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Cheever grew up in the Greater Boston shore town of Quincy. His father was a traveling shoe salesman successful enough for a while to keep his family in middling Yankee splendor - a big house, good schools for John and his older brother Fred. But by the mid-1920s, as Cheever reached his teens, the shoe business was tanking, and his father was increasingly drunk and adrift. To make ends meet, his mother opened a gift shop that Cheever would describe as "an abysmal humiliation," at least for him. The big house would be lost anyway; his mother would shed...
Every house is idiosyncratic. The most stately is the five-bedroom Colonial House built by Arabian goldsmiths in the 1920s. The sexiest is the two-bedroom Penang House with a wooden bathtub parked in the living room. The most compelling is the richly decorated, century-old Chinese farmhouse overlooking the mountains and Temple Tree's 110-ft. (33.5 m) pool. There are also five "estate rooms," built into a 1940s longhouse from a rubber plantation in Ipoh. It used to house Indian workers, but not, one surmises, in the same style that guests now enjoy...
...1920s Eurasian house that once stood on Penang's York Road is the location of the resort's reception and restaurant. You can also book yoga and culinary classes here (McMurtrie is a great cook and her desserts are legendary). And if you need to escape this leafy idyll for a while, your cat will walk you to reception, where you can charter one of McMurtrie's yachts for a sunset cruise...
...behind-the-scenes role, their use of ever-developing technologies to preserve the works of the past are integral to the creation and maintenance of Harvard’s world-renowned literary and artistic collections.DON’T GO, ROTHKOSince it’s introduction in the 1920s, art conservation at Harvard has come a long way, and it has helped damaged pieces of art extend their display shelf lifetimes. Edward Waldo Forbes (Class of 1895), who served as the second director of the Fogg from 1909 to 1944, worked laboriously to create and expand the Center for Conservation...
...Some theories are even more inventive. In the 1920s, a Brit named Alfred Watkins attempted to connect Stonehenge with other sites in England, arguing that when taken together, they served as landmarks to navigate through the island once dense, now vanished, ancient forest. He called these routes "ley lines" and the theory developed a sizable following, though trained archaeologists were dubious about this amateur's theory. Another hypothesis is that the configuration is meant to resemble a giant vulva, as a means of tribute to an ancient fertility god. Others argue that Stonehenge was a place of ancient healing...