For several years, Sharon Hazard has been taking us inside New York’s Gilded Age as detailed in the pages of Kate Shippen Roosevelt’s diary. Kate counted two  presidents amo… Read More

January 1-7, 1919 The diary that this blog has been based on was kept faithfully through the years 1912 and into 1919 by Kate Shippen Roosevelt. As I began reading through her writings for t… Read More

December 20-29, 1917 It was December 20, 1917 and Kate Roosevelt made the rounds in Manhattan in preparation for Christmas, just five days away. But before she did any shopping or decoratin… Read More