fame and established him as the leading virtuoso of landscape painting in America.

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1844, Cole took on the 18-year-old Frederic Church, a young man from Hartford, as a student. Cole recognized the prodigiously talented young man as a kindred spirit, bringing him along on long sketching and painting expeditions and instilling in him both the lessons of the European landscape tradition and a sensitivity to the vagaries of the American J U LY 2 0 1 4 5 9

Clockwise, from top: “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow,” 1836 by Thomas Cole; Cole’s “Imaginary Landscape with Towering Outcrop,” circa 1846–47; “The Falls of the Kaaterskill” by Cole, 1826. Opposite page: Cole did a series in 1826 of the beautiful two-drop waterfall in Kaaterskill Falls, located in the eastern Catskill Mountains of New York.

wilderness. He would advise him “not be a leaf-painter.”

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freer, more expansive vision of landscape based more on observed natural reality than heightened drama. Even when depicting a scene from literature, Church seems more grounded in the real. The destruction wrought by Cole’s

nature in such a picture as “The Voyage of Life: Manhood” (1840) excites like a scene from a movie, while Church’s “Christian on the Borders of the Valley of the Shadow of Death (from Pilgrims Progress)” or “Storm in the Mountains with a Blasted Tree” (1847) seems as bracingly real as a vacation snapshot uploaded to Facebook.

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One of the delights of the exhibition is the “plein air” landscape oil sketches, seemingly executed by master and pupil side by side. Several sketches accompany the finished pictures, and as inviting as Cole’s finished “Hunters Return” (1845) is, it is the nearly identical tiny sketch, executed with a sure free brush, where the scene comes to life. Church’s

“Study of a View near Stockbridge, Massachusetts” (1847), briskly rendered in juicy rivulets of pigment, seems just one step away from Impressionism.

If one has time when one is at the Cole House, one should arrange a landscape tour sponsored by the museum where visitors are taken to the same places that inspired Cole and Church, Certainly,

some are very different having experienced the encroaching of 20th-century civilization, but there are also places that remain straitly and blissfully unchanged—a perfect balm for a Catskill summer afternoon.

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NEW YORK’S FINEST “THE MARKET IN northern Westchester

trails the market in southern Westchester by a year or two,” says Daniel H. Ginnel, president and C.E.O. of Ginnel Real Estate. “We have incredible homes that are selling for less than they were seven or eight years ago. Right now represents a phenomenal opportunity to buy a home at prices similar to those in 2009. I believe anyone who is smart enough to buy a home today will be well rewarded in five years. I think that’s why we are seeing so many very intelligent people making a move.”

Ginnel Real Estate boasts a superior portfolio of homes throughout Westchester County, with gems in Bedford, Bedford Hills, and Katonah.

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style home from 1928 with an indoor pool. The 13 acres feature a gated drive, a guest house, an outdoor pool, a seven-car garage, and a tennis court. The property is listed for $7.95 million.

At 27 Heron Lake Drive in Bedford, New York, a Modernist-style home is outfitted with floor-to-ceiling windows that define the façade. The six-acre property rests on Blue Heron Lake with a beach, a boat house, and a dock as well as a four-bedroom guest house. The property is listed for $7.8 million.

At 29 Upper Hook Road in Katonah, New York, a country house constructed in 1938 counts a home theater, a gym, and a wood-paneled library among its many amenities. Outside, there are an Olympicsized pool and pool house with a fireplace, a two-bedroom guest house, and

grounds with a brook and stone walls.

The property is listed for $8.95 million.

At 159 North Salem Road in Katonah, New York, a 19th-century Colonial-style home rests on 10 acres of land with a six-stall barn, a salt-water pool and pool house, and a tennis court. The property is listed for $6.95 million.

At 382 Harris Road in Bedford Hills, New York, an 11,000-square-foot estate designed by the renowned Shope Reno Wharton Architects sits on a farm of 28 acres. Outside, there are a 180x90–foot riding ring, four paddocks, and a fourstall barn—plus access to riding trails.

The property is listed for $12.5 million. u For more information, contact Ginnel Real Estate at 914.234.9234 or info@ginnel.com.

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The portfolio of properties on the market in Westchester with Ginnel Real Estate are the best of the best. Buyers are advised to act with haste when it comes to these estates, which boast amenities and acreage.

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This page, clockwise from top: A 1928 Georgian estate harkens back to the Golden Age; the guest house at Riverbend Farm in Bedford Hills, New York; a country house, built in 1938, decorated by an Architectural Digest “Top 100” designer; an L-shaped home on Blue Heron Lake, constructed of stone, stucco, glass, and wood; a view of the water from the dock; a premier property in the Bedford area, Riverbend Farm rests on 28 acres. Opposite page: A bird’s eye view of Willow Green Farm, the quintessential estate.

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ACROSS THE BOARD FOR MANY PEOPLE, Cynthia Cannon

Cogswell has become a legend in her lifetime. She has always seemed larger than life, and not only physically. Over six feet tall, she has an outsized personality to match. She has always done as she’s pleased and she speaks her mind with little regard for the effect of her remarks.

Most of all, she has lived life to the hilt.

Cynthia’s love of horses came from her father, Dr. A. Benson Cannon, a New York dermatologist who moved to Millbrook for the hunting. He was known as a real character who always had very good horses. As he probably would have wanted, he died in the hunting field of a heart attack. During the week, the Cannons lived in the city, where Cynthia went to Chapin. On weekends she hunted with her father, but mostly she showed (much to her mother’s disapproval).

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riders of her time. The two women became joint owners of Marchized, a horse found and trained by Bosley. In 1954, ridden by Mikey Smithwick, Marchized won the Maryland Hunt Cup, a race said

by Sports Illustrated to be “the world’s most difficult race to win.” Although it is commonplace today, Bosley was the first woman ever to train a Hunt Cup winner.

By the late 1950s, Cynthia had married James K. Cogswell, a former naval officer.

In 1962, four years after her son, Jamie, was born, she moved to England, where she became involved with flat racing. She won a number of races with Nigella Damascena, a filly trained by Henry Cecil.

Cynthia also developed an interest in the breeding of thoroughbreds. Thanks to her eye for a good horse and her willingness to take chances, she once bought a mare called Santa Carina for £5 or £6 thousand, bred her, and sold the colt for 30,000 guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.

In the early 1970s, Cynthia returned to this country, where she continued flat racing. In 1974, she hired 21-year-old John B. Secor, Betty Bosley’s nephew, as her trainer. After watching him ride, Cynthia told him she would love to have him be her trainer on one condition: if he trained for her, she wanted him to quit riding steeplechase horses because she didn’t want to get a stable of horses and have him get hurt.

Secor says, “The timing was perfect.”

After two years as leading amateur jockey, he had turned professional and “was starving. I’d done enough, won enough big races, and preferred to bow out while I could. She was my first prominent owner and always took great pride in helping me get started.” They were very successful, and the white and red silks Cynthia inherited from her father were on the winners of more than 50 races. Cynthia, who liked to gamble, often said, “I picked a trainer

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BY CAROLA KITTREDGE LOTT

This page, from left: Cynthia Cannon Cogswell holds the Maryland Hunt Cup trophy she won in 1954 with her horse, Marchized; Cynthia in her Millbrook Hunt colors; the Horse Trials at the classically beautiful Fitch’s Corner farm in Millbrook, New York.

Opposite page: Although she loved all aspects of horse racing, Cynthia was especially passionate about breeding.

who had never trained horses before.”

That same year, Governor Hugh Carey instituted the New York–bred program to promote the sport of racing in the state.

The breeder of a New York horse that placed among the first four finishers received 25 percent of the horse’s winnings.

The owner of a stallion that sired a winner would receive 15 percent. The program also raised the purses by 40 percent. Although she loved racing and was successful, Cynthia’s main interest was always the breeding. As someone said, she could read the stud book as if it were a novel.

