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JOE QUEENAN is an author and columnist. His most recent book is Balsamic Dreams: A Short but Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer.   LANG PHIPPS is a musician and writer from New York City.  
DANA FELTY hails from Morgantown, Kentucky (pop 2,544). She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and now works in Washington DC for a journalism foundation.   TAMMY CRABTREE lives in Pike County, in southern Ohio, where she works at a Burger King. She has four children ages 15 to 20.  
PAT GULDEN runs the Eastern Seaboard’s largest retail outlet for concrete lawn ornaments, located in suburban Baltimore.   R. COURI HAY is a publicist and society columnist in New York City.  
BRYON SMITH is a retired fireman and part-time general contractor in central New Jersey.   GINIE POLO SAYLES has written How to Marry the Rich and How to Meet the Rich, and teaches classes across the country on improving one's social situation.  
RICKY ALDRICH is a businessman and manages Rokeby, his 500-acre estate in New York’s Hudson Valley.   KAREN HESS has written extensively on the history of food. Her most recent book is The New Low-Country Cooking.  
ELEANOR WELLER is an interior decorator in Baltimore who has written The Golden Age of America’s Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940.        

 

 
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