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He has served as the director of Gladstone Gallery from 2022 to 2025
This timeline is incorrect: Maroney was already a Gladstone director in February 2019, so his tenure did not begin in 2022.
Full reasoning
Multiple reputable 2019 profiles identify Cooke Maroney as already holding a director role at Gladstone years before 2022.
- Newsweek reported on February 6, 2019 that Maroney "currently directs the Gladstone 64 branch of the New York-based Gladstone Gallery."
- TIME reported the same day that he "is the current director of the Gladstone art gallery in New York City."
Because he was already serving as a Gladstone director in 2019, the statement that he served there "from 2022 to 2025" is inaccurate on its face: it starts his tenure at least three years too late.
2 sources
- Who Is Cooke Maroney? Jennifer Lawrence Engaged to Art Gallery Director - Newsweek
Published Feb. 6, 2019: "He currently directs the Gladstone 64 branch of the New York-based Gladstone Gallery..."
- Jennifer Lawrence Is Engaged to Art Aficionado Cooke Maroney - TIME
Published Feb. 6, 2019: "Maroney grew up in Vermont and is the current director of the Gladstone art gallery in New York City..."
They began Oliver Hill Farm, a 750-acre dairy and animal farm in 1990, one of the first such farms in Vermont.
The farm date is wrong: James Maroney said he and Suki Fredericks bought the farm and renamed it Oliver Hill Farm in 1986, not 1990.
Full reasoning
A contemporaneous profile in Seven Days quotes James Maroney directly about the farm's history. He said that he and Suki Fredericks bought the property in 1986 after moving from New York, and that "We renamed the place Oliver Hill Farm" at that time. The same article says they were already producing organic milk in their first years there.
That directly contradicts the statement that they "began Oliver Hill Farm ... in 1990." Additional Vermont coverage also identifies Oliver Hill Farm as one of the state's early organic dairies, describing it as the third certified organic dairy in Vermont.
2 sources
- Dairy Case | Seven Days
James Maroney said: "Suki and I bought it in 1986 ... We renamed the place Oliver Hill Farm ... In those first years we were running what was arguably the biggest organic dairy farm in Vermont."
- Maroney: Dairy should go organic to save itself and the lake | Vermont Business Magazine
James Maroney "is the owner of Oliver Hill Farm in Leicester, VT the third and very much the largest certified organic dairy farm in Vermont (NOFA 1989)."
A 1994 fire ruined much of the farm;
The year appears to be wrong: James Maroney said the barn burned down in 1995, not 1994.
Full reasoning
In a Seven Days interview, James Maroney said Oliver Hill Farm was producing organic milk "until 1995, when our barn burned down." That directly conflicts with the article's claim that a 1994 fire ruined much of the farm.
Given that the statement assigns a specific year, and the farm owner himself gave a different one in a reported interview, the date in the post appears to be incorrect.
1 source
- Dairy Case | Seven Days
James Maroney said: "We were producing 2 million pounds a year of organic milk until 1995, when our barn burned down and we got out of dairying directly."