Croquet, anyone? Tournament brings neighborhood together (Marblehead Reporter)Imagine an event that brings your entire family, willingly, out of doors to meet with their neighbors, whether elderly or young, which is entirely unplugged and harks back to days gone by. AUDIO SLIDESHOW: 30th Annual Edgemere Croquet Tournament
'Gossip Girl' recap: Summer lovin' (Entertainment Weekly)By Tim Stack From Nate and Serena to Blair and the new guy, fake relationships are all the rage as the Upper East Siders finish their summer of sex and tears with a Hamptons white party, but somehow the real couples still find each other
Picnic, painting, old-fashioned games part of the fun planned (Daily Herald)Step back to a simpler time, to the early 1900s, when Model T Fords and high wheel bicycles ruled the road, and families played games of Checkers, tiddlywinks and croquet together.
The Berkshires' Gilded Age (Boston Globe)Over the later decades of the 19th century some of the country's wealthiest families took up summer residence in the Berkshires. Society people from Boston and New York and literary and artistic luminaries were drawn to the clear mountain air and pristine hills, valleys and lakes. Equally alluring was that the area offered a less formal setting than Newport.
