‘A DISCHARGED SERVANT’
This short, pudgy, balding Southerner, a “dedicated social climber of comical determination,” latched onto “the Mrs. Astor” to make himself the arbiter of high society.
William Bryk and his wife, Mimi Kramer, former theatre critic for The New Yorker, live in Antrim, New Hampshire with their four cats and far too many books in a house built in 1826. He has written for New York Press, The New York Sun, The Daily Beast, and Splice Today, and other publications. A former New York City employee, since moving to New Hampshire he has also practiced law, served on town boards, and enjoyed learning to ride horses.
‘Fear, and be Slain’
The “dashing man of action” who led his own troops into battle in a much earlier, not so-long-ago era.
Bull’s Head Tavern
Plans for a new hotel in New York have been halted by the discovery that the building site may be the original location of the famed Bull’s Head Tavern, a bar Washington visited.