Jean Kennedy Smith’s Duplex Is Up for Sale

Jean Kennedy Smith’s grand Manhattan duplex overlooking the East River, where she played host to her large, prominent family, along with luminaries from political, art and showbiz circles, is being sold by her estate. The asking price is $6.45 million, with $19,975 in monthly maintenance. Ms. Smith, who was the last surviving sibling of President…

How Rhode Island Fell to the Coronavirus

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The numbers began ticking up in September. After a quiet summer, doctors at Rhode Island Hospital began seeing one or two patients with Covid-19 on each shift — and soon three. Then four. Cases climbed steadily until early December, when Rhode Island earned the dubious distinction of having more cases and deaths…

A Road Trip That Ended in Love

When they set out for San Diego from Denver in April 2016, Kate Googins and Tyler Tetreault were not a couple, just two people who had dated briefly six weeks earlier and continued to stay in touch afterward. A little more than halfway through their road trip, outside Sedona, Ariz., they recognized that at some…

A Free Courthouse Wedding? Why Not?

Andrew Campbell almost passed up the chance to be married for free on Feb. 12 in Atlanta. “I’m from the South, and my mom has always been all about decorum,” he said. He saw a flier advertising free weddings, posted at the Fulton County Courthouse where he and his fiancé, Alejandro Arriaga Ariza, went to…

It Was Almost a Bridge Too Far to Get Married

For Michelle Kayati and Lacy Hawkins, a low-key wedding was the plan all along. “This is not our first rodeo,” Ms. Kayati said, meaning that she and Mr. Hawkins were each previously married. Forgoing pageantry is one thing; slipping into a wedding dress you inexpertly stitched together yourself and finding your fiancé frantically chopping wood…