The Kennedy’s don’t do any UPKEEP on their houses from what I’ve seen.
Their clan headquarters may have been in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, but the true center of the Kennedy political dynasty in the Fifties and Sixties was Hickory Hill, the Virginia home of Robert and Ethel Kennedy. It was a “wild, informal mixture of a children’s playground, upbeat discotheque, and a humming political headquarters,” described one regular visitor. Invitations to Hickory Hill were highly coveted, and no place better expressed the personality of its owners.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rfk/peopleevents/e_hickoryhill.html
Where do you think the term “shanty Irish” came from?
I remember when Jackie Kennedy passed away, her apartment in NYC was gutted by the buyer because it had never been updated.