The New York–bred program seemed just what she wanted. “I’ve always raised horses, but unless you’re very rich, you can’t afford to get into the breeding business without some sort of incentive,” she said.

She gave up her horses in Maryland and bought the 140-acre riding complex in Millbrook, just up the road from where she grew up. Closeburn Stud, as she called it, had a 50-stall barn as well as a heated indoor ring that was perfect for breaking in yearlings, and turning out horses in bad weather. When one of her stallions, Fratello Ed, was voted New York Horse of the Year in 1978, the Daily Racing Form wrote that getting him was a “coup for any new establishment aiming to share in the rich

New York racing and breeding program.”

Central Command, the only son of Secretariat standing at stud in New York, was also stalled at Closeburn Stud.

“I know we can raise as good horses here as anywhere in the world,’’ Cynthia told a reporter. “In my own backyard, the land is full of limestone and the water with minerals, both important for horses. Something most people don’t know is that you can’t raise good horses where you can grow rhododendrons that thrive,’’ remarking that her own rhododendrons were less than impressive.

As a friend remembers, “Cynthia had as good an eye for paintings and furniture as she did for a horse.” Although she likened her one-story brick house to a “neo-Georgian ranch,” she made it immensely attractive. The 30-foot living room, with its eclectic mix of antiques furnished in her favorite red, pink, and turquoise, was perfect for the parties she loved to give. And her parties were not limited to indoors.

In 1982, society columnist Suzy reported in the New York Post that Cynthia gave a fête champêtre “in her all-white garden blooming with dogwoods, horse chestnuts, and lilac, the John Hainses and the Franklin Roosevelts were among those who assembled to eat smoked pheasant,

blue eggs, cannelloni, and fresh strawberries. The blue eggs are supposedly laid by a rare South American chicken.”

For many years, Cynthia never missed a hunt ball and most men mentioned how well she danced. The dancing could get out of hand, such as the evening at the Spuyten Duyvil when Cynthia got up and danced with J.B. Secor and Angel Cordero. Nobody could forget Bill Free’s birthday party, when Cynthia emerged from the cake wearing fishnet stockings and lots of feathers, nor the coaching lunch at Fraleigh Hill Farm when, rather than use the entrance to the tent, she climbed over the fence, showing off her rather magnificent legs to the assembled guests. And there were her clothes—always chic, but often flamboyant.

As Secor said, “She always used to say, You go big or you stay on the farm. She came in big, and we played big as long as we could. I’ve never been with anybody that had more fun with money. I wish she had had plenty of money because she would have had plenty of fun.”

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OPEN HOUSE

HEAVEN IN EAST HAMPTON THIS ESTATE—nestled on 2.2 acres in

East Hampton—is one-of-a-kind, with details that will delight its owners and their friends. The home, a gem, is situated south of the highway with proximity to the beach as well as the eateries and shops that East Hampton is known for.

Enter the estate through its gates, which open to a haven of greenery and elegant, Old World charm. Inside the Georgian-style home, you’ll find a foyer 66 QUEST

enhanced by a grand staircase with balustrade—sure to impress guests.

Comprised of 13,000 square feet, the estate boasts eight bedrooms: three master bedroom suites, three en-suite bedrooms, and two bedrooms for staff with a shared space for living. Throughout the home, you’ll find a 16-seat theater, a gym, and a library with wine room as well as three living rooms (one formal and two informal) and five fireplaces.

Additionally, the property boasts a 55-foot heated pool made from gunite accompanied by a pool house and spa as well as a tennis court. It is listed for $12.4 million. u For more information, please contact Gene Stilwell of Town & Country Real Estate’s East Hampton office at 631.324.8080 ext. 218 or gstilwell@1townandcountry.com.

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The embodiment of elegance—a 13,000-square-foot, Georgian-style estate in East Hampton. With the amenities of the 21st century (including a 55-foot heated pool) and a lot of Old World charm, this property is dressed to impress.

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This page, clockwise from top left: The 55-foot heated pool is accompanied by a pool house with area for barbecuing; the grand staircase spirals to the third floor; an aerial of the 13,000-square-foot home; one of five fireplaces; the Georgian-style estate sits on 2.2 acres; the home is the embodiment of elegance. Opposite page: The entrance to the eightbedroom, seven and a half–bathroom estate in East Hampton.

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They’re out of the gates: On July 18, live horse racing will return to the historic Saratoga Race Course, bringing together some of the most noteworthy owners, trainers, jockeys, and horses in the sport to kick off the 2014 season. The Saratoga Race Course is located at 267 Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York. For more information, call 518.584.6200.

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Raven’s Walk tours will lead guests on a spooky stroll through Nantucket at 8 p.m. at the corner of Main and Federal streets, showing off some of the island’s most haunted houses. Keep your eyes open, and expect the unexpected! For more information, call 508.257.4586.

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Saratoga’s All-American Celebration will take place at downtown Saratoga Springs from 9 a.m. through 9:30 p.m.

Enjoy fireworks and celebrate Independence Day. For more information, call 518.290.0874.

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The annual American Picnic, featuring Fireworks by Grucci, will be held at 1030 Meadow Lane in Southampton, New York, from 7 to 10 p.m. For more information, call 631.283.5847.

York. This year’s fair will honor American representationalist Jane Freilicher with a Lifetime Achievement Award and Robert Wilson as the Arts Patron of the Year. For more information, call 212.358.9516.

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The New York City Ballet will hold its opening night at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. For more information, call 518.584.9330.

The New York City Ballet will celebrate its “Ballet Gala Lawn Party: A Royal Garden Affair” at 108 Avenue of the Pines in Saratoga Springs, New York, at 6 p.m. The English-style event draws inspiration from the Royal Family Crown Jewels and the sophisticated garden parties at Buckingham Palace. For more information, call 518.584.9330.

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ArtHamptons will take place at the Sculpture Fields of NOVA’s Ark in Bridgehampton, New

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Fort Ticonderoga, located near the south end of Lake Champlain in upstate New York, will host its annual garden party at 5 p.m. The event will feature live music and a silent auction. Guests are encouraged to wear “garden attire,” as prizes will be given for best use of flowers, most timeless attire, most creative hat, and best-coordinated couple. For more information, call 518.585.2821.

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The historic Saratoga Race Track will open for the season at 11 a.m. For more information, call 518.584.6200.

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continue to take place in a state-of-the-art 100,000-squarefoot pavilion located on the 18-acre property directly behind the Elks Lodge. A VIP opening party will take place at 6 p.m. on July 24. For more information, call 212.729.0834.

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LET THE MUSIC PLAY

Celebrating 20 years of “Toby’s Dream” on the East End, the Perlman Music Program will host its gala in East Hampton at 6 p.m. For more information, call 212.877.5045.

MAGIC IN THE WATER

On August 2, the Perlman Music Program will host its summer gala, celebrating 20 years of “Toby’s Dream” on the East End, at 6 p.m. in East Hampton. For more information, call 212.877.5045.

FILM BUFFS

Founded in 2010 to nurture and encourage community dialogue and creative achievement through the art of documentary film, newportFILM will host its fifth annual summer benefit at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, at 6 p.m. For more information, call 773.350.0946.

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LIBERAL ARTS

Art Southampton, an international Contemporary and Modern Art fair and marketplace, will return for its third year July 24–28. The 2014 fair will feature a carefully selected group of 80 international art galleries exhibiting paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and video installations at Southampton’s Elks Lodge. Art Southampton will

The Watermill Center—a laboratory for young and emerging artists located in Water Mill, New York— will celebrate its 21st annual summer benefit at 6 p.m., bringing together the worlds of art, theater, fashion, and design.

Watermill is a haven for future generations of artists, supporting their work among a network of international institutions and venues that embrace new interdisciplinary approaches. For more information, call 631.726.4628.

