Hi there, this is Greg Young.

Tom and I are still off celebrating the Bowry Boy's 15th anniversary.

The ground is littered with champagne bottles.

And so for today, I wanted to present to you one of the best shows that we've produced

this year for the Gilded Gentlemen.

The Bowry Boy's spin-off podcast hosted by Carl Raymond.

We often talk about the movers and shakers of New York's Gilded Age, but what about the

men and women who were serving them?

What was life like for a valet, a cook, or a scullery made in the mansions of late 19th

century New York?

How were houses with large staffs even managed?

What were the hardships and what were the benefits?

You'll find out all this and more as Carl is joined by Esther Crane from the website

of Femoral New York and the author of the Gilded Age in New York 1870 to 1914, as they

discuss the true stories of those hardworking domestic servants.

And after you're done, please head over and check out the latest episode of the Gilded

Gentlemen, featuring everything you've always wanted to know, but we're afraid to ask

about absent, that mysterious liquor which bedazzled the cafe society's of Paris

and London.

Does absent make you hallucinate?

And why was it banned in the United States for nearly a century?

Carl is joined on this episode by Don Spiro, creator of New York's Green Ferry Society,

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