Gilded age

I’ll be taking a bit of time off as we approach July 4. But I didn’t want to risk this week passing without comment, because it will mark the date, 104 years ago, that Hetty Green departed the bounds of this Earth.
Don’t know her? I’m sure some readers will prove to be exceptions, but frankly it’s also part of the point.
During America’s Gilded Age, from…
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