87. The Palm Beach Chronicles: Dominick Dunne Seeks The Real Palm Beach
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It is a whole new season, investigators! This month we travel to one of the most exclusive, and wealthy, communities in the high society scene - Palm Beach, Florida. Dominick Dunne goes on a quest early in his Vanity Fair career that will continue through the years. This season posits the question: What is the Real Palm Beach?
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Further Reading
Fatal Charms: And Other Tales of Today, by Dominick Dunne (Amazon link)
The Women of Palm Beach, by Dominick Dunne, April 1986, Vanity Fair
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Done. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me today as we begin the month of February. |
| 0:15.4 | Dun & Dunn launched this month two years ago and I have so much love to give y'all investigators. We reached a huge |
| 0:23.6 | landmark in January, half a million downloads. Holy cats, thank you for listening and telling |
| 0:30.7 | your friends and your kind emails and reviews and joining me on Patreon like just the best all of you. I am so humbled and honored by |
| 0:40.8 | your support for this little endeavor of mine. I do have a spyglass right here with a little |
| 0:46.5 | bit of love and recognition for our latest Patreon supporters. Lisa L. and Carol S. You rock. |
| 1:16.4 | In honor of this half a million milestone and two-year anniversary of Dun and Done, for the month of February, we're going to have a little fun. It's time for us to explore the most exclusive town in the United States. Time to pack your bags as we assemble a high society pie of shiny sheets, presidents, and palm trees, |
| 1:21.0 | with a little real estate, some scandal, and some true crime too. |
| 1:23.6 | Welcome to Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 1:29.9 | Where the season is right now, Palm Beach, the winter home of the rich, and I mean the very rich. Palm Beach has been the playground for the 400 for right about 120 years, hosting and |
| 1:39.2 | homing the pinnacle of high society since the turn of the 20th century. Wintertime here in the States |
| 1:46.7 | means it's time for the sunny shores and balmy evenings of Palm Beach. It has for a long time now, |
| 1:54.0 | you know, for this very particular set. We have talked about the idea of these connected networks |
| 2:00.5 | of people, colonies, communities, |
| 2:03.2 | and Palm Beach is one of the most famous for the very wealthy. |
| 2:08.3 | Remember colonies and rich people go together, like the wealthiest families with a lot of |
| 2:14.6 | industrialist tycoon gilded age money. |
| 2:18.4 | These folks have all kinds of homes and all kinds of locales |
| 2:22.6 | and all in the season that moves with them. |
| 2:26.5 | And we in our Palm Beach Chronicles will move with the generations |
| 2:30.4 | that follow in these exact same cycles year after year. |
| 2:35.5 | The story does remain the same. |
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