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| Resort Life, Chapter XXXIX: January 1971 – September 1971 Palm Beach – Medway Plantation – Ireland – Austria – Venice – Northeast Harbor By Augustus Mayhew Imagine the pause at Palm Beach bridge tables and the hush along Worth Avenue in January 1971 when the news was whispered west of Paris that Coco Chanel had died at her Ritz Hotel apartment with her next runway show still not stitched. As the creator of the "little black dress" was being eulogized, fashion authority Charlotte Curtis wrote a lengthy dissertation on why women were saying "No!" to the Midi dress and "Yes!" to longer furs. According to Suzy, Kitty Miller was in Beverly Hills and packing for Palm Springs while the Tommy Tailers were flying to Barbados for a stay with John and Leslie Ordway. For Ellen Ordway, the new year was time for hosting visits from longtime Philadelphia friends and making a few more treks to Lion Country Safari before planning which Chanel suits to take on the Old Westbury Gardens Tour of Ireland, as Chanel-style ensembles appear to be the preferred daytime uniform for many of the ladies on the trip. So, study your Irish phrase book and bring your passport as NYSD channels the 1970s with our roving social correspondent. January 1971 Villa Bel Tramonto, Palm Beach |
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| March 1971 Palm Beach |
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| News from here and there "You see how the world is still impressed with a little display of power." |
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| Lion Country Safari Loxahatchee |
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| March 1971 Medway Plantation "I go to Medway for Gertrude's birthday party …" |
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| 26 March 1971 Ordway-Fackelmayer wedding |
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| April 1971 Palm Beach |
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| May 1971 Legendre-Mack wedding |
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| "The Baron and Baronne send word from Uruguay …" |
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| 17 May 1971 - 3 June 1971 Old Westbury Gardens Tour of Ireland |
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| 17 May 1971 JFK airport - 9:30 p.m. |
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| "We arrive in Ireland …" |
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| "Dinner with Desmond Guinness …" |
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| 27 May 1971 |
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| 31 May 1971 |
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| 4 June 1971 Ireland "We spend a few days with Peter and Bridget at Blackcastle House." |
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| 6 June 1971 Stuttgart "Gertrude and I fly to Germany …" |
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| 8 June 1971 |
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| 20 June 1971 Venice "We spend five days at the Hotel Cipriani." |
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| 25 June 1971 Northeast Harbor |
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| August 1971 "We picnic on Bartlett Island, Dogfish Point, Baker Island, and Little Cranberry Island." |
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Caneel Bay + Palm Beach + Down East October 1972. Permelia (Mrs. Joseph Verner) Pryor Reed, social pillar of the Jupiter Island Club and president of the Hobe Sound Company. |
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| Ellen Glendinning Ordway Photograph Collection courtesy of Gayle Abrams & Lucius Ordway Frazer. | Augustus Mayhew is the author of Lost in Wonderland: Reflections on Palm Beach |