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The Saratoga Hospital Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Saratoga Hospital health care system, will host its 32nd annual summer benefit auction at Polo Meadow at Saratoga Casino and Raceway at 6 p.m. This year’s theme is “A Mad Tea Party,” so come prepared to have a wild time! For more information, call 518.587.3222.

SUMMER NIGHTS

Southampton Hospital’s 56th annual summer party, themed Endless Summer, will take place under the tents at Wickapogue Road at 6:30 p.m. The event will be chaired

by Laura Lofaro and emceed

by Chuck Scarborough. For more information, call 212.580.0835.

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The Peconic Land Trust will hold its 12th annual Through Farms and Fields benefit at the private waterfront home of Rich Hogan and Carron Sherry. For more information, call 631.283.3195.

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A GILDED AFFAIR

Guild Hall’s gala will take place at 158 Main Street in East Hampton at 7 p.m. There will also be an exclusive VIP preview for gala guests, which will begin at 5 p.m. For more information, call 631.324.0806.

TO THE BRIDGE

Saratoga Bridges—an organization dedicated to developing educational opportunities, increasing physical and verbal communication, enhancing daily living skills, and promoting better personal and social opportunities—will hold its annual White Party at Fasig-Tipton at 7 p.m., which will feature food by Mazzone Hospitality Catering. For more information, call 518.587.0723.

DECORATION DAY

The 2014 Hampton Designer Showhouse will open with a preview cocktail party at 6 p.m. and will run until Labor Day, Monday, September 1, in Bridgehampton. The Showhouse, now in its 14th year, is a showcase for America’s premier design talent. Over 25 top interior designers and decorative artists will turn a shingle-style home into a decorative masterpiece.

For more information, call 212.980.1711.

On August 9, Nantucket Race Week will kick off its festivities, featuring nine days of regattas, awards ceremonies, and parties, all of which will be hosted by Nantucket Yacht Club and Great Harbor Yacht Club to benefit Nantucket Community Sailing. For more information, call 508.228.6600.

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BY ALEX R. TRAVERS PHOTOGRAPHED BY NICHOLAS MELE

NEWPORT STATE OF MIND Let’s talk about Newport—arguably America’s cathedral of seaports. With summer underway, families are reuniting with their grandkids and grandparents in one of New England’s most authentic towns. Anyone who’s ever dreamed big will recognize Newport’s mansions on Ten Mile Drive: The Breakers, Marble House, Rosecliff—the manors that stand as a testament to its Gilded Age past. But you may not know the generational families of Newport today—those who still own the docks and shipyards, define and sustain its cultural outposts, and proudly call this town their home. Here, Quest takes a look at the august families of Newport who protect its heritage and maintain its provenance.

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The Dana family, pictured at their Newport Shipyard. Back row, from left: Charlie and Rose “Posy� Dana; Isabella Dana Ridall; Wilkes Ridall; Andrew Ridall; Lauren Dana; Rose Dana.

Front row, from left: Charles Ridall; Eli Dana.

Opposite page: The foggy calm of Newport.

“The architectural heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, encompasses the rich and lively history of the people who have lived there.”

—Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture

This page: Peter and Nina Taselaar. Opposite page, clockwise from top: The Newport Art Museum, founded in 1912, is located at 76 Bellevue Avenue and is one of the oldest continuously operating art associations in the United States; Eames Yates; Kelly Cushing sits on the rocks at her family house, The Ledges.

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Above, from left: Lilla Ohrstrom (red shirt); Helen Hilliard (black shirt); Chris Ohrstrom (khaki slacks); Elias Ohrstrom (pink shirt); David Hilliard (blue shirt); Delilah Ohrstrom (sitting in front of Chris Ohrstrom); Daisy Hilliard; Findley Ohrstrom; Susie Matheson; Charley Hilliard (standing in back); Bonnie Matheson (daughter of Ruth Buchanan); Murdoch “Bear� Matheson; and Murdoch Matheson.

Below: Freddy Cushing (left); Hilary Dick (right). Opposite page: Tom Quinn, at home.

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This page: Guillaume and Molly de Ramel with their children, Charles and Elizabeth. Opposite page, clockwise from top: Topsy Taylor; Earl and Elizabeth McMillen; Mrs. Claiborne “Nuala� Pell (inset).

“The architectural fabric of Newport reflects more than 300 years of significant contributions to American architectural history.”

—The Preservation Society of Newport County

This page: Winston Lapham. Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Howard and Nora Cushing with their sons, Jamie and Howard, at their home, The Ledges; Oatsie Charles; Andrea Van Beuren and Roger Kass with their son, Lucian; Helen Winslow; a topiary camel on the lawn of Doris Duke’s Rough Point, one of Newport’s great mansions (inset).

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Clockwise, from top: David Ray on his boat, Excel; Andrea Ahern (left), Marika Kielland (center), and Sean Boyles (right); Timmy Warburton; flowers bloom in Newport, adding to the scenic beauty (inset). Opposite page: John and Liza Olympitis.

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A RACE THROUGH TIME America’s oldest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds, the Travers Stakes is the Saratoga Race Course’s signature event.

BY BRIEN BOUYEA

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The Complete List of Winners of the Travers Stakes

ONE OF THOSE CLASSIC Saratoga showdowns loomed in the 1962 Travers Stakes as a pair of elite colts—Jaipur and Ridan—prepared to slug it out for supremacy in the three-year-old division. It was a typical warm August afternoon with a typical Spa Saturday crowd of 26,183 in attendance for the 93rd running of the Midsummer Derby.

Nothing about the race, however, was typical. Nothing about the Travers ever is.

George D. Widener’s Jaipur won the Flash and Hopeful at the Spa the summer before, and was riding a five-race win streak—including a victory in the Belmont—entering the 1962 Travers. Mrs. Moody Jolley’s Ridan was also a known commodity, thanks to wins in the Florida Derby, Arlington Classic, and Blue Grass Stakes earlier in the year.

Lined up next to each other, Jaipur and Ridan both broke well from the gate and quickly engaged in an epic confrontation that spanned one and a quarter miles around the famed Spa oval. Under Manuel Ycaza, Ridan took a half-length lead into the first turn, but the menacing presence of Jaipur and Bill Shoemaker lurked right behind.

There was minuscule separation between the two colts on the backstretch. Neither foe was willing to concede even an inch. Ridan carried Jaipur wide on the final turn, but Jaipur was unfazed as they thundered down the stretch in one of the most thrilling races Saratoga has ever played host to. As the tension reached a fever pitch in the final strides, Jaipur extended himself just enough to sneak his This page: In 2011, Stay Thirsty became the leader of the American three-year-old colt division after winning the Travers Stakes. Opposite page: A depiction of the crowds at the Saratoga Race Course in 1937, when men like F. Ambrose Clark and E. R. Bradley could be spotted in the stands.

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nose past the finish line ahead of Ridan in a photo finish for the ages.

Jaipur had broken Man o’ War’s 42-year-old stakes record and in the process essentially wrapped up the three-year-old division championship. Neither horse won another race that year, but Ridan exacted a measure of revenge when he defeated Jaipur, as well as the great Kelso, in the following year’s Palm Beach Handicap.

The 1962 Travers is regarded by many historians as one of the greatest races in American history, but the Midsummer Derby has a long legacy of producing thrilling results. From its inaugural running in 1864 to the gripping dead heat between Alpha and Golden Ticket in 2012, the Travers Stakes is annually one of the premier events on the American racing calendar.

“I think, without question, the best way to put it, without insulting anybody, or without showing my own prejudice, I would say [the Travers] is the fourth leg of the Triple Crown,” said Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito, who won the 2004 Travers with Birdstone. “The Triple Crown is three legs, but the Travers stands alone by itself. It is very, very important, and I like to participate in it.”

Saratoga Race Course opened for the first time on August 2, 1864. The first race at the new track was, fittingly, the Travers. The event was named in honor of William R. Travers, the first president of the Saratoga Association.

