I didn’t interpret your comment that way. Not at all.
Just pointing out that Farmington was where the debs went, not Long Island.
And yes, the story is malicious. The question is, who will benefit from this gossip. Poor Truman Capote certainly didn’t.
Isn’t it just nasty? And just about everyone dead.
I was mixing images, but don’t people know a smear when they see one? Or does it take experience with vicious gum smacking suburban ‘competitive’ young women?
Plus there was the rule, is it Irish? Never speak ill of the dead. And it was heeded.
How is anyone supposed to set the record straight on this?
And what if its a bit true, who should care? And it’s morphed into today’s culture. But people did not fool around back then the way they do now. Certainly respectfully married women did not. There was no birth control no widespread ... Ih well. They just didn’t Men did- like JFK. And there were sleazy women.
It’s like when Clinton ( I think I just assumed it came from him) got someone to do a tell all on Jefferson. It favored Clinton, announcing tgat it was precedented to have illicit sex in the Oval Office while on duty getting paid by the American people who I’m thinking we’re not intent on paying for him to do that
Pulling others down to the Clinton realm