Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Health Leisure North America Spa Travel The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century sociability, operating as a kind of open space where the ordinary rules regulating regional and class differences might be suspended, … traced in the Grand Spas of Continental Europe. 14 Today, Ballston Spa, is a post-industrial town, the Sans Souci having operated as a law school and a boarding house in the mid-nineteenth century before being torn down in 1887. Most of the …
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