Travers undoubtedly enjoyed himself that day, as the legendary racehorse Kentucky, of whom Travers was a co-owner, won the first running of the Travers Stakes. Kentucky was

This page: The Saratoga Association, part of the venerable New York Racing Association, gathered here in 1927 (top); philanthropist and prominent socialite Marylou Whitney, who lives at the Cady Hill House in Saratoga Springs, New York (inset).

one of the greatest sons of the magnificent sire Lexington. Nine of the first 15 winners of the Travers were sired by Lexington.

Kentucky went on to win the first two editions of the famed Saratoga Cup in 1865 and 1866 en route to being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Kentucky is one of 23 Travers winners to eventually earn Hall of Fame honors. Some of the greats include Man o’ War, Twenty Grand, Whirlaway, Native Dancer, Buckpasser, Damascus, Easy Goer, and Holy Bull.

Several of the 19th century’s top horses won the Travers, including Hall of Famers Harry Bassett (1871), Duke of Magenta (1878), Hindoo (1881), and Henry of Navarre (1894).

The fourth edition of the Travers, in 1867, was won by Ruthless. She was the first of three fillies, along with Liza (1895) and Lady Rotha (1915), to win the Travers.

The Travers was not run in 1896, 1898, 1899, and 1900 due to financial reasons. It also shut down in 1911 and 1912 because antigambling forces shut down New York racing.

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Travers has produced many memorable results.

Here are a few: 1874: Attila and Acrobat finish in a dead heat. The race distance at the time was 1¾ miles, but instead of having co-winners both horses were given a brief rest before a run-off at the same distance. Pierre Lorillard’s Attila prevailed for trainer William Pryor and jockey George Barbee. Attila actually ran faster in the run-off, shaving his time by three-quarters of a second to 3:09.

1881: Hindoo, arguably the greatest horse of the 19th century, wins the Travers. His victory is part of an 18-race winning streak that was earned from May through August. It was the first of a record four wins in the Travers for jockey James McLaughlin. Hindoo was trained by James Rowe, Sr., who won the race as a jockey in 1872. Rowe went on to win the Travers twice more as a trainer.

1920: Man o’ War, considered by many to be the greatest racehorse of all time, wins the Travers in 2:01, a record time that stood until bested by Jaipur, 42 years later. The Man o’ War Cup, which Man o’ War originally won by defeating 1919 Triple Crown winner Sir Barton in a match race, is now presented each year to the winner of the Travers.

1930: Jim Dandy, at odds of 100-1, defeats Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox on a muddy track. It is the only loss of the year for Gallant Fox and Jim Dandy’s only win from 20 starts.

The result still ranks among the biggest upsets in racing history.

1941: During the first of back-to-back Horse of the Year campaigns, Calumet Farm’s Whirlaway becomes the first—and, to this date, only—Triple Crown champion to win the Travers.

1967: Horse of the Year Damascus turns in arguably the most brilliant performance of his Hall of Fame career with a 22-length romp in the Travers.

1969: Future Hall of Famer Arts and Letters easily wins the 100th running of the Travers to give Pail Mellon’s Rokeby Stable its second of five wins in the Midsummer Derby.

1978: Continuing one of the sport’s all-time greatest rivalries, Affirmed crosses the finish line ahead of Alydar in the Travers, but Affirmed is taken down for interference and Alydar is declared the winner.

1979: A year after winning the Saratoga Special and Hopeful, General Assembly, a son of Secretariat, sets the track record in the Travers of 2:00, which still stands.

1982: Canadian invader Runaway Groom wins the Travers at odds of 13-1, defeating Kentucky Derby winner Gato Del Sol, Preakness winner Aloma’s Ruler, and Belmont winner Conquistador Cielo.

1992: After winning the Jim Dandy earlier in the meet, Thunder Rumble becomes the first New York–bred to win the Travers since 1867.

2001: Future Hall of Famer Point Given delivers a blistering performance to become the first horse to ever win four consecutive $1 million races with a victory in the Travers.

He previously won the Preakness, Belmont, and Haskell.

2004: Future Hall of Famers Zito and Edgar Prado team up with Marylou Whitney’s Birdstone to win a memorable running of the Travers as a powerful thunderstorm descends upon Saratoga and the race is contested in near darkness.

2012: In the first dead heat in the Travers since 1874, Golden Ticket, at 33-1 odds, crosses the finish line simultaneously with Alpha, the favorite.

One of the great Saratoga traditions associated with the Travers, dating back to 1961, is to have the winning owner be given the honor of having their silks painted on a canoe that sits in the infield pond until the next year’s race. With Golden Ticket and Alpha finishing in a dead heat, two canoes were placed in the pond for the first time and stayed there until a single winner, Will Take Charge, won the chapter in 2013.

“It’s a race with so much history. Everybody wants to win the Travers because it’s such an important race and has so much prestige with it,” said Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero, Jr., who won 14 riding titles at the Spa and won the 1985 Travers with Chief’s Crown. “I feel lucky to have won the Travers. I wish I had won it a few more times, but just to say I won that race is pretty special.”

Zito says the Travers is always circled on his calendar. Saratoga’s oldest and most prestigious race will be run for the 145th time on Saturday, August 23, anchoring a tremendous card that also features the King’s Bishop, Test, and Ballston Spa. “The Triple Crown is over, this year, on June 7,” Zito said. “Then, you have a lull, and racing itself has a lull. And then, for some reason, when you get to Saratoga it builds up and builds up. And then when you get to the Travers, if you are fortunate enough to have a three-year-old to run in it, you love it.” u

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HIGH STAKES OVER 100,000 COLORFULLY dressed racing fans crammed Belmont Park on June 7 to see whether California Chrome could break the 36-year dry spell between Triple Crown winners (Affirmed was the last in 1979). Ladies got out their best hats and the men dressed in seersucker and fedoras as a sparkling undercard—with more than $7 million in purses over 11 races—built the excitement to a fevered pitch as the beautiful afternoon unfolded.

From the moment we parked in the stable area until we left seven hours later, there were racing people from around the country everywhere. Stuart Janney III, vice chairman of the Jockey Club, whose father bred and ran the tragic heroine Ruffian, presided over his table in the Trustees Room and later in the day won the Brooklyn Handicap with Norumbega. Cot and Anne Campbell of Dogwood Stable were also lunching in the Trustees Room with Paul Orrefice. Cot’s horse, Palace Malice, winner of last year’s Belmont, won the prestigious Metropolitan Mile later on as well. Triple Crown contenders Kid Cruz and Bayern also won nice races on the undercard, proving the quality of California Chrome’s victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness.

Virginia Guest Valentine, Nathan Saint-Amand, and Bronson and Stella Thayer were in the paddock. In the box section, we saw Elliott Walden, Anna Webb Petter, Robbie Douglas, Emilia Fanjul, Jerry and Maury Shields, Dinny Phipps, Jennifer Davis (up from Charleston), and Theresa Melhado. Kip and Helen Elser had come in from Camden, South Carolina, and sat with the West Point Stables contingent on the North Shore Terrace.

Later in the day—as the crowds surged and betting lines lengthened before the big race—my old college friend John Egan and I ducked into the Turf & Field Club for a little “bourbon and branch” to hone our handicapping skills and heighten our powers of recollection.

The Belmont has been run since 1867, when it was originally at Jerome Park in the Bronx. The park was built by Leonard Jerome, the grandfather of Winston Churchill, and the event financed by August Belmont, Sr., for whom the race was named.

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owned by Chappy Morris’ grandparents. In May of 1905, the race moved to the new Belmont Park in Elmont, Long Island, where it has been run ever since. At a mile and a half, it is a grueling test for horses, especially those who have competed in the previous Triple Crown races. A huge crowd assembled on this sunny June afternoon to see if California Chrome was up to the challenge. Could he finally be the one to do what Affirmed and Seattle Slew had last managed to achieve in the late 1970s?

