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Board of Health vs. the Beales

Jack Graves
1971

"Little" Edie Beale used a magnifying glass to read a search order from the Suffolk Health Department in October, 1971, as officials watched on the porch of Grey Gardens, where she lived with her mother, Edith Bouvier Beale. The department had responded to reports that the two women were harboring diseased cats and that the rundown house's furnace was unsafe. "Miss Beale called the inspection 'a raid,' engineered by henchmen of 'a mean, nasty Republican Town,'" in a page-one story.
Board of Health vs. the Beales