The Laughing Lesson: A Memoir by the Founder of Living Folk Records and Concerts by Peter Johnson.
Peters glimpses of family life in Newport and Bar Harbor are, in fact, an ethnography of top drawer New England society. The notion of the Johnson pere teaching his son that then US President Franklin Roosevelt was a traitor to our class seems incredible today. Cleveland Amorys The Proper Bostonians was filled with similar tales of the same sorts of people, but in a more detached way.