Her grandfather's servants hung tablecloths and lace runners in this basement drier. Her dress is dotted with bright circles like so many multicolored balloons rising against a black sky, and suddenly she's soaring, too, her swoopy cloud of gray hair spinning, a graceful hand reaching skyward to a flamenco rhythm.ĭeep in the cool servants' quarters of the Stimson-Green Mansion, Priscilla Bullitt Collins tugs at a tall vertical row of heavy wooden doors, pulling one free to reveal an old but efficient drying system dating to 1900. Harriet Stimson Bullitt drums the floor of Tio's Eastlake bakery in staccato beats, her jaw angled over one shoulder, eyes flashing provocatively. THE SISTERS REMEMBER THERE WAS ALWAYS CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING AT THEIR BREAKFAST TABLE
PATSY, LEFT, WAS ABOUT 23 YEARS OLD HARRIET, CENTER, WAS ABOUT 18. THE CAKE WAS LEFT OVER FROM PATSY'S 70TH BIRTHDAY PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE.ĬUTLINE: IN 1943, FAMILY FRIEND AND PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER ROWENA RATHBONE PHOTOGRAPHED DOROTHY BULLITT AND HER DAUGHTERS AT THEIR HIGHLANDS HOME. HARRIET BULLITT SHARES HER MOTHER'S LOVE OF BOATS AND LIVES ON HER OWN TUG, LEFT.ĬUTLINE: HARRIET, LEFT, AND PATSY REMINISCE OVER COFFEE IN THE KITCHEN OF THE STIMSON-GREEN MANSION. BOTH DOROTHY AND THE TUG BARELY MADE IT TO SHORE. SHE HAD IT TOWED TO STIMSON MARINA IN ITS DERELICT STATE AND AS IT FLOATED ACROSS THE LAKE, IT SANK DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE WATER. NOT LONG AFTER THIS WAS TAKEN, SCOTT BULLITT DIED.ĬUTLINE: JOHNNY CLOSS: THE SISTERS TELL A STORY ABOUT DOROTHY BULLITT'S RESCUE IN 1964 OF THE STIMSON TUG (ABOVE), WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO HER FATHER C.D.
CUTLINE: THE 1928 PHOTOGRAPH OF THE BULLITT FAMILY AT HOME IN THE HIGHLANDS INCLUDES ALEXANDER SCOTT BULLITT, DOROTHY, AND THE THREE CHILDREN, STIMSON, HARRIET AND PATSY.
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