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"Real Pearls and Darned Stockings" consists of a series of amusing, revealing vignettes relating to the inexorable changing of The Old Guard in the Roosevelt/Livingston Hudson Valley. During the last half of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton's marvelous world of elegant society, good and proper manners, indoor swimming pools, private golf clubs -- real pearls and darned stockings -- became transformed by an upwardly mobile generation, the environmentally aware New Guard.

Adventures of a Writer's Wife is a collection of articles by Allene Hatch written for The Barrytown Explorer, a Hudson Valley newspaper published by the late Chanler Chapman. He was one of the "Mad Chanlers" in Lately Thomas's Pride of Lions. It was he, not her biographer/historian husband Alden Hatch, who was responsible for her writing career by providing endless encouragement plus a ready market for her amusing stories of life among such notabbles as President Eisenhower, Bucky Fuller, HRH Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, among many others. It is a lovely peek...

Once considered unpublishable in the US (but warmly received in The Netherlands and Germany) "Menopause Can Be Fun" is a warm and encouraging guide for anyone, female or male, approaching The Golden Age. With a bit of well pointed humor and a lot of facts, this book can be a companion for those whose bodies are entering "second puberty."

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