WESTPORT NEWS - Excerpt - Dateline Spring, 1997

REVELRY
Compiled and Written by: Louise Lancaster-Keim

"One of the smash successes of the Rooms weekend had to be the Marketplace where Joan Vogel Elias had brought a boatload of vintage costume jewelry.  You would have thought it was a red light special at Kmart the way the women were grabbing at the rhinestone brooches and bakelite bracelets (all right, I admit it, I was one of the grab-bees)."