January 27, 2012: Etiquetteer was interviewed for the Boston Spirit blog at Boston.com in preparation for “Good Manners at the Gibson House with Etiquetteer.”

January 23, 2012: “Good Manners at the Gibson House with Etiquetteer” is getting some nice press, including Back Bay Patch and the latest issue of Boston Spirit. As of today the February 1 6:00 PM tour is nearly sold out! Please contact the Gibson House to reserve a space as soon as you can!

October 17, 2011: SAVE THE DATE for Etiquetteer’s first guided tour of an historic home! “Good Manners at the Gibson House with Etiquetteer, presented by Robert B. Dimmick” will take place on Wednesday, February 1, 2012, at the Gibson House, 137 Beacon Street, Back Bay, Boston. A reception will take place from 6-6:30 PM followed by a one-hour program. Admission is free to Gibson House members and $10 per person for the general public. To reserve, please contact info@thegibsonhouse.org or 617-267-6338.

The Gibson family and their belongings are used to explain Victorian and early 20th-century manners by Etiquetteer, etiquette columnist Robert B. Dimmick, on a 60-minute tour of the Gibson House. Etiquetteer’s witty interpretation will leave you with a less stuffy opinion of Boston Brahmins!

February 22, 2008: Etiquetteer is quoted in a Boston Globe story about charm and likability by reporter Beth Teitell.

October 13, 2006: Etiquetteer was honored to judge the MIT Quarter Century Club’s Silver Tea and Hat Gala at the MIT Faculty Club. Etiquetteer led off with a few passages from Emily Post’s 1923 edition of “Etiquette,” on vulgar clothes and the superior quality of balls in Boston. Hats from the silly to the sensational appeared, and Etiquetteer awarded prizes for (from left to right) “Best in Show” for Overall Ensemble, Best Use of Organic Matter (the red roses are real, while the blue roses are velvet), Grand Prize for General Excellence and Elegance, Most Masculine Hat, and Silliest Hat. The latter, if you can imagine it, had an audio component: a toy antique telephone that rang!On Friday, January 28, 2006. Etiquetteer will appear at MIT’s Charm School for a two-hour question-and-answer session, “Perfect Propriety with Etiquetteer.”Someone at Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper, has posted a link to Etiquetteer, but you’ll have to read Hebrew to understand it.Etiquetteer is quoted in the January, 2003 issue of enRoute, the in-flight magazine of Air Canada. Read the article here.

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