Gilded Age Parties: Formal Dinner… on Horseback

Gilded Age Parties were notoriously ostentatious. But how would you celebrate the opening of your stables? A dinner, perhaps? Here is how Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, an American industrialist tycoon, philanthropist, and a noted horseman and horse breeder did it. On March 28, 1903, he gave a lavish 14-course dinner for a small select group…