Considering I’ve been enduring one of the harshest winters of my life, I can’t help but wonder how bad it got for the Beales during the winter months at Grey Gardens. That’s something I wish the documentary had captured—their living there when the weather was at its worst.
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I think about this too...they had to have had the thickest blood ever or a ton of blankets to get through that. "Another Winter in a Summer Town" from the Grey Gardens musical puts the emotion into beautiful words and sound, though.
shareI have heard long island in winter is gloomy and cold. I am glad Edie got to be where she wanted. a Sunny hot state. she seemed to hate winter.
imagine that freezing cold house with no heat in December and January!
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People survived Long Island winters for centuries before central heating.
shareGood point, but those people didn't live in houses designed specifically for living with some sort of heating. It was an old house so I'm assuming it originally had some sort of furnace system? I don't know much about this subject. But the natives/people who lived before central heating was invented kept warm through fires and good insulation. The documentary didn't capture the house at it's worst. From the little I know in '79 when the house was bought for renovation apparently the upper floors and walls were collapsing.The Edies were basically living outside.
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