Carl is joined by noted Berkshire historian, author and Lenox native, Cornelia Brooke Gilder for this special show which delves into the artistic and literary life of the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts as well as its role as a Gilded Age summer enclave. From the early 19th century the lush, green landscape of the Berkshire mountain inspired writers… Continue reading Episode #86: Great Estates of the Berkshires
Topic: Travel & Country Estates
Episode #85: The Adirondacks and Great Camp Sagamore: Retreating to Nature in the Gilded Age
Historian and scholar Connor Williams joins Carl for this look at the Gilded Age retreat of the Adirondacks. Several Gilded Age families came here despite the dusty two-day journey in an attempt to escape the city and recharge in nature. The Gilded Age saw the rise of the “great camps” extensive properties owned by families such as the Vanderbilts… Continue reading Episode #85: The Adirondacks and Great Camp Sagamore: Retreating to Nature in the Gilded Age
Episode #78: The Edwardian Country House: Elegance and Eccentricity
Join Carl and returning listener favorite British country house historian Curt DiCamillo for a look into the world of the Edwardian country house. Audiences became fascinated by this world through the blockbuster Julian Fellowes series “Downton Abbey” and his earlier film “Gosford Park” with its colliding worlds of upstairs and downstairs and the interlocking social dramas. Curt unveils more of this fascinating period in British… Continue reading Episode #78: The Edwardian Country House: Elegance and Eccentricity
Episode #66: Inside Newport: Objects and Observations with Ulysses Dietz
Join The Gilded Gentleman and curator and historian Ulysses Dietz for a unique, in-depth look at the inside world of Newport in the GIdled Age. Ulysses Dietz, noted curator, author and historian is the great-great grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant. In this unique and very special show, Ulysses takes us behind the doors of several of Newport’s great mansions to… Continue reading Episode #66: Inside Newport: Objects and Observations with Ulysses Dietz
Episode #56: Venetian Days: Henry James and Friends on the Grand Canal
A look at Venice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a view into a unique community of artists and writers that came to be known as the “Barbaro Circle” and which included the great American-born novelist Henry James. Venice by the end of the 19th century had lost much of the glory it once had known.… Continue reading Episode #56: Venetian Days: Henry James and Friends on the Grand Canal
Episode #55: Monaco’s First American Princess (ENCORE)
As we continue our visit to the Riviera in the Belle Epoque, The Gilded Gentleman revisits one of our classic episodes to tell the little-known story of an American-born European princess. Many people think that Grace Kelly became the first American princess of Monaco when she married Prince Rainier in 1956. The truth however is that decades before in the glittering years of… Continue reading Episode #55: Monaco’s First American Princess (ENCORE)
Episode #54: The French Riviera: Tales of Royals, Rascals and Rothschilds
A glittering, glamorous look at the history of the French Riviera and its height in the years of the Belle Epoque — where not everything was always quite as it seemed. Originally popular as a warm weather destination for convalescing British aristocrats, the rocky, dramatically beautiful eastern coastline of southern France, the Riviera and its resorts of… Continue reading Episode #54: The French Riviera: Tales of Royals, Rascals and Rothschilds
Episode #53: In the Good Old Summertime: Where the Gilded Age Played
Join returning guest, Esther Crain, author and creator of Ephemeral New York for a look at how New Yorkers stayed cool on summer days in the Gilded Age. As New York continued its march up the island of Manhattan, there were few places where New Yorkers that couldn’t escape to Newport could find somewhere to relax, play, stroll, and find some… Continue reading Episode #53: In the Good Old Summertime: Where the Gilded Age Played
Episode #43: Chasing the Gold: A Gilded Age Tour Up Manhattan
A fascinating tour through over 100 years of New York history showing how the Gilded Age developed and evolved from an architectural and urban planning point of view. Guest historian and tour guide Keith Taillon takes listeners on a journey explaining how key Gilded Age neighborhoods became established and grew. Some tour guides and historians have said that to… Continue reading Episode #43: Chasing the Gold: A Gilded Age Tour Up Manhattan
Episode #41: Sweeney Todd’s Victorian London and a Chat with Broadway’s Sarah Rice
A look at the historical origins of the tale of Sweeney Todd and a very special conversation with Sarah Rice who starred in the original 1979 production of the Sondheim musical in the role of Johanna. As the famed “demon barber of Fleet Street” gets ready to flash his razor and do his deeds once again in a… Continue reading Episode #41: Sweeney Todd’s Victorian London and a Chat with Broadway’s Sarah Rice