Had to move this to the correct forum.  Sorry.

Would love to know what coldly objective and current resident of Round Hill edifies the historic record on the Greens.  I recall when The Day They Shook The Plum Tree - a relatively scandalous book on the Greens - was published forty odd years ago, the area residency produced The Greens As I Knew Them in sputtering contradiction, although arguing different points and essentially serving as a defense of class and neighbor and, maybe, family friend. 

There were many off the record stories of the parties the Colonel had at his Round Hill abode.  Even dividing by a large, two digit number, they must have been something the locals recalled deep into old age. 

I suppose we could argue about how Green got his ranked title.  Let's just say, he didn't rise through the ranks or serve in the Army with a wooden leg, and that it is to be doubted someone with less money would have been accorded the honor.  "Honorary" rank was a problem after the Civil War, along with brevet rank, and not just for social reasons.  The legitimate officers - especially the wounded ones - resented them hugely.   

It is hard not to like both of Hetty's children in the books I've read.  Traumatized seems insufficient description, but they both came out pretty well, money or not.  I don't understand why they should be honored for that, particularly, or being born wealthy.  Although, I suppose there would have been cause if they had turned into serial murderers, so maybe they should be honored.

I didn't name Hetty the Witch of Wall St.  And that isn't the worst thing she was commonly called.  I would agree that much of it was because she was a woman acting as brazenly as a male in the exercise of power, but her utter lack of sincere friends throughout her life (as I recall) speaks volumes.