Real Pearls and Darned Stockings: Tales of the Hudson Valley

"Real Pearls and Darned Stockings" consists of a series of amusing, revealing vignettes relating to the inexorable changing of The Old Guard in the Roosevelt/Livingston Hudson Valley. During the last half of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton's marvelous world of elegant society, good and proper manners, indoor swimming pools, private golf clubs -- real pearls and darned stockings -- became transformed by an upwardly mobile generation, the environmentally aware New Guard.

• | Author: Allene G. Hatch
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 12, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 214 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1452827222
• | ISBN-13: 9781452827223