When Carolyn Everett, an appraiser of American furniture at Christie's auction house, fails to pass on information concerning an ownership claim on a Hugh Finlay table, her career and reputation are in shambles. She retreats to her hometown, Newport, RI, where she is quickly swept up in a new re...
It was tradition to decorate the hall for birthdays, the labor done by the students who shared a table with the honoree. The decorations, this time in honor of Hortense Lewis’s birthday, would stay up for lunch and dinner, too, and a party was planned in Caroline and Belle’s wing of the senior ha...
Most of the time, the higher-ups only talked to you if you had done something wrong, or as in Nicholas’s case, advising you to seek employment elsewhere. You were expected to put your nose to the grindstone and never come up for air, let alone compliments and praise. But w...