Annandale: Gilded Saratoga Book One

by Dr. Hollis Palmer

This book is based primarily on incidents from the lives of very real, very wealthy, and very tragic families who lived in Saratoga during the Gilded Age. The major births, marriages, divorces, deaths, along with incidents such as the cross-country excursion (Book Five or so) and the various lawsuits, are fictionalized based on actual newspaper accounts. With only a few exceptions there is no way that, in 2022, the author would know specific details about the relationships between members of family, let alone their conversations from over one hundred years ago, so consider all the conversations as fiction. The Lathrops, Batchellers, Davidsons, and Hansons were contemporaries. They were all wealthy. They all interacted. Yet, they were different. The Lathrops were very social and benevolent. The Batchellers, although rooted in Saratoga, were truly international, living much of their lives in Washington DC; Alexandria, Egypt; Lisbon, Portugal; and Paris, France. The newly rich Davidsons, whose house is across from the thoroughbred track, moved with the sporty crowd.

249 pages, Paperback

Published July 6, 2022