G’night Forever, Little Edie! Grey Gardens Is Empty at Last.<br />Mr. Younkers, whose blue baseball cap was pinned at the brim with a Little Edie brooch, recalled how on one of their first dates, Mr. Zee drove him by Grey Gardens,<br />and when Mr. Zee photographed Kristen Wiig there, in a story for Elle in 2014, he brought Mr. Younkers as a surprise.<br />“She’s writing a friend about the sale of the house.”<br />Mr. Younkers said, “Don’t you just love her handwriting?”<br />“It’s beautiful,” Mr. Vanhoozier said.<br />In 2006, “Grey Gardens,” the musical, opened on Broadway: “It’s a big house, the house we live in,” Christine<br />Ebersole warbled, miming Little Edie’s flag dance, a particular favorite of YouTube drag queens.<br />“I’m married to an obsessive collector,” he said<br />“We have the last letter Edie wrote,” Mr. Vanhoozier said, bought on eBay for $350.<br />Behind him, Scotty Vanhoozier, 43, an I. T.<br />specialist from Charlotte, N. C., showed off photographs of his license plate, stored on his phone, which reads, “STAUNCH,” a piquant Little Edie-ism; the Big<br />and Little Edie dolls he’d had commissioned; and the many contemporary Beale portraits he’d bought over the years.
