88. The Palm Beach Chronicles: The Coconuts | A Most Exclusive Party
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we investigate the most exclusive party in Palm Beach, The Coconuts. It is a New Years Eve ritual, enjoyed by a very privileged few. For a town mostly run by the ladies, this is the one night the men take over the gala in thanks to the Grand Dames. Something must be amazing out the event – it celebrated its 100th anniversary December 31, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, |
| 0:06.9 | where nothing is linear and everything is connected. One episode was fun, two is better. |
| 0:13.2 | I wanted to pull one thread from that last episode, which began our Palm Beach Chronicles, |
| 0:23.2 | the adventure we're taking this month of February, |
| 0:30.3 | as there is no more exclusive celebration in the whole town than the coconuts. |
| 0:35.6 | Dominic Dunn just kind of dropped it very slyly, just a little bit of a mention. |
| 0:40.4 | However, in this double up episode day, you know I want to get into it. So let's go back to that sentence that Dominic Dunn writes. Exclusivity is the name of the game |
| 0:47.1 | in the real Palm Beach, being with your own kind and your own kind's house guests, excluding, |
| 0:53.1 | for the most part, all others, to be asked |
| 0:56.2 | to join the two clubs that count, two clubs that count B&T Everglades, to be invited to the |
| 1:03.1 | coconuts on New Year's Eve, the most in of the end New Year's Eve parties with its receiving line of 20 men. |
| 1:13.7 | I want you to remember that subhead. Dun and Newton go over the bridge to the fantasy |
| 1:20.1 | island where the women are the generals and the men are just black tied bystanders. |
| 1:26.5 | This party, the coconuts, is the one time of the year that the men get to be in |
| 1:31.5 | charge. The coconuts and this infamous party did mark a landmark occasion this year |
| 1:39.1 | celebrating its 100th anniversary. Put on your fancy gown. Grab your champagne glass. Don't forget your |
| 1:46.6 | invitation. It's time for the coconuts on New Year's Eve. Exclusive, private party, the most exclusive, the highlight of the social season. |
| 2:20.9 | Again, the men put on this party, |
| 2:29.1 | not the women. This is the tables have turned a little bit in Palm Beach. I did find one incredible resource here. This is from Avenue Magazine. Christopher Lawrence has done an incredible job in this |
| 2:37.0 | piece, originally published in January 2015 for the print edition, republished online in December of |
| 2:44.6 | 2021. Christopher Lawrence is trying to get some information, get some access to the coconuts. |
| 2:52.6 | And this whole piece was just too delicious not to share with you to present a little bit of the inside scoop of the coconuts. |
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