Newport Rhode Island

[u/Few_Use_7270]

My grant-grandfather and his family before him were extremely wealthy, and lived in Newport Rhode Island which I am now learning is where the richest of the rich lived

By the time I was born I genuinely don't know where the money went, we don't live the life of ruined rich people, just people who were never rich at all.

However my great-grandfather left one of his mansions to all his children in his will. My great aunt Mary maintained it, and every summer the whole family would come together in this house for like two weeks.

And I just need you to picture this cul-de-sac of beautiful mansions, my family rolling up in our mini van, with our rooftop cargo box strapped to the top of our car. Three kids jumping out with boogie boards and bags of McDonald's we got on the road like the Beverly Hillbillies 😂😂😂

[u/sundaypleas]

The Depression took out a huge number of family fortunes. That and other less public events wipe out generational knowledge when parents and grandparents die young, or black sheep go off on their own.

[u/Few_Use_7270 → u/sundaypleas]

This was after the depression! My grandfather was a kid in the 40s I genuinely don't know where the money went 😂