Could he put on the kind of record-breaking performance that gave Secretariat his 31-length victory in 2:24 back in 1973? As we sipped our drinks, Frank Sinatra, Jr. sang “New York, New York,” the horses came out for the post parade, and the excitement rose.

A deafening roar went up from the crowd as the horses broke from the gate, with Commander in the lead, and headed into the first wide turn. The lightly raced Tonalist, who had skipped the Derby and Preakness owing to an illness but won the Peter Pan at Belmont in May, stayed close to him, and California Chrome moved up the rail. As they went into the far turn, California Chrome, under Victor Espinoza, went five wide to get racing room—a move that was later criticized as too tiring for him. Maybe, maybe not. He ran a gallant race, and it later was revealed that California Chrome had been kicked leaving the starting gate, which gave him a hoof injury. In the end, he was not able to run down Commander and finished in a dead heat for fourth place. However, Tonalist got into gear, slowly closed the gap, and won by a stirring head at the wire. In contrast to California Chrome’s owner, who vented on national television that not racing in all three Triple Crowns was “the coward’s way out,” Tonalist’s owner, Shel Evans, took the high road. “We loved California Chrome and hoped he would win the Triple Crown,” Evans said, “But we love our horse, too.”

Thus the stage is set now—after California Chrome, Tonalist, and the other horses in this year’s three-year-old crop get a good rest—for some exciting stakes later this summer at Saratoga, Santa Anita, and, ultimately, the Breeder’s Cup this fall.

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This page, clockwise from top left: Tonalist, ridden by Joel Rosario, won the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park on June 7; California Chrome, ridden by Victor Espinoza, won the 140th Kentucky Derby but failed to win the Triple Crown; Audax’s great-grandfather, James Butler, with Colonel Matt Winn, “father of the Kentucky Derby;” the horses out of the gate; the 144th running of the Belmont Stakes. Opposite page: Horseman Kip Elser and Audax in the Saratoga paddock, circa 1973.

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WHEN IT COMES TO RUSTIC STYLE,

no one knows more about the subject than Ralph Kylloe. In the late 1970s, Kylloe began collecting rustic furniture, which was little regarded and very inexpensive. But in the ’80s, as rustic-style clothing became popular, Kylloe’s knowledge of the décor and artistry was much in demand. He opened a successful rustic-furniture gallery in the Adirondacks and began decorating stores, restaurants, and private residences across the country. He wrote and photographed 10 books on rustic style, including his newest, Cabins & Camps (Gibbs Smith), which looked at renovating and decorating rural homes. u

Above: An elaborate staircase is the focal point of this house.

The raillings, posts, and spindles are made from bark-off cedar.

Below: A club chair, ottoman, and side chair with a Western theme, designed by Lester Santos.

Opposite page: The fireplace in this townhouse was a collaborative effort—the acrylic hearth was sponge-painted by artist Jack Burgess, rustic artist Doug Tedrow created a mantel made from twigs, and the metal fire screen was crafted

by Jim Gibson.

Above: This boathouse on Lake George is cleverly designed to allow for two boats to be morred indoors, and for a cozy upstairs apartment and large deck. The exterior is sided with shake shingles, and the peeledcedar railings are arranged to form geometric patterns.

Above: Ralph Kylloe’s Adirondacks home, Kamp Kylloe, is nestled on the shores of Lake George. He completely remodeled the home, redesigning the roofline, installing large picture windows, and covering the entire structure with bark-on hemlock.

Hemlock, a highly textured wood, blended in with the 150-yearold white pine trees surrounding the house. The deck and railing are made of cedar.

Left: At Kamp Kylloe, the interior holds many items from Kylloe’s enormous collection of rustic accessories. Here, the kitchen is home to his ever-growing number of antique camp signs, and a 1930s kayak hangs over an island constructed of hemlock and pine.

Below: Rustic artist Barney Bellinger blends a number of elements to make this bed, including fishing poles, antlers, stones, and an original oval-shaped painting.

Above: The bar in this Adirondack home is crafted of yellow birch tree and applied white-birch bark.

Right: This unique two-drawer dresser was created by Peter Winter, and the table clock by Jerry Farrell.

Below: An intricate front door, custom-made by Idaho artist Randy Edgar, is constructed of dried lodgepole pine.

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BY DANIEL CAPPELLO money scoffs at the nouveaux riches and general stores go to battle with Citarella. In spite of the enduringly beautiful natural landscape that appeals to everyone who summers there, it’s no wonder that, given the good-hearted jousting, the Hamptons are sometimes laughed at as “the Hamptoons” (often by those who are still vying and longing to get in).

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HISTORICALLY, the Hamptons have been the summer playground of patrician Northeasterners; in recent decades, they’ve become somewhat of an obsession for anyone yearning for a taste of the good life—from Hollywood film producers building giant summer homes to Wall Street hedge-funders seeking a slice of the American dolce vita.

Much like with colleges, rivalries still exist among the different towns. Southampton was, say, traditionally Roman Catholic while East Hampton was Protestant. Today, however, the comparisons can be almost cartoonish. Old

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Southampton

The Posh Hampton

The Old-School Hampton

Scalise ›

Vilebrequin ›

‹ Italian calf loafers

White jeans

“My family’s been members of the

“Any interest in our foursome

Maidstone since ’91—1891.”

tomorrow?” [golf understood]

The Barefoot Contessa’s smoked salmon

Catered cheese puffs

frittata and Bloody Marys

and champagne ›

‹ Tennis

Hendrick’s and Fever Tree Tonic

Golf

Southside

Whispering Angel ›

‹ Domaines Ott

Nick & Toni’s

Sant Ambroeus ›

Welcome to dine and shop, but no filming allowed

Not really welcome, but tolerated

‹ Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale (“They can get you in

Janet Norton Lee Bouvier (Mrs. John Vernou

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Bouvier III), at the Southampton Horse Show

Modern Luxury’s Beach magazine

Social Life magazine

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The Centurion Card (“AmEx Black”)

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“If you’re a model, I’ve

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got the bottle.”

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Ricotta pancackes with lemon

Raw oyster bar

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Polo (or anything equestrian)

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B.B.C. (Baileys Banana Colada)

‹ Wölffer Estate

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Pierre’s

Duryea’s Lobster Deck

Lukewarm reception

Free to booze and cruise

‹ Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, probably

Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross

biking with Edwin Schlossberg

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Dan’s Papers

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AmEx Gold Delta SkyMiles Card

Venmo ›

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THE HAMPTONS HAVE IT ALL

BY DANIEL CAPPELLO

FOR ANYONE WHO has ever visited, the Hamptons have left their mark on the imagination. Even for the most jaded and cynical, there’s something about this landscape of rolling beaches, sprawling vineyards, privet hedges, and shingled mansions by the sea that sets the heart astir, begging for a return trip—then another, and another, and so on. For some, like American industrialist and businessman Peter M. Brant, it’s the light alone that beckons. “I love going to the Hamptons,” Brant says, quite simply, “as the light is magnificent.” This singular light has called to artists just the same, drawing flocks of them to Long Island’s eastern shores—Willem de Kooning, Ian Hornak, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol—much as the Mediterranean light beckoned Impressionist painters to the South of France.

Detail of the oceanfront estate in Montauk once owned by Andy Warhol,

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A trellised outdoor sitting area and signature gray shingles define this Hamptons home (right), featured in Assouline’s newly released The Big Book of the Hamptons (below), with an introduction by Michael Shnayerson, available at assouline.com or in the Assouline boutique at The Mark hotel (Madison Avenue at 77th Street).

And that is not even the tip of the cultural and writerly iceberg that’s descended and been moved by the beauteous backdrop and way of being: Truman Capote, Robert Caro, E.L. Doctorow, James Fenimore Cooper, James Jones, George Plimpton, Irwin Shaw, John Steinbeck, and Kurt Vonnegut are just some of the literary minds who’ve been motivated by the shores of this uniquely American Riviera.

