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Jun 27, 2014 · Remembering Fenwick in her autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life (1991), she wrote: “Fenwick is and always has been my other paradise.” The combination of swimming, diving, golf, tennis and anonymity in a small town made Fenwick the perfect paradise for a Connecticut girl and a Hollywood star.
Mar 28, 2014 · Katherine Hepburn House (1939) The actress Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) had long-standing connections with the Borough of Fenwick in Old Saybrook. Her parents, Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn and Katharine Houghton Hepburn, who lived in Hartford, began spending their summers there in 1912.
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May 13, 2021 · Actress Katharine Hepburn seated on the beach, Fenwick, 1938 – Connecticut Historical Society Perhaps Fenwick’s most famous resident was Katharine Houghton Hepburn . In her bestselling autobiography, Me , Hepburn wrote: “Fenwick is and always has been my other paradise.”
May 14, 2024 · In her 1991 memoir, Hepburn recalled June in Fenwick: “The weather was heavenly—golf, tennis, swimming. Sailing. Ever available. The family were there. They were all there, and it was fun.” The...
Aug 12, 2020 · In fact, as the biography Katharine Hepburn (via Vanity Fair) revealed, Hughes actually proposed to her on his way to visit Fenwick. However, Hughes apparently hated Hepburn's beloved family home so much that the pair ended up going their separate ways.
Aug 5, 2015 · In 1938, a hurricane devastated the beloved Hepburn estate in Fenwick. As the story goes, Katharine Hepburn was out playing golf in Fenwick as the monster storm was approaching. Hepburn and many others rode out the storm in Fenwick. There was no radar, satellite, or buoys. Nobody had any idea about what was about to roar ashore.
Jun 29, 2011 · In June, 1939 a local newspaper reported that “the largest and finest summer home now under construction along the Connecticut shore is being built for Miss Katharine Hepburn, movie star, at Fenwick, and is expected to be ready for use August 1, when she is scheduled to enjoy a month’s vacation.”
