The Friends of Clermont's festive Valentine's dinner parties at an assortment of wonderful nearby houses was preceded on Saturday, February 14 by a red-and-white reception at the Robert Livingston historic site in Germantown. Alas, most of the furnishings at this most graceful of riverfront houses were under dust covers, as serious bucking up of the chimney in the main sitting room is presently underway. But that didn't seem to bother stalwart Clermont supporters like Beatie Perry (left head-to-head with Rural Intelligence's own Dan Shaw). The beneficiary of this occasion is the gardener's cottage, renovation of which is scheduled to begin in the spring. The dinner party hosts included Tracie and Wint Aldrich, Janice Barringer and Rick Griner, Deborah and Peter Barrow, Joan Davidson, John Dobkin, Frank Faulkner and Philip Kesinger, Adelia and Charles Geiger, Alison Guss and Ric Lewit, Kat and Mark Lichter, Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney, and Mary Ellen Ross and Vern Bergelin.
Janet Apfel, Roger Sagerman, and Abigail Mack
Gladys Thomas and Wint Aldrich; Ashley Hopkins Benton, curator of Clermont, and Susan Ezrati
Sam Chilton and his mother Odile Chilton; Annie Sullivan and Natalie LaBossier
Tim Dunleavy and Benjamin Wilson; Rao Gaddipati, Jenny Sibbison, and Doug Lewis
Frances Gaddipati, Leila Lewis, and Demetrios Karayannides; Carolyn Marks Blackwood and Kathy Hammer
Hermes Mallea, Larry Sicular, and Merida Welles
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Matteline deVries-Dilling, founder of Lite Brite Neon, one of the evening's honoree of this year's Upstate Benefit adresses the gala from the Caboose's caboose.
- Karen Pearson. Courtesy Art Omi.
Olana senior vice president and landscape curatorMark Prezorski, president Sean Sawyer, The evenings honoree Kristin Gamble and New York State Assemblymember Didi Barrett.
- Oxygen House Photo
