Tag: Anson Phelps Stokes

I know very little about milfoil and less about herbicides, but I know this: We have to stop declaring war on one another.

A married woman had no right to own, buy and sell property separate from her husband. Therefore, if a husband became angry or aggrieved at her wish to separate or divorce, he could simply leave. A deserted wife had no way to support herself.

Even as the Berkshire cottages were being built, the seeds of the undoing of an American aristocracy were being planted.