Behind the Hedgerow: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society takes viewers inside the private world of aristocratic Newport, Rhode Island –– a world of privilege that began with the Gilded Age, when Vanderbilts and Astors reigned. The story is told through the focus of Eileen Gillespie Slocum, a descendant of Browns (as in Brown University) and friend to all of the 20th century Newport (and New York and Philadelphia) elite. Slocum was the last of the Newport grand dames –– and one of the last grand dames anywhere. She left no successor. America had changed, and so had the world; a new moneyed class now ruled, though the descendants of the Gilded Age elite (many of them on-camera in this film, the first time) continue to live on and near Bellevue Avenue, Newport, still one of AAmerica’smost exclusive addresses. This is an exclusive, inside look at a vanishing society, placed in a historical context, and provides a deeper understanding of what F. Scott Fitzgerald meant when he observed: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.”