The Colony, a pale pink Palm Beach mainstay, has drawn the likes of Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren since 1947.

As graduate students at the University Wisconsin (Go Badgers!), many of us lived too far away to go home for short holidays.

At 9 a.m. on Sept. 27, water started seeping into the house from all sides. Charlie Gowan, his wife, Pat, and their ...