Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 28

Just when I think I've given up on trying to compare prices, here's one smack in front of me big as life. So far as I can see, The Drake is still a Swissotel, but it is not mentioned on their website. They may have just switched hands. Or perhaps Swissotel is ashamed to admit that they own the New York Drake. In any event, the rate now starts at $225 per night.

Harvard has a graduate program in Landscape architecture! Next time you see someone reading Proust and sipping a martini while doing laps on their Husqvarna, you'll know their backstory.

"Let's Go To Vermont!" Gosh yes! Lets! The 1996 ad for The Mountain Top Inn looks quite simple and perhaps rustic. Have a look at their website now. The place is like a machine.

The Celebration Bowl pictured in this ad celebrates the virtues of John and Peggy. These include "Honor" and "Trust." Two others that I can't make out for sure could be "Peace" and perhaps "love." The Celebration Bowl website lets us know that John and Peggy are doing well. Looking at the page that offers suggestions for inscriptions, we see that they got married on June 22, 2002, the same day that they celebrated 25 years together. Peggy went on to become the Teacher of the Year for 2003, and retired from her moonlight job at Cloverdale Ice Cream after 20 years. John, meanwhile, was the PTA President from 1998 to 2003 and won the Pacific Rim Poetry Award. I'll bet their house is full to the rafters with Celebration Bowls and every time a houseguest sneezes, John and Peggy turn white from stress.