Enter the Buccaneers!

by Linda Bennett Pennell

Edith Wharton, the novelist and chronicler of Gilded Age manners, grew up among the elite of old New York and knew them well. She also knew the daughters of those déclassé new money… Continue reading →

Exiled South by Harriet Cannon

by Linda Bennett Pennell

Researching one’s roots has become an American obsession. Who isn’t hooked on a search for exciting, even famous ancestors? But digging deeper as Lizbeth Gordon does in Exiled south while hunting answers in… Continue reading →