After Rebekah Harkness died in 1982, her daughter Terry took her mother’s remains home in a Gristede’s shopping bag, according to a story in the New York Times. Or, at least, a leg, half of ...

The song, which is featured on Swift's album "Folklore," highlights a snapshot in the life of Rebekah Harkness, who was also known as Betty Harkness.

Taylor Swift's Watch Hill home was once the home of Rebekah Harkness, a divorcée who famously married into the Standard Oil fortune. [The Providence Journal, file / Kris Craig] Taylor Swift ...

In this magical school alternate reality story, we follow Wanda, a 16-year-old new student at the House of Harkness, owned by Agatha Harkness's family. Wanda starts a rivalry with Agatha, who ...

“Rebekah rode up on the afternoon train / It was sunny,” Taylor Swift croons in her new song “The Last Great American Dynasty”. In three minutes 51 seconds, Swift tells the story of Harkness’s legacy ...

An American Ballet Story, a documentary about Rebekah Harkness that takes us into the stages and studios of the Harkness Ballet through the stories of the dancers who were there, will be screened ...

So Rebekah Harkness went ahead, put up $2,000,000, and founded a real live dance company of her very own. Last month the new Harkness Ballet, headed by Choreographer George Skibine, launched a ...

For a time in the 1950s, socialite Rebekah Harkness was true American royalty. Wealthy, elegant, and beautiful, Harkness seemed to have it all—from her oil baron husband to her notoriously ...

Learn the story of Rebekah Harkness, the subject of Taylor Swift's song "The Last Great American Dynasty," who once owned her home in Rhode Island.