Word: newporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago, going away for the summer was a privilege of the rich, and the oh-so-rich at that. Baedeker's United States, published in 1909, rated Bar Harbor and Newport as the two top resorts, and after that the Grand Tour was only a question of whether one preferred the Berkshires to Saratoga, White Sulphur to Hot Springs, or how long to remain at Tuxedo Park. Because the rich were so few, they clustered together in tight little colonies. Their "cottages" were turreted mansions, marble palaces and crenelated castles; they entertained only each other. Their summer colonies were...
...1880s, the Vanderbilts, Astors and Oelrichses, with gold-plated silverware and shiploads of newly immigrated servants, invaded the quiet Rhode Island village of Newport, threw up enormous 50-room houses that rivaled European chateaux in size if not in taste. As more nouveaux riches arrived, Bailey's Beach became the playground for the new millionaires, private docks gave shelter to large yachts during the summer, and ladies sipped champagne under parasols while watching their white-flanneled husbands play tennis on grass courts...
...caterers rather than servants, but third-and fourth-generation scions still keep the banners flying high. On a sunny day at Bailey's Beach, 15 Cushings can be seen at one time, flanked by Drexels, Auchin-closses and Van Alens. Neither high taxes, lack of servants, nor the Newport Jazz Festival can drive them out from behind their wrought-iron gates and brick walls...
...Newport's social bastions still are the Spouting Rock Beach Association, which owns famed Bailey's Beach, and the Newport Reading Room, where men of the summer colony still gather in the afternoon for drinks, backgammon or boccie. To gain membership in any of these hallowed institutions is every bit as difficult as it was to be accepted in Newport back in the days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport...
...both Hamptons the ocean influences everything. Its pounding surf has created an unbroken beach of pure, soft, white sand. Moisture from the ocean causes a heavy dew at night so that golf courses rarely need water on their fairways. In general, the Hamptons are as rigidly socially conscious as Newport, and when snobbery has reared its gelid head it has sometimes been intensified by the rivalry between the two communities. For years, Southampton claimed a social edge. It had tighter restrictions on who could buy property in the community, and it barred Jews and looked askance at Catholics. East Hampton...