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In 2013, Swift bought the legendary Watch Hill mansion for $17.75 million in a reportedly all-cash deal, per the New York Times. A philanthropist. Her …
It’s here where Rebekah catapulted into high society. ", The couple had three children, whose tragic lives are also described in her biography. “Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train / It was sunny,” Taylor Swift croons in her new song “The Last Great American Dynasty.” In 3 minutes 51 seconds, Swift tells the story of Harkness’s legacy through lyrics. Her grandfather founded the St. Louis Union Trust Company, ensuring she grew up comfortably. 'How should she do it?' Name variations: Betty Harkness. Craig Unger authored Blue Blood in 1988, six years after Harkness's death (in which her remains were placed in a $250,000 urn designed by Dalí).
Like Harkness before her, Swift used the house's 700 feet of coastline to throw some headline-making parties. And what place better for the troupe to practice than at her summer home in Rhode Island? Later in life, she studied in Fontainebleau, France, with Nadia Boulanger, the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, and Mannes College of Music, New York. She spent a small fortune buying her way into the dance world, surrounding herself with dancers, musicians and choreographers. Not long after the funeral, the top of the urn fell off, leaving witnesses to say, "She's escaped. We weren't kidding when we said she was eccentric. One work, Dreams of Glory, had an insipid story about a little boy who dreams of becoming John F. Kennedy. Donning a black chiffon Mainbocher dress with a white silk back-tied apron, she flashed a wry smile at the camera. At the same time, she studied music composition and dance. According to the New York Times, when Harkness did that, the neighbors sued to have it removed.
Pierce claimed to be a descendant of President Franklin Pierce, though that would have been quite a feat.
She’d had a brief, unhappy marriage to a doctor in the early 1960s. Born Rebekah Semple West in St. Louis, Missouri, she was the second daughter of three children of a socially prominent stockbroker, Allen Tarwater, and Rebekah Cook (Semple) West. 6 Things to Know About Rebekah Harkness, the Muse Behind Taylor Swift's 'The Last Great American Dynasty' By Heran Mamo. She and her friends called themselves the Bitch Pack and disrupted debutante parties. This is vastly different from Harkness's own design that included eight kitchens and 21 bathrooms, which rather effectively prevented her from having to run into her three children while they were in the house. Through the William Hale Harkness Foundation, she sponsored construction of a medical research building at the New York Hospital and supported a number of medical research projects. Born Rebekah Semple West in St. Louis, Missouri, she was the second daughter of three children of a socially prominent stockbroker, Allen Tarwater, and Rebekah Cook (Semple) West. She began to cut back and look for public funding.
This was the same house Swift purchased in 2013 for nearly $18 million, where she's hosted many a summer bash with model friends and big-screen beaus. Her children, not so much. But the result was disastrous. Lovestruck kids wandering up and down the evergreen High Line. It donated Harkness Tower at Yale, Harkness Commons at Harvard and Harkness Pavilion at New York Hospital.
She attended the Rossman School and John Burroughs School in St. Louis, then Fermata, a finishing school in Aiken, South Carolina. In 1972, she bought an old theater near Lincoln Center and refurbished it on a grand scale as the first theater devoted exclusively to ballet. Harkness, Rebekah (1915–1982)American composer, sculptor, dance patron, and philanthropist who founded the Harkness Ballet.
She gave them weekends off and charge accounts to the shops in town. [citation needed], On October 1, 1947, Harkness married William Hale Harkness (1900–1954), the son of William Lamon Harkness, both Standard Oil heirs.
[3] Edith married Kenneth Perry McKinnon in 1971[12] and was in and out of mental institutions before eventually committing suicide. One major similarity? 7/27/2020. Harkness had three husbands. A patron of dance and medicine.
The 11,000-square-foot mansion boasts seven bedrooms and nine baths.
In Blue Blood (1988), author Craig Unger writes that at the time of her death, her dance empire had been destroyed, she had been humiliated by the press, and most of her fortune had been lost through her capricious behavior. She also expanded Holiday House to include eight kitchens, 42 rooms and 21 baths. [5] When the Joffrey Ballet refused to rename their company in Harkness' honor, she withdrew funding and hired most of the Joffrey dancers to her new company, the Harkness Ballet.
Swift put up “No Trespassing” signs that they didn’t like either.
Rumor has it, the eccentric Harkness began to be pushed out of social circles not long after William Hale's death. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Before his death in August 1954, they had one child together; Edith Hale Harkness (1948–1982).
Edith Harkness, her only child with Bill Harkness, was in and out of mental institutions and eventually committed suicide. Rebekah West Harkness (April 17, 1915–June 17, 1982) also known as Betty Harkness, was an American composer, sculptor, dance patron, and philanthropist who founded the Harkness Ballet. Rebekah Harkness, as seen in the December 1956 issue of.
An artist (a descriptor she bestowed upon herself).
It's no surprise it was left abandoned upon Harkness's death until Swift began hosting the next generation of A-list parties set on the Atlantic Ocean in 2013. A misfit widow on the gleeful revenge on the town that cast her out.
At the end of the song, she suggests a certain satisfaction regardless of the answer: “There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen / I had a marvelous time ruining everything.”.
Let’s start from the beginning.
The celebrities brought paparazzi and, echoes of the Rebekah Harkness era, complaints from the neighbors. This content is imported from {embed-name}. "Gradually, Holiday House, as the Watch Hill estate was called, began to acquire the character of Rebekah's private salon. She insisted that it perform ballets to scores she had written. This is vastly different from Harkness's own design that included eight kitchens and 21 bathrooms, which rather effectively prevented her from having to run into her three children while they were in the house. She poured money into Harkness House, a dance studio meant to mimic the grandeur of European ballet schools, outfitting it with a marble staircase, silk shades, and a crystal chandelier. Thomson Asks States to Sue the U.S.", "Out of Prison, Doctor Hopes to Regenerate His Lost Fame", "Taylor Swift is buying into a rich Watch Hill tradition", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rebekah_Harkness&oldid=983810624, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 October 2020, at 11:13.
She didn’t help herself with her capriciousness.