Eve Pell

"One Fatte Calf"
One of my family's traditions has its roots in both New and Old Worlds, and in the history of the English, Dutch, Huguenots and Native Americans in New York. Every year that we ask for it, the City of New Rochelle presents my family with a fat calf--or, in the spelling of the relevant document, a "fatte calf." This odd event embodies New Rochelle's compliance with a seventeenth-century real estate contract between a representative of a group of French refugees and an English colonial lord of the manor--my ancestor, John Pell.

We Used to Own the Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante
Eve Pell offers an inside look at the bizarre customs of the American aristocracy, from debutante balls and the belowstairs hierarchy of the servant class to the fanatical pursuit of blood sports and private men’s clubs. As she traces her absorbing journey from debutante to radical activist in California prisons, she provides exceptional insight into the prickly and complex issues of social class in America.

This Pell Tolled For Ordinary Americans
An aristocrat who cared about ordinary people, this eccentric lawmaker left a meaningful legacy. Rhode Island’s longest-serving senator was at home with princes and auto mechanics.