To put it mildly, the Hamptons have long been a haven for the world’s elite. The area’s breathtaking vistas inspired both Walt Whitman and Winslow Homer; its social forebears include the likes of Gerald and Sara Murphy entertaining greats such as Léger and Fitzgerald. Spectacular estates from the Gilded Age’s business barons, designed by legendary architects like Stanford White, rival the sprawling mansions of today’s hedge-fund managers and the myriad boldface names attracted to this beach-lined hideaway each summer season. And, for however seasoned a Hamptonite one might be (resident or visitor), there is always the thrill of a simple new discovery along the Hamptons’ shores: some new point of view, farm stand, country store, antique-filled barn, or fireplace-warmed restaurant tucked away as if preserved by magic.

For those in search of new views—or a look back at some familiar ones—Assouline this summer has published a new book, The Big Book of the Hamptons, which celebrates the mystique and romance of this iconic and extravagant neighborhood, one of the most fabled in the world.

Exploring the architecture and gardens of these secluded retreats, brought to life with stunning imagery in a deluxe cloth-bound volume, The Big Book of the Hamptons is graced by a delightfully rich and storied introduction by author Michael Shnayerson, who brilliantly engages us with the romantic history and current-day shenanigans of these high-society shores. Punctuated by pull-quotes from some of the area’s better-known residents, visitors, and authorities, The Big Book of the Hamptons glides us past a most picturesque pasture, reminding us why, 100 QUEST

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in seamlessly with the natural Hamptons landscape (above); bikes resting on a weathered wooden fence (below). Opposite page: The entrance to Ralph Lauren’s RRL store at 57 Main Street in East Hampton.

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as Pamela Fiori so fittingly says, “There’s a reason why artists and writers, movie stars and moguls, musicians and composers, fashion designers and decorators, architects and craftsmen, fishermen and farmers have flocked to the Hamptons for all these years. They are drawn by the glorious landscape, the extraordinary light, and the promise of pleasure. One can be social or solitary; active or indolent; walk on the beach or lie in a hammock; rise at dawn or dance the night away. There are precious few places on the planet where there really is something for everyone. The Hamptons have it all.” u

Located at the easternmost part of Long Island, Montauk Point Light was the first lighthouse in New York State; Herrick Hardware lends a mom-and-pop feel to Southampton’s shopping district (inset left); a historic Job’s Lane meets Main Street, where Southampton’s Showing Library once stood (inset right).

HOW TO SPEND IT IN THE HAMPTONS If “the Hamptons” are the go-to summer destination for New Yorkers, then shopping is certainly a large part of the attraction.

Charming , congenial, and carefully curated, these boutiques, salons, and restaurants are must-visits for anyone heading out east this season.

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RALPH LAUREN 31–33 Main Street / East Hampton 631.324.1222 Leave it to Ralph Lauren to craft the perfect shopping environment for the weekend getaway, or, if you’re lucky, a summer-long escape. Inspired by the quintessential Hamptons lifestyle, this boutique captures the casual and sophisticated spirit of the area. Inside, you’ll find intimate spaces, reclaimed wooden floors, white walls, beautiful millwork, and, of course, spectacular clothes for every occasion. Outside, the exquisitely decorated patios are entirely inviting, featuring cozy furniture and lush, budding greenery. After you make your purchase(s), grab an iced tea, sit in the shade, and relax... This is shopping at its best.

THE MONOGRAM SHOP 7 Newtown Lane / East Hampton 631.329.3379 In a world where so much is mass-produced, the Monogram Shop strives to make its items personal. But at this family-owned boutique, it’s about more than adding initials or text to a product. After weaving in skillful touches, napkins, towels, glassware, matchbooks, cutting boards, notepads, and clothes become design pieces, wonderful for special occasions or everyday use. The possibilities here are endless and continue to suit both classic and contemporary tastes.

That’s why shoppers keep coming back, year after year, to check out what’s happening at this snappy East Hampton staple.

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74 Montauk Highway / East Hampton 631.604.6700 Free time. The weekend. The casual side of life. That’s Tomas Maier’s manifesto for his namesake brand. Perhaps that’s why his clothes are such a hit in the Hamptons and other chic hamlets where relaxed equals cool and understated is king. The designer’s Hamptons presence isn’t exactly new, but with a recent investment by Kering—the multinational company that also owns Bottega Veneta (where Maier is creative director), Gucci, and Stella McCartney— Maier will really be able to flex his creative muscles and share his vision globally.

DYLAN’S MINI CANDY BAR 52 Main Street / East Hampton 631.324.6181 Confession: I’ve never gone to the Hamptons without stopping at Dylan’s Mini Candy Bar. In fact, it’s now become a first-stop ritual. But, why not? This Willy Wonka–inspired wonderland has it all, from sweet chocolate to mouth-puckering sour candy in every flavor imaginable. If you’re feeling tired from that four-hour Friday evening drive, go for the “energy-packed” gummy bears. Or if it’s sugar-free candy you crave, the store has a large selection of healthier gummies as well. Dylan Lauren, the company’s founder and daughter of designer Ralph Lauren, even offers pop art–inspired apparel, from beach bags to shirts.

BOOKHAMPTON 16 Hampton Road / Southampton 631.283.0270 Insatiable readers know there’s nothing better than devouring books at the beach. And, quite frankly, there’s no better place to fill up on titles than at BookHampton. With its vast selection and friendly staff (check out their top picks), BookHampton has been the neighborhood bookstore for generations of East End residents and vacationers. The charming locale also has branches in East Hampton, Mattituck, and Sag Harbor. This summer, we suggest you go for Emma Straub’s The Vacationers or Beatriz Williams’ A Hundred Summers, which follows the life of socialite Lily Dane and her return to the idyllic oceanfront community of Seaview, Rhode Island. That is, until the idyllic turns inconceivable...

SIP’N SODA 40 Hampton Road / Southampton 631.283.9752 Sip’n Soda, the classic luncheonette famous for its homemade ice cream and lime rickeys, has been a hit since it first came to Southampton in 1958. Today, the diner/soda fountain/ice-cream parlor still maintains its classic charm, perched at 40 Hampton Road in Southampton. Owned

by Mark and Jim Parish, Sip’n Soda serves up delicious dishes to hungry Hamptonites taking breaks from the beach or shopping. Here, there’s something for everyone, but if you’re a fan of the classic milkshake, don’t miss the extra-thick old-fashioned version, made with Sip’n Soda’s flavorful ice cream. It’s delicious!

TORY BURCH 47 Newtown Lane / East Hampton 631.907.9150 When you walk into a Tory Burch store, you are instantly seduced by bold color palettes, contemporary patterns, and art-inspired playfulness. That’s because Tory Burch, the woman, brings her personal style and sensibility to her label, which includes ready-to-wear, shoes, handbags, accessories, and beauty products. What started with a small boutique in Manhattan’s Nolita neighborhood is now a global lifestyle brand that taps into the wants of women around the world. At her East Hampton boutique, you’ll find great pieces from the most recent collections, fun accessories, and other staples for summer. These days, it’s hard to imagine the Hamptons without Tory Burch.

VILEBREQUIN 42 Jobs Lane / Southampton 631.204.1530 Vilebrequin’s president, Brian Lange, calls the Hamptons the Côte d’Azur of the United States.

So it’s fitting that the swim- and resort-wear manufacturer has a stage post out east for its loyal following of fans. New this season is the addition of a women’s and girl’s collection, now sold at the 42 Jobs Lane location. But that shouldn’t leave the men and boys jealous: they’ll still have their pick of the latest and greatest pieces in a wide assortment of colors and prints. And in case you forget your trunks on a day trip to Montauk, stop

by Blue & Cream at Gurney’s Inn. It carries Vilebrequin for men and boys, too.

