Catherine Prendergast's 'The Gilded Edge' retells a tragic early 20th century scandal involving Carmel Bohemians from the female victim's perspective.
; scandalous in its time for drunken orgies; notorious ever after for a love triangle and a suicide that inspired multiple copycats not only within the colony, but across the country.
There the couple spent much of their time charming writers and artists they hoped would buy property in their “colony.” Prendergast sees the Sterlings as the prototype for what we now call influencers. That is, people who leverage their celebrity to sell things. What they were selling, in short, was a “Bohemian chic” way of life — a romanticized version of artistic poverty that must have privately irked George’s once-impoverished wife.
French’s death is often assumed to have precipitated the collapse of these early 20th century Bohemians. But Prendergast says her research doesn’t support that conclusion. “The truth behind what happened is both more intimate and more sordid and sadder and more important than what became a good story to sell Carmel.”Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s ‘American Harvest’ looks at the divide between the heartland and those who seldom think about where our food comes from.
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