The one thing I really, really adore about the Edwardian era is that it is the age of the automobile. It’s only fairly recently that I discovered a car museum in my neck of the woods, and I jumped at the chance to visit during Museum Day. Stationed beside the building were a bevy of …
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The Museum of the City of New York Presents: Gilded New York
From the Press Release… Museum of the City of New York Opens Tiffany & Co. Foundation Gallery and Gilded New York, the inaugural Exhibition Exhibition showcases beautiful design objects from New York’s Gilded Age as visual markers of the city’s metamorphosis into cultural capital On November 13, the Museum of the City of New York …
Rhode Island exhibit focuses on Newport’s ties to tennis
More than a century before Roger Federer and Andre Agassi faced off in the U.S Open tennis finals in New York, players were donning fancier attire and taking to the courts of Newport to compete in championship matches. The earliest incarnation of the tournament, then known as the U.S. National Championships, began in Newport in …