Scurvy Oaks

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If you like American furniture, neoclassical architecture, 18th and 19th century portraits, old churches, old cars, and occasional pieces of opinion, this is the place for you. “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.” ― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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‘Osterville Captain’s House.’ Patrick Ahearn Architect, Boston, MA. Eric Roth photo.

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serpentinesheldonserpentine

When giants walked among us.

Ingalls Rink, Yale. Eero Saarinen, architect nonpareil.

scurvyoaks

My younger daughter is currently at Yale summer school, in an impressive Saarinen dorm (the tower at Morse College), which is very good architecture but lacks air conditioning. She is not very comfortable in this heat.

fatchance

"Old men ought to be explorers”

A fragment from the poem "East Coker" by T. S. Eliot, in Four Quartets, 1940/1943.

scurvyoaks

I actually have ancestors from East Coker, who picked up and went to Massachusetts rather early on . . .

culturaloffering

“I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.”

William F. Buckley, Jr.

midatlanticwasp

Always reblog this quote. Heartily agree with this “program.”

golftangohotel

James Madison, by Gilbert Stuart in 1804

"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them."

—James Madison, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788

serpentinesheldonserpentine

Is there no virtue among us?

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theinternetarchive

'peregrine falcons,' oil on canvas, john james audubon, 1827.

artamir

Cathédrale de Chartres, détail du portail central du Portail Nord. Isaïe, Jérémie, Siméon, saint Jean le baptiste, saint Pierre.  Copyright - Artamir, septembre 2015.

serpentinesheldonserpentine

I came across a cache of old photos

And invitations to teenage parties

"Dress in white, " one said with quotations

From someone's wife, a famous writer

In the 1920s

tradlads

The signature tie beloved by all.

pamwmsn

tumblr.com/tail-feathers "Yankee Doodle" At the historic Nassau Inn in Princeton, NJ, in the Yankee Doodle Tap Room. The original 13 foot Norman Rockwell mural behind the bar. He painted it in 1937 and they say it took him nine months to finish

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thenewmanhattanite

Author W. Somerset Maugham (2R) playing bridge w. 3 unident. friends while summering on Cape Cod. 1944.

thesorrowsofgin

The Sorrows of Gin.

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no1248

Winnetka

Stuart

fragrantblossoms

Bayard, Hippolyte: Entrance to Mr. Mingant's Horse Shop, 1845-1848.

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South Carolina ETV and Public Radio (SCETV) will premiere The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution on July 2 at 8 p.m. on ETV.

portrait-paintings

The Family of Henry Langford Brown

Artist: Richard Augustus Clack (British, 1801-1880)

Date: 1843-1844

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England

Description

Henry Langford Brown (1802-1859) was the owner of estates at Combsatchfield, Kingskerswell and Bradninch, Devon. He married his wife, Mary (nee Steptoe) in 1830. Clack’s reputation in Exeter was considerable and if not for ill health he would undoubtedly have enjoyed greater notoriety beyond his home county. This portrait was donated by a family descendant.

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