Edith beale photographs and memories
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A Return to Grey Gardens
When autumn riptides break free and sculpt a deranged shoreline out of the beaches of East Hampton, I often recall one of my last conversations with Little Edie Beale. I imagine seeing her again, the prisoner of Grey Gardens, freed by the postseason to appear in her black net bathing suit, perhaps perform an antic little dance, then streak down from the dunes trailing a long silk scarf and plunge into the embrace of waves. I loved her spirit.
The musical Grey Gardens, which opens this week on Broadway, has triggered even more memories of when I first met the Beale ladies and went on to write the first story about them for this magazine, “The Secret of Grey Gardens.” It was the summer of My family had rented a place across the street from what my thenyear-old daughter called the Witch House. One Sunday, she found a litter of baby rabbits left in a box in our driveway and begged to take them over there, since it was already home to dozens of cats. This was how I described our visit at the time:
We ducked under the ropes of bittersweet hanging from a pair of twisted catalpa trees and skittered past a Cadillac brooding in the tangled grasses to find ourselves at the tippy porch steps of Grey Gardens. A hand-lettered sign hung from the door: Do
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‘Mystique,’ Memories, Mementos at Grey Gardens
A celebrated, if unusual, component of East Hampton’s history will be dispersed, one piece at a time, starting Friday at 10 a.m. when an estate sale is held at Grey Gardens, the room house at 3 West End Road made famous by a documentary about its eccentric inhabitants, Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale.
Big Edie and Little Edie, who lived at Grey Gardens for more than 50 years, were an aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, who spent childhood summers at nearby Lasata, her family’s estate at Further Lane.
The Beales were found to be living in squalor with a large number of cats and other animals, resulting in a eviction order issued by the Suffolk Health Commission. Lee Radziwill, a sister of Ms. Kennedy Onassis, suggested a documentary to the celebrated filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, resulting in the film “Grey Gardens.”
The elder Ms. Beale died in Ben Bradlee, the late executive editor of The Washington Post, and his wife, the journalist Sally Quinn, bought Grey ardens from Little Edie in The younger Ms. Beale died in
Ms. Quinn recently sold Grey Gardens for a reported $ million. She had been renting out the property since , one year after Bradlee’s death.
Susan