Tag Archives: Giles Constable
Ms. Joan Southcote-Aston
Were you to read through all of the transcribed interviews in the Dumbarton Oaks Oral History Project, there is one person in particular who could not fail to fascinate you, yet who is maybe, at last, too ephemeral to apprehend. D.O. Senior Fellow Herbert Kessler thinks that this woman—who underwent what can only be described […]
Don’t Feed the Wildlife: Dumbarton Oaks and its Neighbors
Though Dumbarton Oaks may feel “otherworldly”, as Margaret Dawson, an associate of Mildred Bliss, has it—what with its self-sufficiently immured Arcadian vistas and charmingly, necessarily arcane scholarly foci—no research institute is a world unto itself; even D.O. is part of the main, in rich and vibrant commerce with its environs and neighbors. As Georgetowners congregate […]
The Social Lunch
Dumbarton Oaks, unlike many other institutions of its kind, is home to three, very different programs of study. On their own, Byzantinists, Pre-Columbianists, and Garden & Landscape scholars would have no reason to interact, but at Dumbarton Oaks this is not the case. By organizing communal lunches, teas, and social hours, a unique culture has […]
The Dumbarton Oaks Oral History Project 