ANOTHER DRENCHING
rainstorm sent the muddied
masses into the streams and
ponds on the property, where,
with clothes or without, they
bathed happily. Some others
chose instead to indulge in mud
baths, an orgy of slipping and
sliding. Either way, the resulting
news reports—and photos and
films—caused a ripple of rebuke
(or perhaps envy?) from the staid
“Establishment.”