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 "...

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....................?

Newport gets hit with a 'Blizzard'.......Now there's a story..!........And we're returning to Newport, from hot and sunny climates, south of here.....IT WAS PRETTY THE NEXT MORNING THOUGH.

'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...

NOVEMBRE...."still in bloom"

MAYBE WE'LL JUST KEEP ON BLOOMING

Churches...randomness

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.