tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post6187508430355897208..comments2024-03-22T16:14:12.974-04:00Comments on Old Long Island: 'The Braes'Zach L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04464823999255502522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-19261207969358670302013-02-05T21:57:25.062-05:002013-02-05T21:57:25.062-05:00Way back in the 70's my sister and I used to k...Way back in the 70's my sister and I used to know some students who went to Webb. We would go hang out in the house, stroll the grounds, look out as you stood in the front door through the body of the house and out the back, a view perfectly situated so that one was looking out over Long Island Sound. Such a beautiful, tranquil place. Sometimes it takes men of great wealth to build manses none of us could, for the rest of us to see and enjoy something made of grandeur. There is an elegant beauty in it I am glad I had the opportuniyt to experience, having grown up in Glen Cove, even though I did not grow up rich. ccalgirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16603894391526327551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-63938163006567058312012-11-29T08:40:24.965-05:002012-11-29T08:40:24.965-05:00How reassured, and missing the irony, Herbert Prat...How reassured, and missing the irony, Herbert Pratt must have been, as he was driven through those gates and down the drive to his mock Elizabethan mansion, to know that he was rich, conservative, and the master of a house that would do any English earl proudThe Down East Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13950254669198151850noreply@blogger.com