Deep Dive: The Nickersons
The Young Mr. and Mrs. Nickerson: A Brief History
“For the last five years Mr. Nickerson has been considered one of the choice fish in the social swim,” wrote a New York Telegraph correspondent, “and all sorts of bait have been thrown at him.”
Party Like It’s 1888
We are so inspired by the image of Robert Redford as the lovelorn Jay Gatsby, standing on a Newport mansion’s balcony—an image that combines a character of the Lost Generation with the architecture of the Gilded Age—that we decided to show the 1974 film in our own Gilded Age mansion as the first of our new Mix and Mingle at the Movies program series.
[You Asked] What Was Mrs. Nickerson Like?
Today’s blog is part of an occasional series dedicated to answering visitors’ questions.