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Article: MARYLOU'S UNFORGETTABLE ERA.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2009
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When Lehman Brothers and AIG keeled over, I wasn't overly concerned. When the housing market buckled, I was thankful that I didn't live in a McMansion.
When the economy began shedding jobs like a desperate balloonist dropping sandbags in order to avoid high-tension wires, I was happy that the new season of HBO's "Big Love" was there to distract me.
But then I learned that the annual Whitney Gala was being suspended in deference to the recession. I'm starting to get worried.
The four-decade-old jewel of the Saratoga Springs social calendar appears to have gone the way of swallowtail coats and mint juleps served in silver cups. Although the gala ...