NYC Residences Of Georgia O'Keeffe And Patricia Highsmith Mapped As LGBT Historic Sites
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, celebrated for her modernist paintings of flowers, and Patricia Highsmith, the prolific writer best known for such works as Strangers on a Train (1950) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), have been added to New York City's LGBT historical narrative. This month, the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project published two new entries to its website, a compendium of extant sites in all five boroughs where LGBT history has occurred and influenced our city and our nation's culture.
BEVERLY HILLS: The First 100 Years is Released
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ BEVERLY HILLS: THE FIRST 100 YEARS is a comprehensive, sumptuously illustrated history of the legendary city, it's houses, parks, and gardens, from it's founding to today. Published to coincide with the city's Centennial, BEVERLY HILLS: THE FIRST 100 YEARS depicts a city that has lived within our collective imagination as a paradise. The volume is authored by Robert S. Anderson, the grandson and great-grandson of the founders of the Beverly Hills Hotel, whose roots run deep. As a well-connected Beverly Hills native, Anderson has been granted unprecedented access to both public and private collections of memorabilia and historic records. Anderson presents Beverly Hills in unprecedented fashion, and with an eye toward the whole picture that will make this the definitive book on the famous city.