The Shorewood Insider
If You Can't Say Anything Nice...Come Sit by Me
Etiquette expert, Margery Sinclair, returns to Shorewood Saturday to give local children a lesson on proper dinner table manners and protocol.
Margery Sinclair has been consulting and citing cultural rules of etiquette since she was a little girl, when she received Amy Vanderbilt's "Complete Guide to Gracious Living." "I didn't realize it was a reference guide," she said. "So I read it cover to cover, and so was well-prepared for a private audience with the Pope and also what to wear to dinner on the first night of a transatlantic voyage by boat." Saturday, international etiquette guru Sinclair will return home to Shorewood — having lived and raised her son here — to lead 21 lucky local children in a private lesson in etiquette from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The special class is part of Shorewood's "Stop, Shop and Restore" running the same day. Her new book, titled, "A Year of Good …
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Dave Koven
1:21 pm on Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Jim Genthe...Thanks for the kind comment. Glad I could help to get your day going right. You're right, you don't want to "blow your joe". more ›