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2454 Main Street / Bridgehampton 631.537.8967 One of the hardest things to deal with on a vacation is the absence of a great hair stylist. But if you couldn’t get a cut or color before your spur-of-themoment Hamptons getaway, Valery Joseph’s Bridgehampton salon has you covered. Joseph, the Israeli stylist with a background in architecture, may be known for his layered cuts, but his Bridgehampton salon offers even more: cuts, color, make-up (for brides and non-brides, alike), nail care, waxing, and house calls. Whether you have a special event to attend or just want to look (and feel) your best, make an appointment at the salon. During the summer season, Valery Joseph keeps its doors open until 10 p.m., primping and prepping tresses in need.

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“THE PERFECTION OF a yacht’s beauty,” wrote explorer and boat designer John MacGregor, “is that nothing should be there for only beauty’s sake.” Nowhere is this truism more revered than in the hallowed private yacht clubs along the Eastern seabord. Each season, generations set sail from idyllic harbors to navigate the waters of the Atlantic. Here, we take a look at the most prestigious clubs throughout history: how they began, the trophies they’ve won over the years, and the remarkable people who have kept these elite bastions alive. u J. J. Astor boards the launch at New York Yacht Club’s Newport landing.

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Edgartown Yacht Club

American Yacht Club

Since 1844

Since 1905

Since 1883

Above: 1. First won by the NYYC in 1851, the

Below: Founded on January 5, 1905, the Edgar-

Opposite page: 1. Commodore Joseph MacDonough.

America’s Cup is the longest standing trophy in

town Yacht Club has been an important piece

2. AYC skipper Jim Bishop takes home the win.

international sports. 2. John Cox Stevens, the

of maritime history for Martha’s Vineyard for

3. An early trophy dates back to 1888 and was re-

club’s primary organizer and first Commodore.

over a century. Born from what was originally

cently acquired by the Club. 4. 1953’s Long Island

3. Harbour Court, in Newport, R.I., was acquired

called the Home Club, EYC was established

Sound Midget Championship sailors with their

by the NYYC in 1987. 4. The afterguard of Ranger,

by prominent summer and year-round island res-

instructor. 5. Voyagers ready the rigging for the

defender of the 1937 America’s Cup: Rod and

idents. 1. The clubhouse, as seen in a postcard

1974 traditional annual club cruise. 6. Walter Drezek

Olin Stephens, Zenas Bliss, Mrs. Vanderbilt,

from 1942. 2. The club’s modest but charming

skippers the club bar. 7. The old clubhouse burned

Commodore Vanderbilt, and Arthur Knapp.

grey-shingled headquarters, built in 1927.

down in 1951. 8. Junior sailors with their optimists.

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Pequot Yacht Club

Larchmont Yacht Club

Since 1920

Since 1880

This page: 1. The Pequot Clubhouse. 2. Pequot’s

Opposite page: 1. Larchmont Frostbite racers brave

esteemed Commodore Challenge Trophy, awarded to

the wintery winds. 2. International One-Designs

the cruising boat compiling the best record during

hit the waters in 1937 and comprised Larchmont’s

the year. 3. A fearless skipper, Mary Von Conta,

leading fleet for years. 3. Rudolph J. Schaefer’s

serves as her own crew. 4. Yachts docked with the

Edlu claimed the 1934 Bermuda Cup for Larch-

stunning Fairfield Country Club golf course setting

mont; here, the proud owner and his crew. 4. LYC

the backdrop. 5. An aerial view of Southport Harbor.

is nestled in the upper-right corner of this aerial

Settled in 1639, Southport became one of Long

shot of Larchmont Harbor. A model of the famous

Island Sound’s leading coastal ports in the 1800s.

schooner Elena graces the club’s entry hall.

6. Pequot legends John Sherwood, Pell Foster,

6. The palatial Larchmont Clubhouse. 7. Nearly

Rollie Smith, and Robert Finlay at the 1968 Wm.

all the commodores’ boats are immortalized with

Dyer Invitational Regatta at Mamaroneck.

inscribed life preservers on the club’s porch.

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BY GEORGINA SCHAEFFER

This page, clockwise from left: Benoit Drut and Gerard Widdershoven of Maison Gerard; William Georgis, Richard Marshall,

I FIRST CAME TO MADOO quite by accident. It was one of those perfectly endless summer afternoons in college.

After a Southside-infused lunch, my friend Joachim Esteve suggested that we go see his godfather, who lived in Sagaponack. A Norwich terrier sounded our arrival as we entered the kitchen through a screen door that clattered shut behind us. Robert “Bob” Dash sat in the dark, unlit kitchen, drinking straight vodka and smoking unfiltered cigarettes.

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Artist, writer, and consummate gardener, Dash (whose work is in the permanent collections of a dozen national and international museums) bought the two-acre property back in the ’60s. The gardens became his lifelong project, leading him to pen a gardening column for the East Hampton Star and, ultimately, to publish a book of essays, Notes from Madoo. I have returned to Madoo (Scottish for “my dove”) many times since, including for an article that appeared in this mag-

azine. Each time, it is as charming and unexpected as my first visit.

Dash died this past September. But under the stewardship of Alejandro Saralegui, the Madoo Conservancy continues the artist’s lush and living legacy.

The fourth annual “Much Ado About Madoo” weekend fundraiser from June 13–15 brought the largest crowd yet for this little green gem. During Friday night’s cocktail party author Mack Griswold, writer Frances Schultz, Lee

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Stacy McLaughlin, and Noel Aird; the gardens at Madoo; Jamie Niven; Lucas Cowart’s birdhouse at Much Ado About Madoo.

Jofa’s Stephen Elrod, Parasol’s Fernanda Niven and her sister, interior designer Eugenie Goodman, the Wall Street Journal’s Marshall Heymann, and Hamptons Cottages & Gardens’s Kendell Cronstrom were spotted mingling under the arbors. Jamie Niven of Sotheby’s led the live auction, with his five-year-old grandson, Nicholas, offering an opening, if accidental, bid for Dash’s “Poetry Pot.” The youngster also bid on a wren birdhouse designed by Lucas Cowart of Stelle Lomont Rouhani Architects.

About 25 vendors participated in an open-air market, which featured Victoria Amory’s latest condiment collection, Madeline Weinrib’s textiles and pillows, and Seibert & Rice’s Italian terra cotta pots. Deborah Buck and Michael Devine signed their latest tomes, An Invitation to the Garden (Rizzoli) and The Windows of Buck House (Monticelli Press), respec-

Jean Dunand, Jean-Michel Frank, Leleu, Royere, Ruhlmann, and other Art Deco masters. Gerard and his business partner, Benoit Drut, expanded the roster to include contemporary artists such as Claude Lalanne, Achille Salvagni, and Herve Van der Straeten, eventually opening an additional space a few storefronts down from the original gallery. But make no mistake: Maison Gerard events have more of a block-party vibe than that of a fussy art opening thanks to the generous nature of Gerard and Benoit. Both spaces were jammed for cocktail hour with people spilling out onto the street with champagne and cigarettes. On hand for the celebration were Geoffrey Bradfield, Bill Georgis, Richard Marshall, Cynthia Frank, Claiborne Swanson Frank, Michael Boodro, Robert Ruffino, Jim Hedges, Jim Reginato, Sarah Medford, Amy Lau, and Elizabeth Pyne.

as the Olana Partnership’s president, received special recognition. Olana— the 250-acre Persian-style Hudson River estate that belonged to Frederic Church, the famed Hudson River School painter, and his wife, Isabel—was nearly subdivided and destroyed in the ’60s. Today, the partnership seeks not only to protect this space, but also to make accessible the artist’s home and studio to scholars and visitors. The partnership established the awards in 2000 to honor individuals who make an extraordinary contribution to American culture.

