Archive – Restoring the Suite

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    The House That E-bay Built

    …in the end, The FDR Suite is in fact the house that E-bay built.

  • Here, There and Back Again: A Tale of A Sign

    A couple months ago, I received a call from a very courteous gentlemen in Santa Fe, inquiring whether or not I might want to buy an old, wooden sign. But…

  • Harvard-Yale, and A Bit of the Past Returned

    First of all, on behalf of Masters Palfrey and the Foundation, it was wonderful to greet the 250 plus of you who returned to Adams after the game. I am…

  • Ah, The Fly at Last! Or, There and Back Again, A Tale of Retraction

    A while back one of our Adams alums, Rick Porteus ’78, who also happens to be the Vice President of the Fly Club Board of Directors, had written to me…

  • The Widow

    “Having a good time was of major importance in those days at Harvard. Customary procedure was to study for ten days with a tutor before an examination and never open…

  • A Missing Place…Revisited

    Wow! Of all the topics we’ve covered recently, my previous post certainly caught everyone’s attention, and rightly so. Thanks to so many of you who commented below or wrote me…