Mike Desmond

Nov 22, 2023 | centredaily.com | Mike Desmond

Every year it's the same thing: the White House announcing the name of turkeys that will be spared becoming a Thanksgiving meal. It's been this way on and off since Abraham Lincoln gave in to his son Tad's request and made it a pet and not the family dinner. President Kennedy was the first to send a gobbler back to the farm instead of the kitchen. But it was Ronald Reagan who first used the word "pardon" and George H.W. Bush who made it into an annual White House tradition.

Oct 22, 2023 | robbreport.com.au | Mike Desmond |Mike DeSimone |Jeff Jenssen |Belinda Aucott

The 22-room retreat in the heart of the southern countryside includes a pool, restaurant, and more. Thoughts of Provence evoke images of winding roads bordered by a sea of olive trees, grapevines, and lavender; of iron gates, unpaved lanes, and enormous stone homes filled with handwoven carpets, Louis XV furniture, and an infinite supply of pale-pink rosé. And nothing, perhaps, is more picture-perfectly Provence than Château d’Estoublon.