Lowell, old buddy, apparently the phrase "starving to death as live-in caretaker of a National Trust manorhouse" is not one with which you are familiar. You need to read your Henry James, Richard Hofstadter, Scott Fitzgerald on the care and feeding of new and old elites. Altho my people weren't waiting when the mothers of the Daughters of the American Revolution hiked up their skirts and waded ashore, my mother does still own about half the original acreage of a two-horse hill farm in southeastern Ohio which has been in our family for four generations. She takes the haying and pasturage money but I pay the taxes as, at ninety years old, she forgets. If it was up to me, I'd have let it go to scrub 30 yrs. ago. That may be digressively OT but with you everything's in play so I expect you to understand!
jack
