As our 75th anniversary year comes to a close and we look back again at the Preservation Society’s history, we are struck by one theme that runs throughout: the generosity of our supporters that made it all possible. The founders who rescued Hunter House in 1945; the Vanderbilt family who allowed us to give tours of The Breakers beginning in 1948; the benefactors who enabled the Society to save The Elms from demolition in 1962; the families who bequeathed Marble House, Rosecliff, Kingscote, Green Animals and Chepstow; the supporters who aided us in purchasing Chateau-sur-Mer, The Breakers and the Isaac Bell House; and the countless members and donors who have contributed to capital campaigns, annual funds and, this year, Project Relaunch – they helped create, and you help sustain, the magic that is the Newport Mansions. This generosity, past and present, has given us the strength to persevere and the drive to innovate. And so we survived 2020. It has been a year most people would r...