2019 Fall Lecture Series: Adventures in Elegance
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2019 Fall Lecture Series: Adventures in Elegance
Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
Luke Barr, Author and Journalist
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Rosecliff / 6 PM
Members $10 / General Public $15
In 1889, the Swiss hotelier and tastemaker, César Ritz, arrived at the Savoy Hotel in London. He had come to meet with Richard D'Oyly Carte, the theatrical impresario behind Gilbert & Sullivan's comic operas, who had now set his sights on a new project: to create the best hotel in the world. In short order D'Oyly Carte convinced Ritz to move to London along with his team, which included Auguste Escoffier, the celebrated French chef de cuisine known for his highly creative, original dishes. The result was a hotel and restaurant unlike any other that was run in mysterious, extravagant, and sometimes scandalous ways. In their collaboration at what became London’s celebrated Savoy Hotel, they hosted a loyal clientele that included eccentrics, celebrities, aristocrats, and the nouveau riche, and in the process created a hospitality and culinary legend.
Luke Barr is the author of the New York Times bestselling Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste, as well as 2018’s critically acclaimed Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, the Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class, which has already won several awards. He was previously the features editor at Travel + Leisure magazine. A grandnephew of M.F.K. Fisher, he grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Switzerland. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow, Author and Journalist
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Rosecliff /6 PM
Members $10 / General Public $15
From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the hotel's largest penthouse, the eighteen-story white marble edifice at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street has radiated wealth and luxury. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, this is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century. Award-winning journalist Julie Satow pulls back the curtain on a historic New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, and opportunity and tragedy.
Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist who has covered real estate in New York City for more than a decade. A regular contributor to the New York Times, her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, the New York Post, HuffPost, and elsewhere.
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Food in the American Gilded Age
Dr. Helen Zoe Veit, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Rosecliff / 6 PM
Members $10 / General Public $15
Food was incredibly diverse in post–Civil War America. The era was one of gross income inequality, with an exploding immigrant population, rapidly changing agricultural, manufacturing, and transportation technologies, and urban growth on an unprecedented scale. Differences in diet reflected the deep disparities between upper and lower classes, as well as the expansion of a flourishing middle class. A wide range of Gilded Age sources—from period cookbooks to advice manuals to dietary studies— reveal the depth of the culinary divide between classes and regions at a time when technology and industrialization were transforming how and what people ate.
Dr. Helen Zoe Veit is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She specializes in American history in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the history of food and nutrition. She is the author of Modern Food, Moral Food: Self-Control, Science, and the Rise of Modern American Eating in the Early Twentieth Century, and is also the General Editor of the American Food in History series.
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Dr. Renee Somers, Assistant Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, MA
Saturday, October 19, 2019
Isaac Bell House / 10-11:30 AM
Shirley Jackson’s classic horror story, The Haunting of Hill House, is the perfect spooky seasonal read, and has been frightening readers since 1959. Find out why this Fall at Books@Bell!
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GREEN ANIMALS FALL WORKSHOPS
Dahlias with Dan
Dan Christina, Green Animals Chief Horticulturalist
Saturday, September 28, 2018?Green Animals Topiary Garden / 10:30 AM – Noon
Free with garden admission, space limited, advance registration required
Green Animals is home to much more than fanciful topiaries. In fact, dahlias have been an important part of the garden since its early days. Learn from Chief Horticulturist Dan Christina all the tips and tricks that make growing dahlias an obsession for so many gardeners.
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Pumpkin Decorating at Green Animals
Abigail Stewart, PSNC Education and Interpretation Manager
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Green Animals Topiary Garden / 10 AM - Noon
Materials fee $15, space limited, advance registration required
Enjoy the best of autumn at Green Animals Topiary Garden with a garden walk and pumpkin decorating! We'll decorate our pumpkins with colorful leaves and greens that you will collect on our garden walk. Open to families of all ages.
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SAVE THE DATE!
The Newport Symposium : Movers, Shakers, & Makers
Thursday, April 16 – Saturday April 18, 2020
Opening Reception and Lecture at Rosecliff
Daily Programs at the Newport Marriott and PSNC sites
Gala Dinner on Saturday Night (by separate ticket)
Registration opens Fall 2019
Upcoming Exhibition at Rosecliff
TIFFANY GLASS: PAINTING WITH COLOR AND LIGHT
December 8, 2019 - March 20, 2020
Exhibition Opening Lecture and Reception
Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light
Lindsy R. Parrott, Executive Director and Curator, The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass
Sunday, December 8, 2019
Rosecliff / 4 PM Lecture / 5 PM Reception
Members $10 / General Public $15
As a painter, Louis Comfort Tiffany was captivated by the interplay of light and color, and this fascination found its most spectacular expression in his glass “paintings.” Through the medium of opalescent glass, Tiffany could actually capture light in color and manipulate it to achieve impressionistic effects. Learn how Tiffany Studios created leaded-glass windows and lampshades in vibrant colors and richly varied patterns, textures, and opacities.
Lindsy Parrott is the Executive Director and Curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass. During her fifteen year tenure at The Neustadt, she has conducted ground breaking research on the manufacture and use of Tiffany's opalescent flat glass, which has been published in numerous journal articles and exhibition catalogues, and has curated traveling exhibitions exploring a wide variety of Tiffany topics. She is a member of numerous professional glass and decorative arts organizations, including the Art Glass Forum/ New York (President), the National American Glass Club (Board of Directors), Victorian Society New York, and American Glass Guild. In 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the Corning Museum of Glass. She has written and lectured extensively on all aspects of Tiffany's career.