This web site is a rich feast. I think his parents must have paid the bills. Very disappointing for them as well. I mean: The Man won't be able to play golf.

Appointment in Sammara usually hits the top 25 lists of great novels of the 20th century. From The Terrace spanning the first 50 years of the century usually makes the top 100. I think the latter should be in the top 10. It is a long book. Many people think the stories are too coarse. I think they reflect the way people think about life, sex, etc. the late 60's work onward is worthless.
    "Afternoon Waltz" I think the male character graduated from Wesleyan so I like that. There was another one about a teenage boy that has its denounment at a country club tea dance in the 1920s. what was that one called. I'll have to steal one of the books back.
     Gibbsville is Pottsville. PA. In the 1920s one of the wealthiest communities in the country. Not so today. the original "Gibbsville" Club burned down in the 1970s. There still is a Pottsville Club. I'll have to visit it one day. The country club still exists. It's founding referred to in From The Terrace. And the setting for a crucial scene in Appointment in Sammara. (also the setting for a scene from From The Terrace where two fictional characters meet up by accident just before that crucial scene in Sammara that was written 25 years before Terrace).
      Oh, the villainous Doctor in Butterfield 8 also was a Wesleyan grad. hmmmmm.
     Just by way of geographical references: One of Scott Fitgerald's stories featured a Yale dance in the ballroom of the New Haven Lawn Club. the Club still exisits. And they still have some dances there. An elegant Art Deco room. He also mentioned the dining room of the Taft Hotel. You can still go there today. Called something else. But still looks pretty much the same.

Last edited by tmc22 (2009-09-23 19:04:12)

Another Wesleyan man here.

Well, there we have it, Thin Repp.

T3B, you look disturbingly convincing as an Ivy wastrel peddling dope.

Great pics. See if there has to be an illustration of Heavy Ivy, i'd choose these. Not prissy or posy. A little rough round the edges. No half mast duds or old school ties. Tough.