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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Ninety-Two
November 16-23, 1916 On November 16, 1916, Kate Shippen Roosevelt was securing the shutters on her shingled farmhouse, packing trunks with freshly-aired linens and polished silver, stacking wooden...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Ninety-Three
November 23-30, 1916 Thanksgiving, 1916 found Kate Roosevelt breaking-in a kitchen maid. “New waitress, Ida Anderson, came. She has cleaned the silver and I sent the Roosevelt Family “flat silver” and...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Four
February 8-15, 1917 “To Colonial Dames meeting to arrange for war work. A lot of talk and nothing accomplished. Put up a flag in case of German-American war.” That was Kate Roosevelt’s comment on...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Five
February 15-22, 1917 Throughout Kate Shippen Roosevelt’s diary she many times mentioned taking her grandsons, Langdon, Jr. and Shippen Geer to parks, museums, exhibits, school and dentist...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Eleven
March 27-31, 1917 “In the evening to see Lilac Time at the Theater Republic at 207 West 42nd Street.” That was what was on the agenda for the last week of March, 1917 for Kate Shippen Roosevelt. The...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred Twenty One
June 7-14, 1917 The jolly month of June, 1917 found Kate Shippen Roosevelt in many places. From her small country farm in Hightstown, New Jersey to her ancestral home, “The Anchorage” located on the...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Twenty-Two
June 14-21, 1917 “Shopping at Altman’s.” That’s what Kate Roosevelt was doing on June 14, 1917. Altman’s was an exclusive department store located on Fifth Avenue just across the street from the...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Twenty Five
July 5-12, 1917 July 5, 1917, the day after celebrating a patriotic July Fourth visiting troops stationed at Camp Dix in Wrightstown bound for warfare in the trenches of France and doing a drive-by to...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Twenty-Seven
July 19-26, 1917 It was the middle of July 1917 and Kate Roosevelt was all over the map, figuratively and logistically. Since her diary entries from July 19 through July 26, 1917 span the globe, I...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Thirty-Eight
October 18-25, 1917 “Emlen Roosevelt here about possible sale of house.” That was Kate Roosevelt’s diary entry for October 19, 1917 and it made perfect sense to me. Just the other day she had...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Forty
If CNN, today’s premier cable news channel, had been around one hundred years ago, I am sure Kate Roosevelt would have been one of the most outspoken members on its panel of political pundits. Reading...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Five
February 15-22, 1917 Throughout Kate Shippen Roosevelt’s diary she many times mentioned taking her grandsons, Langdon, Jr. and Shippen Geer to parks, museums, exhibits, school and dentist...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Eleven
March 27-31, 1917 “In the evening to see Lilac Time at the Theater Republic at 207 West 42nd Street.” That was what was on the agenda for the last week of March, 1917 for Kate Shippen Roosevelt. The...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred Twenty One
June 7-14, 1917 The jolly month of June, 1917 found Kate Shippen Roosevelt in many places. From her small country farm in Hightstown, New Jersey to her ancestral home, “The Anchorage” located on the...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Twenty-Two
June 14-21, 1917 “Shopping at Altman’s.” That’s what Kate Roosevelt was doing on June 14, 1917. Altman’s was an exclusive department store located on Fifth Avenue just across the street from the...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Twenty Five
July 5-12, 1917 July 5, 1917, the day after celebrating a patriotic July Fourth visiting troops stationed at Camp Dix in Wrightstown bound for warfare in the trenches of France and doing a drive-by to...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Twenty-Seven
July 19-26, 1917 It was the middle of July 1917 and Kate Roosevelt was all over the map, figuratively and logistically. Since her diary entries from July 19 through July 26, 1917 span the globe, I...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Thirty-Eight
October 18-25, 1917 “Emlen Roosevelt here about possible sale of house.” That was Kate Roosevelt’s diary entry for October 19, 1917 and it made perfect sense to me. Just the other day she had...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Forty
If CNN, today’s premier cable news channel, had been around one hundred years ago, I am sure Kate Roosevelt would have been one of the most outspoken members on its panel of political pundits. Reading...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week One Hundred and Forty-Six
December 14-21, 1917 Christmas was just around the corner for Kate Roosevelt and her New York City social circle, but utmost on their minds during the holiday season of 1917 was what was going on in...
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