Monday, December 28, 2009

OUR..."FreeBody Park"



So many of the Greats played here......It was the Newport Jazz Festival.....It was world famous.... It was fabulous stuff..........It was outdoors.....It was unusual.......It was unheard of..........Fresh.....New......Different..

....."and they came.....one and all"......


Walk by the field !....Take a stroll !.....Check it out !


Imagine way back when!


The Duke....Ella......Louis......Dylan............................"hear the sounds"......" listen "...

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

BLIZZARD..Dec...'09

Does Newport get snow ?......we hear it all season long....[during...High Season]...........Does Newport get snow ?....."Well", we answer....."Does Newport get snow !?"......A simple question..!..SO HERE IT IS Depicted....LAST SUNDAY...STILL 2009..!........All our bulbs aren't even dug up........and....there's still swiss chard, parsley, chives, onions, and beets under some of those piles.....What does one make of it........When you're over a thousand miles away feeling helpless, about Blizzard conditions at home.........And then we arrive right at its ending point.....a beautiful sunset from the bridge.........barely passable roads..........no people around....no traffic.....surreal lighting downtown , ' Like Its Time Square'........the ice rink a frozen mounded mess........and then our abode, a white warrior..just sitting there waiting for us.....standing up to anything thrown its way....................?







Friday, December 18, 2009

'Twas The Night Before Christmas........

" AVisit From St. Nicholas "....  Yes !..the Real name.....is credited to a Newport Resident of 1850 to 1863........
......Read for the for first time in 1822 to Moore's children.....
......and written solely for them !

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...here on Catherine Street, in Newport , Rhode Island........

...the Summer Home to Clement C. Moore , for his later years only....[b. 1779...d. 7/10/63].........

...then his Retirement Home too....................[actually Built in 1850 by Moore]..

...also...his Funeral was at Trinity Church here in Newport...where he owned a Pew....# 59...

..A brilliant man;  educated, scholarly, and involved in Newport...










Sunday, December 13, 2009

NOVEMBRE...."still in bloom"

MAYBE WE'LL JUST KEEP ON BLOOMING

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

St. Columba's

The church was originally known as The Berkeley Memorial Chapel (in honor of Bishop Berkeley of Derry, who stayed in nearby Whitehall).

The story goes that its first treasurer felt the chapel should be dedicated to a saint; the Irish-born missionary Columba, renowned for his teaching, healing, and miracles in sixth-century Scotland, was chosen.


Saturday, November 28, 2009

Eisenhower's House

  The Eisenhower House, is an historic, late nineteenth-century home,originally serving as the residence, for the Commandant of Fort Adams.

 Newport architects, George C. Mason and Son, designed the house in 1873.
General Henry Jackson Hunt was the first in a long line of  officers to live there.

The most famous military persona to reside there, was President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The house being so named.




President Eisenhower vacationed here during the late summer of 1958 and 1960.
At first, the president was quartered at the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island.
Golf was Ike’s passion however, and given Eisenhower House’s location near the Newport Country Club golf course, this became the president’s Summer White House.



The United States Navy transferred Fort Adams and Eisenhower House to the State of Rhode Island in 1964 for use as a state park.

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Art Museum from Afar

THE NEWPORT ART MUSEUM in THE GRISWOLD HOUSE,
                 on Bellevue Avenue...........

Home for the Museum since 1916, the Griswold House is a National Historic Landmark and an Official Project of Save America’s Treasures. Designed in 1862 by famed architect Richard Morris Hunt, it was completed in 1864 for John N.A. Griswold, a China Trade merchant and financier.

Griswold House was Hunt’s first major commission in Newport and is the premier example of American Stick Style architecture. Hunt went on to design many of the grand cottages of Newport’s Gilded Age, including The Breakers, Marble House, and Ochre Court.

The Griswold House currently houses restored rooms, galleries, a children’s art classroom, administrative offices, a lecture hall, and the Griffon Shop. The surrounding park and sculpture garden is used for many outdoor programs during the summer months.




Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Friday, November 13, 2009

the Edward King House


The Beautiful,... Edward King House...
in a beautiful park-like setting

Designed by Richard Upjohn for Edward King

..Formerly The Newport Library..... in 1968 through a grassroots campaign by area elders... The King House, was restored and put to use as the area Senior Center.
 
..Lovingly regarded by its membership, The King House remains a beautiful example of Italianate architecture and is listed on The National Historic Register.



Edward King House

35 King Street
Newport, Rhode Island 02840




available for use

Phone: 401-846-7426
Web Site: http://www.edwardkinghouse.com/
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Many of the King Family are Buried in Newport too ......[the family plot]........


The Best Location in Town

The Best Location in Town
F A I R S T R E E T N E W P O R T

MOON GATE at Chateau Sur Mer

MOON GATE  at  Chateau Sur Mer
A Simple Gateway..enter your secret garden ?

A Special Sunset

A Special Sunset
the old Christie's....Gone