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Arts & Culture
4:57 pm
Fri February 8, 2013

Downton Abbey & Biltmore – How Similar Are They?

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Downton Abbey cast in front of Highclere Castle
Credit The Biltmore Company
Biltmore House, present day
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Highclere Castle, where Downton Abbey is filmed
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John and Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil with friends, 1925, in front of Biltmore House
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The Crawley family and staff in front of Downton Abbey
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Cornelia Vanderbilt, 1924
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Edith Crawley, the middle daughter of Downton Abbey
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Cornelia Vanderbilt's formal wedding portrait, 1924. She posed at the foot of the Grand Staircase in Bilmore House.
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Edith Crawley in a wedding dress
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Cornelia Vanderbilt and John Cecil's wedding celebration in Biltmore Village was heralded by townspeople from Asheville.
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Sybil Crawley, Tom Branson, and their newborn daughter
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George Vanderbilt and baby Cornelia, 1900
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Herbert Noble, a British servant at Biltmore who lost his hand in World War I and was promised a job upon his return to the estate after the war
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Servants in a scene from Downton Abbey. At Biltmore servants ate in a similar downstairs dining area beside the kitchen.
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A servant's room at Biltmore bears a strong resemblance to those in Downton Abbey.
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George Vanderbilt was an early adopter of modern technology. This is one of two electric elevators in the house.
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State of Things
11:00 am
Thu May 17, 2012

The Woodwright's Shop

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By and Dixon Crews

Roy Underhill has been host of “The Woodwright's Shop” on PBS since 1979, making his show the network’s longest running “how-to” program. Underhill’s show is designed to reconnect us with our woodworking roots and he offers strategies on how to make everything from book stands to full-size furniture.

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State of Things
11:29 am
Wed April 25, 2012

Rock Star of the Stars

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rock star of the stars. The astrophysicist is one of the most famous faces in science. Tyson is the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History and the host of the PBS show, “NOVA scienceNOW.”


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