Tag: The Breakers

• The Gilded Age Excess

  

  Newport Adventures After successfully defending my thesis, I decided the proper way to celebrate academic triumph was exploring how the obscenely wealthy lived during the Gilded Age. Because nothing says “I conquered graduate school” quite like touring 70-room “summer cottages,” right? Ferry Terminal Panic After the rental car confusion the night before (apparently my carefully…

  GreyValley

  July 13, 2025

  New York & New England, North America

  #history, #travel, Gilded Age, Rhode Island, The Breakers, The Elms