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"Few homes evoke as much fascination as Grey Gardens [AD, 1984]. The Inquisitive Guest had previously visited the storied 1897 estate, but never in August, when the current owners, Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn, summer at the East Hampton, New York, house. Bradlee and Quinn purchased the home in 1979 from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's impoverished but colorful cousin, Little Edie Bouvier Beale, who had lived there since 1923 and was the subject, along with her mother, Big Edie, of Albert and David Maysles' haunting 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens. Over the decades Bradlee and Quinn, both distinguished journalists (he is a former executive editor of the Washington Post and an upcoming recipient of the presidential medal of freedom, and she is a celebrated author and veteran Washington Post columnist), managed to return the run\u00ADdown landmark to its former WASP grandeur.\n\nLast Thursday the couple hosted a cocktail party to celebrate the forthcoming gala for the Smithsonian Institute's Sackler Gallery and the event's chairpersons Dame Jillian Sackler and Hilaria and Alec Baldwin. The gala will take place in Washington, D.C., on October 17th and will benefit the gallery's exhibition \"Yoga: The Art of Transformation,\" which will run October 19, 2013\u2013January 26, 2014. Inspired by the surroundings, the Inquisitive Guest asked some of the evening's notable attendees if they had ever visited or attempted to restore a historic folly.\n\nClick here to view the slide show."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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