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• Are You a Critic?

  

  “Reader, I think it proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress through this whole history as often as I see occasion; of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic whatever. And here I must desire all those critics to mind their own business,…

  Adrienne Morris

  July 12, 2017

  Adrienne Morris, Uncategorized

  Books, casinos, Critics, ellen, golden retriever, Life, Vacation

• The Shadows We Leave

  What a strange mix of altruistic and puritanical compulsion. Spencer Trask made his fortune on Wall Street betting on the future–the future of transportation (railroads), news (he saved the New York Times from bankruptcy) and light (he invested heavily in Thomas Edison’s works). Yet the idea of gamblers roaming the streets of Saratoga Springs in…

  Adrienne Morris

  September 24, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, Men, United States History

  19th century mansion, 2014 Yaddo Tour, Art, casinos, Gambling, Gilded Age, life and death, philanthropic rich people, Robber Barons, sin, Spencer Trask, Yaddo