Re: Who are you Robert McGraw?
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Who are you Robert McGraw?
Patricia Enrico 11/06/03
Hi Patricia, I check in the Vanderbilt page every now and then just to see what's new.Robert is a wealth of information.When I read your post about you going to Newport and being obsessed with the Vanderbilts I had to double check the name to make sure it wasn't a post I had written. Ha. I too am a Vanderbilt junkie.I don't know why, it's strange, huh?I read all I can, go to Newport, I've been to Blenheim in England where Consuelo lived.I research all the time.Even record my findings.Why?I don't know.But I love it!I am writing a romance book and the gilded age is my favorite time frame and I find the Vanderbilts fascinating.I guess researching them inspires me, is the only thing I can think of.I have contacted the Biltmore house and Blenheim, also David Columbia with the New York society page and all have been helpful in answering my questions.I got a book that was out of print thru amazon.com called Consuelo and it chronicles Consuelo's life all the way.You know All that Glitters ended in her return to America.It's an interesting read.I got Fortune's children for Christmas.I had read it before but I had to have my own copy.And yet again, I couldn't put it down.I am planning a trip to the Biltmore in March.Have you been there?It's wonderful.Maybe I'll get even more inspired.So see you are not the only one with the Vanderbilt affliction.It's nice to know there are more of us out there.Let's keep in touch. Shelley Harris P.S. My mother and I were at Belcourt Castle in Newport about 2 years ago and we passed the portrait of the Tinney family while on the guided tour. The owners.My mother and I stood at the bottom of the staircase and a long haired man came down and smiled at us and said hello and we moved to let him pass.Then my mother and I looked at each other and realized he was the man in the portrait. Cool, huh?
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