While the third season of the fictionalized HBO series of the same name has caused quite a buzz in RI and beyond, the true stories of the era are often even wilder and more interesting than fiction. This PBS documentary, "THE GILDED AGE" presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.Revisit New York and Newport in the 1890s - you might even catch a glimpse of a few Herreshoff yachts and tenders if you watch closely...!