Tag: Lathrop Brown

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  Extra, Extra! John the Orangeman, Revealed!

  Without fail, whenever I give a tour of the FDR Suite, someone asks me who’s that bearded man with dancing eyes, merrily peering out from the frame on the mantle…

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  FDR Suite Video Tour

  I put together this short tour from several hours of footage we shot this week while testing the cameras and lighting for the New Fireside Chats. There’s many a photographic…

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  Brimfield Bounty

  So I’ve just returned from three delightful afternoons wandering the Brimfield Antiques Fair. For those of you not familiar with this thrice-annual event, Brimfield is the nation’s largest antiques fair,…

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  Opulence

  For those of you who enjoy time travel stories, one of the very best is Time and Again (1970) by Jack Finney. I won’t bore you with a detailed synopsis;…

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  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…

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  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…