The East Neversink River valley estate we've owned since the mid-1970s--which we call "the Straus Estate" or "Straus House"--was in a sense the result of the convergence of two families through marriages -- the Straus family and the Guggenheim family. Yes, the latter is really the family that also gave us the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as modernist art-acquiring adventuress Peggy Guggenheim. On the Straus side we get several generations of Rogers who formed and sustained Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishers. The image above is a piece of a large New York Times article from 1914 about the coming together of the two establishment clans. Here is a PDF of the whole original article.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
where did "Straus" come from?
The East Neversink River valley estate we've owned since the mid-1970s--which we call "the Straus Estate" or "Straus House"--was in a sense the result of the convergence of two families through marriages -- the Straus family and the Guggenheim family. Yes, the latter is really the family that also gave us the Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as modernist art-acquiring adventuress Peggy Guggenheim. On the Straus side we get several generations of Rogers who formed and sustained Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishers. The image above is a piece of a large New York Times article from 1914 about the coming together of the two establishment clans. Here is a PDF of the whole original article.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
one-room schoolhouses
Andy Hutner, staff alumnus, has been conducting studies and tours of the old one-room schoolhouses around Frost Valley. Below is a preliminary report he's made on his findings.
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