In this unusual and lively memoir, Steven Key Meyers recaptures his early 1970s experience of being a teen-aged underbutler at Caramoor, the great estate in New York's Westchester County famous for its music festival and house museum—virtually an American equivalent to Downton Abbey. With wit and rue, Meyers («a masterly communicator»—Kirkus Reviews), recounts the charms and challenges of getting to know the house, its high-society history and its staff, both below-stairs and above, at a time when the rhythms of its way of life were already those of a bygone era. In taking the reader behind the scenes at garden parties, dinner parties, concerts, receptions and house tours, he assesses and accepts the gifts and losses of a transformative experience. This new ebook edition includes the one-act play The Garden Party inspired by Caramoor's 1970 garden party and also the full text of Meyers' novel Another's Fool, a Caramoor-inspired kind-of sequel to the author's Caramoor-inspired suspense novel My Mad Russian.
