The Elms

THE ELMS......a most beautiful fountain, in the rear west corner........a few weeks later, snow fell in the area

Plum Beach Light

Passing by 'Plum Beach Light ' , going over the bridges to Newport...[recently restored, and operational again]..........a beautiful site in Naragansett Bay....among so many other lighthouses , strategically located throughout the area...........They Are A Must See!

Jazz...Folk.....A Don't Miss...for '09

MR. FESTIVAL
Tony Bennett
Branford Marsalis
Etta James
Esperanza Spalding
Dave Brubeck Quartet
.........................................just some of the jazz people.......for '09...



and for folk for '09...........
Joan Baez
Pete Seeger
Arlo Guthrie
Judy CollinsNeko Case
Josh Ritter

George Wein / Festival in the News / And Ready

FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE......

Founder pitches to again lead Newport fests
Promoter's financial woes prompt return of George Wein
Newport jazz and folk festivals original producer George Wein says, ''I'm just trying to keep Newport going.'' (Associated Press/File 2008)
By James Reed
Globe Staff / March 4, 2009
bostoncom751:http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/03/04/founder_pitches_to_again_lead_newport_fests/

Faced with the possibility of the Newport jazz and folk festivals being canceled this year, original producer George Wein said yesterday he's in the process of taking back the reins. Wein, who began the legendary festivals in the 1950s, sold his production company to Festival Network in 2007, which put on last year's fests.


In January, Festival Network still owed money to the state of Rhode Island for last year's events. When the company defaulted and the Department of Environmental Management voided the contract, Wein stepped in.

"I couldn't let the festivals die," .

But all approvals have been secured, finally, as of late, and the venue is about set, and the show must go on...............

The Painter...William Trost Richards..

William Trost Richards
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William Trost Richards 1833-1905, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and settled in Germantown, Pa. Early in his career he painted landscapes and still lifes, but a year after buying a house in Newport, R.I. (1866), he turned to marine paintings. His light-struck seascapes, which follow in the tradition of luminism , are highly realistic. His work was long neglected, but interest in it revived in the last decades of the 20th cent. ...

William Trost Richards 1833-1905, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and settled in Germantown, Pa. Early in his career he painted landscapes and still lifes, but a year after buying a house in Newport, R.I. (1866), he turned to marine paintings. His light-struck seascapes, which follow in the tradition of luminism , are highly realistic. His work was long neglected, but interest in it revived in the last decades of the 20th cent.

Newport City Hall

The same ..'architect..builder'...,credited with building the city's 'City Hall'.......

.built Our Own, #28 Fair Street ,in 1880 to 1885 ,[ approx.].

Mr. John Dixon Johnston , was quite the builder in Newport.........He designed and built over 200 houses in and around the city........He helped draft the city's first building codes.......He was an inventor..........An employer of many , many people.........A lumber mill owner.....and on and on......

From 1875 until the 1920's.....countless papers were saved....chronicling his work in the area........Boxes of drawings were kept and now saved......

Visitor

Mike Sullivan visited Yesterday................His family bought 28 Fair Street in 1945..............sold it , in 1969.

He thinks they paid $5k for it ....sold it for $14k..........!

His dad was in the war.......He then came home......bought this house.......and started a Jitney Business in the city......
His mom, worked on Goat Island, during the war......working on torpedos....3 out of 7 kids, still home !

Mike remembered a house full of kids and family...he was the baby....neighbors were close and closer...family was everywhere in the city....grandma a block away....the Convent, was across the street....a gas station was at the corner.....grade school was next door, for all the Sullivans[St Mary's]........High School, just down the street ......Grandma's 80th birthday was HERE TOO!............there were neighbors sharing the back yard TOO...not Memorial Blvd, like Now........And the Harbor was in clear view from the Front Porch...[as we suspected]

We got an hour's worth of stories.........!!!.........He promised pictures by mail, when he gets home to Delaware......and maybe a return visit to Stay with us

Rochambeau..King's Park

the Face of Newport was Changed in the Late 1700's..................Because, on July 11, 1780, a French naval squadron under Admiral Chevalier de Ternay delivered General Comte de Rochambeau, his staff, and approximately 5,000 plus, French troops into the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island.

In the months that followed, Rochambeau and General Washington planned and directed combined operations, that explored, capturing British-held New York City. Which eventually led to a daring strategic campaign that captured the British General Cornwallis, and his army, at Yorktown, Virginia.

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