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Trout Valley, the Hertz Estate, and Curtiss Farm

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Set against the backdrop of Trout Valley in the 1920s, the book explores John D. Hertz's lavish estate, Leona Farms, designed by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen. It highlights Hertz's life of luxury, featuring racehorses, extravagant parties with celebrities, and notable guests like Eleanor Roosevelt. The narrative shifts in 1943 when Otto Schnering acquires the estate, transforming it into a vast farming operation, while memories of its glamorous past linger in the community, including the iconic six-pony hitch and trophy-winning cattle.

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Trout Valley, the Hertz Estate, and Curtiss Farm, Lisa Damian Kidder

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Rok vydania
2008
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Jazyk
anglicky
Rok vydania
2008
Väzba
pevná
Počet strán
130
ISBN13
9781531639921
Hodnotenie
4 z 5
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Set against the backdrop of Trout Valley in the 1920s, the book explores John D. Hertz's lavish estate, Leona Farms, designed by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen. It highlights Hertz's life of luxury, featuring racehorses, extravagant parties with celebrities, and notable guests like Eleanor Roosevelt. The narrative shifts in 1943 when Otto Schnering acquires the estate, transforming it into a vast farming operation, while memories of its glamorous past linger in the community, including the iconic six-pony hitch and trophy-winning cattle.