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Gioia Browne (left) and Margaret Whitehead look at the wedding dress worn by Bessie Pardee Van Wickle in 1882. The bodice has sewn-in bones made of whale baleen, guaranteeing the wearer would stand up straight. At right are a shelf full of archival boxes holding other dresses and apparel.

Designer Marc Jacobs said, “Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.” And, at Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum on Ferry Road, the guardians of the clothing of the Van … more

By Lynda Rego | 4/27/18

Blithewold Gardens Manager Gail Read in the Bosquet, where the arboretum's long-anticipated daffodil display should be in full swing this week.

The surest sign of spring

"So many places have beautiful daffodil displays," said Gail Read, Blithewold's Gardens Manager. "Blithewold doesn't have a display. We have a collection."Daffodils are dependable, even if they … more

By Christy Nadalin | 4/26/18

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