WOODSTOCK | Home of Blenheim Palace

Alice Tepper Marlin (L) and your
blogger. Photo by Chris Oakley.

NEW YORK CITY, December 28, 2018–Earlier this year, Alice and I visited the original Woodstock, with our nephew Chris:

• This is the one near Oxford, not the Woodstock in upstate New York where the hippies went and started the music festival and now some good friends live. 
• Not the one in Vermont where people ski and Alice broke her leg skiing on Suicide Six and her nephew Bruce ran an Inn for many years.
• No, we visited the one by Blenheim Palace outside of Oxford, reached via Woodstock Road, where the townspeople near the Palace do their shopping.

Alice in front of the Woodstock (Oxon.) Pharmacy.

Blenheim Palace is where Winston S. [for Spencer] Churchill was born, two months prematurely.

He couldn't wait to get to work.

The palace was built by the first Duke of Marlborough to celebrate his important victory over Louis XIV. Without the brilliant military leadership of the Duke, Britain might have come under the sway of the Sun King.

Today, it shares a few characteristics of the Woodstock in New York. It is picturesque, well-preserved and dominated by arts and crafts institutions.

We went through Blenheim Palace, which was the site of a ball I attended in 1963 while I was at Oxford.

Arms of the Duke of Marlborough. 

Today it is open for tours and the palace is signposted and documented inside like a museum.

It's an easy trip from Oxford and could be managed in half a day. Those interested in coats of arms could admire the many examples from the Duke of Marlborough.

Books and Reports by John Tepper Marlin

(1961) Let's Go Guide to Europe, First Edition, with Lois Dean and Gordon Milde. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Student Agencies.

(1978) Reinvestment, ABCs of the Issues. New York, N.Y.Council on Municipal Performance.

(1980) Government Auditing in Britain. Council on Municipal Performance.

(1980) Compliance with Revenue Sharing Audits. Council on Municipal Performance.

(1982) Privatisation of Local Government Activities in Japan. Aims of Industry.

(1983) The Book of American City Rankings. Facts on File.

(1984) Contracting Municipal Services. Wiley.

(1986) The Book of World City Rankings. Macmillan.

(1990) Cities of Opportunity. MasterMedia.

(1990) The Catalog of Healthy Food, with Domenick Bertelli. Bantam.
(1992) The Livable Cities Almanac. HarperCollins.
(1992) Building a Peace Economy, with Betty Lall. Westview Press.
(2001) The Economic Impact of the WTC Attacks. New York City Comptroller's Office.
(2009) Defining Peace Industries and a World Peace Product with Jurgen Brauer (Economists for Peace and Security)
(2018) Oxford College Arms, with Heraldic Artist Lee Lumbley (Boissevain Books)

GREENPORT | At the Frisky Oyster

With Alice and friends at the Frisky Oyster in Greenport, NY.

We sailed with friends to Shelter Island and had a perfectly cooked fish dinner at the Frisky Oyster (rated by all as 4+/5 stars) in Greenport.

We went back on the ferry to Shelter Island and stayed overnight at the Chequit Inn, then sailed back.

A fine day.😎