{"id":11786,"date":"1997-08-16T14:10:49","date_gmt":"1997-08-16T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2020-04-29T15:29:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T19:29:34","slug":"inventing-the-campbells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/inventing-the-campbells\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventing The Campbells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July \/August 1997 | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/the-campbells.pdf\">view story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><span class=\"s1\">To paraphrase\u00a0\u201c<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Inventing the Abbotts;\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">the 1997 movie\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s3\">starring Liv Tyler,\u00a0\u201c<\/span><span class=\"s2\">If the Kennebunks hadn&#8217;t had the Campbells, they\u00a0would have had to invent them.\u201d Heirs to the Palm Beach clothing fortune, the Campbells epitomized swank-<\/span><span class=\"s2\">a wealth, grace, and Gatsby-like lifestyle never seen before and never since.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe Photoshop PDF\" width=\"1314\" height=\"922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm.jpg 1314w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm-200x140.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/campbells-sm-499x350.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1314px) 100vw, 1314px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year was 1936, and the town of Kennebunk was abuzz with rumors that the\u00a0<strong>Jim Campbell<\/strong> family, heirs to the Palm Beach clothing fortune and owners of the Goodall Sanford and Goodall Worsted mills in Sanford, Maine, had just bought the old Rogers Estate\u2014an English country mansion known to readers today as the Franciscan Monastery in Kennebunk, tucked like a jewel into 150 acres of gardens, walking paths, and wooded splendor along the edge of the Kennebunk River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/the-campbells.pdf\">Click to view\u00a0the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If the Kennebunks hadn&#8217;t had the Campbells, they would have had to invent them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-11786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-maine-stories","tag-july-august-1997"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18393,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11786\/revisions\/18393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}