Among Peter and Katie’s guests were Gerald and Mita Bland, Mish Tworkowski and Joseph Singer, Peter Lyden, and Christopher Gray, who introduced Peter and Katie at the event. (You may know Gray through his column “Streetscapes” in the New York Times.) Despite being stri-

This page, from left, at the Olana Partnership’s Frederic E. Church Awards Gala: Christopher Gray; Morrison and

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Fenella Heckscher; Katie Ridder and Peter Pennoyer; Kip Forbes, Nonnie Frelinghuysen, and Lily Siegelson.

tively. On Saturday, Saz Borghese, Charlotte Moss, Marge Sullivan, Nonie Sullivan, Isabel Smith, and my mother Marcia Schaeffer were among the ladies who attended a garden lecture by Ethne Clarke.

Back in town the following week, leading design gallery Maison Gerard celebrated its 40th anniversary on June 18.

Founded by Gerard Widdershoven, the East 10th Street gallery has long been a destination for lovers of Jacques Adnet,

The following evening, I was the guest of architect Peter Pennoyer and interior designer Katie Ridder, both of whom were being honored at the Olana Partnership’s “Inside & Out” Frederic E. Church Awards Gala at the New York Public Library. Nonnie Frelinghuysen, who serves as the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was being similarly honored and Sara Griffin, who recently stepped down

dent academics, it’s hard to imagine a cuter couple than Peter and Katie. Morrison Hecksher, chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing, introduced the intelligent and elegant Nonnie, while Burn Oberwagner introduced an effervescent Sara. The live auction raised more than $300,000 to endow the president’s chair that Sara has vacated, which will help to ensure a bright future for this historical landmark. u J U LY 2 0 1 4 1 2 1

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Behati Prinsloo tossed the ball for teams Black Watch

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and Veuve Clicquot.

Alessandro Luongo and Zani Gugelmann at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic, which celebrated its seventh year.

Lo Bosworth joined the 7,000 people in attendance for Team Black Watch

Nacho Figueras, who was awarded MVP

versus Team Veuve Clicquot at Liberty

and Johannes Huebl at Liberty State Park.

State Park on May 31.

Samuel Deutsch, Lisa Seiffert and Michael Commorata at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic on May 31.

Kate Bock was among the PYTs drinking champagne at Liberty State Park on May 31.

Elizabeth Gilpin and DJ Nick Cohen, who

Randy Damico, Dorian Grinspan, Leigh Lezark

entertained VIPs at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic.

and Derek Blasberg stomping the divots.

“THIS ONE IS FOR THE BOYS in the polos, entrepreneurs and

the moguls,” rhymed Nicki Minaj. And, well, I’m dedicating my column similarly...

On May 31, I ferried to Liberty State Park with Andy Gale for the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic to watch Team Black Watch (with Nacho Figueras and his son, Hilario Figueras) battle Team Veuve Clicquot. There, VIPs such as Christianne Amodio, Leah Bourne, Blair Eadie, Melanie Lazenby, and Jon Ortved and very VIPs such as Derek Blasberg, Nicky Hil-

ton, Julianne Moore, Olivia Munn, and Busy Philipps sipped champagne and rosé champagne as 7,000 spectators drank in the scene. Behati Prinsloo tossed the ball to commence the match, which ended with Team Black Watch stomping Team Veuve Clicquot with a score of 12–10.

On June 3, Annelise Peterson and Lucia Pieroni of Clé de Peau Beauté hosted a luncheon to benefit the Henry Street Settlement at the Refinery Rooftop. Heidi Manheimer of Shiseido Cosmetics discussed Clé de Peau—which translates from J U LY 2 0 1 4 1 2 3

French to English as “key to skin”—with guests, including Hayley Bloomingdale, Hannah Bronfman, Claire Distenfeld, Anh Duong, and Chloe Malle. For dessert, a “celestial cakelette” (which made diners see stars).

Later, InStyle fêted The Shoe Book by Nancy MacDonell (Assouline) at Saks Fifth Avenue with Propser Assouline, Ariel Foxman, and Marigay McKee. The event, which encircled 10022-SHOE, hosted Brian Atwood, Jean-Michael Cazabat, Nicholas Kirkwood, Misha Nonoo, and Kate Young. What was missing? Carrie Bradshaw and a pun about a Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choo.

On the 12th, the Wildlife Conservation Society honored Hil-

a Hinckley Company yacht, like those that will be at the Newport International Boat Show (inset).

lary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton as well as Diane Christensen at “An Elephant’s Tale” at the Central Park Zoo, which was attended by Bill Clinton and Bill de Blasio.

The after-party, deejayed by DJ Chelsea Leyland, hosted the who’s who of this column around the Sea Lion Pool—dressed in pops of color with a leopard print here and a zebra print there.

On the 17th, I ventured to Castle Hill Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, in anticipation of the Newport International Boat Show—which expects to draw 40,000 visitors in mid-September and includes a training program, “At The Helm.” In the evening, I attended a kick-off to the summer on the lawn of Castle Hill Inn, where guests feasted on oysters and a variety of ceviches accompanied by glasses of rosé. Spotted: Kiel James Patrick and Sarah Vickers, instagramming away. Like! u

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Castle Hill Inn, a Relais & Châteaux property at 590 Ocean Drive in Newport, Rhode Island (401.849.3800);

Hayley Bloomingdale and Kimberly Ovitz at a luncheon with Clé de Peau Beauté and the Henry Street Settlement.

Francesca Vuillemin at a party for The Shoe Book by Nancy MacDonnell (Assouline).

Annelise Peterson hosted a luncheon for the Henry Street Settlement.

Claire Distenfeld and Sarah Hoover supported the Henry Street Settlement at the Refinery Rooftop.

Maggie Cordish and Anna Pinheiro enjoyed a meal of arugula salad and slow-roasted Scottish salmon June 3.

Léa Assouline at 10022-SHOE at Saks Fifth Avenue attending an InStyle event.

Brian Atwood and InStyle’s Ariel Foxman fêted

Chloe Malle and Valerie Boster at a Clé

The Shoe Book by Nancy MacDonnell (Assouline).

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Luisa Robertson, Nina Haydock, Alexandra Segalas and Pauline Eichler at the Central Park Zoo.

Sisters Emily D’Antonio and Elizabeth D’Antonio at “An Elephant’s Tale.”

Lizzie Fraser and Ashley Platt at “An Elephant’s Tale” on June 12.

Catherine Wright, Samuel Leeds, Jennifer Cuminale and Buck Marshall on June 12.

Cody Baird and Cameron Bell dancing to music by DJ Chelsea Leyland at the Central Park Zoo.

Heather Lorence, Michael Nolov and Alexis Oppenheimer for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Chris Virtue and Kesher Fleming supported

Natasha Blodgett and Sebastian Pinto-Thomaz honored

the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton.

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Permele Doyle and Emily Hottensen at the Central Park Zoo on June 12.

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Clockwise from top left: The Head and the Heart performing at Fort Adams; Pete Seeger, who was known for his contributions to folk music in Newport and beyond; Seeger on the banjo.

PEACE & FOLK ESTABLISHED IN 1959, the Newport Folk Festival has proven an anchor on the scene in Newport, Rhode Island. This year, the event—which is scheduled for July 25–27 at Fort Adams— will treat audiences to performances by Ryan Adams, Conor Oberst, Jeff Tweedy, and Jack White, among others.

The Newport Folk Festival was founded by George Wein with backing by Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Albert Grossman, and Pete Seeger as a complement to the Newport Jazz Festival, established in 1954. Throughout its history, the event has introduced then up-and-comers such as Joan Baez 128 QUEST

(a guest of Bob Gibson in 1959) and Bob Dylan (a guest of Joan Baez four years later) as well as well-known names such as Howlin’ Wolf and Johnny Cash.

Today, the Newport Folk Festival accommodates 10,000 attendees plus those who arrive by sea to anchor their boats around the event, as is tradition. The audience enjoys the music—folk with influences of reggae and rock ‘n’ roll— against the sound of the waves. —Elizabeth Quinn Brown For more information, visit newportfolk.org.

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