Museum Event & Experience
In the early 1900's, Henry Flagler built a 75-room, 100,000 square-foot home that was used as a Palm Beach winter retreat for his family. Gatherings at the residence -- known as Whitehall -- were an establishing force of the Palm Beach season for wealthy families during the Gilded Age. Flagler died roughly 100 years ago, and subsequent years saw the residence and grounds become a National Historic Landmark and achieve consistent support through the fund development of the Whitehall Society, an organization created to cultivate fiscal support and ensure sufficient patronage to preserve Whitehall. One of the main areas of focus for the Whitehall Society is the support of creative educational programs for children. For instance, in March 2014, the Whitehall Society will host a Mad Hatter's Tea at which children and their parents will craft festive hats and practice table etiquette at a Gilded Age styled lunch in the Cafe de Beaux-Arts housed in the Flagler Kenan Pavilion on the Museum grounds. This upcoming event is a bit different than most of the Whitehall Society fund-raisers in that it children are primary participants and the focus of the event. The event that I attended was definitely designed for adult connoisseurs of the arts.
November 9, 2013, at the customary time before dinner, the Whitehall Society hosted a cocktail party designed to celebrate the tradition of cocktails -- and...
International Regulation of Tourism in Antarctica Since the mid-1980s, Antarctica has been an increasingly popular tourist destination, despite the relative danger of visiting the largest, least explored -- and arguably least understood -- continent on earth. Beginning with the 1959 treaty establishing Antarctica as an international zone free of claims of sovereignty by nation's that had been instrumental in establishing research stations there, there has been almost constant negotiation about how
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