Behind the Marble House !

...................OUR FAVORITE TEA PAGODA ......

MARBLE HOUSE.......Fall 2009

St Patties....a wet one

SO........PICS FROM LAST YEAR SEEM APPROPRIATE........

.........................................................and..............Despite the rain......IT WAS A BUSY ONE........

1780..." La Gazette Francaise "....published Here !

Our..." Fort Adams "..

???..SPRING..???...soon?

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...CUP WIN ........#33...

http://www.americascup.com/en/index.html


BMW ORACLE racing was brought together by the CEO and founder of ORACLE Corporation.. Larry Ellison in 2000.

 Ellison has a long and distinguished sailing career inshore and offshore and has been a regular member of the sailing crew over the years of America’s Cup racing.



At the 2003 America’s Cup challenger series in Auckland..... the team, reached the finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup........ but were beaten by Alinghi, who went on to win the America’s Cup.



After being one of the dominant teams through the preceding America’s Cup seasons from 2004-2006, in 2007 in Valencia BMW ORACLE lost out in the semi-finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup.




On the 13th of July 2007, the team presented a formal challenge for the 33rd America’s Cup to the Société Nautique Genève. Just under two weeks later, three times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts (NZL) was announced as the team’s CEO and skipper.






BMW ORACLE sails under the flag of the Golden Gate Yacht Club, San Francisco, CA.

www.bmworacleracing.com

Rough Point....by the Gate

A 2009 addition for ROUGH POINT.......? ! .......They looked SO Real, that we had to turn the car onto the property.....and ..see for ourselves........??????!!!!!!

I Y R S

...........International Yacht Restoration School...........

MORE on ....THE COLONY HOUSE

The building replaced a smaller wooden courthouse built about 1687.

The Colony House was constructed as part of the movement to bring

formal town planning to Newport, which until then had developed in

haphazard fashion.It was intended to help transform the Parade, as

Washington Square was then named, into an elegant public space in

keeping with the traditions

of English cities. The design of the Colony House is derived from the English Georgian style

popularized by the architect Sir Christopher Wren, but its floor plan follows the customary

layout of English town or guild halls, which often had an open marketplace on the ground floor

and civic offices on the second floor.

Saint Mary's

Our Beautiful Neighbor to the east..........a great site... from three of our popular second floor rooms....and from our living room and dining room............
......always busy with activity and tourists and visitors.......
......how fortunate , to have such a neighbor so close by.....................
.......
our President, JFK.....got married...right there...at this very church..

Admiral Chevalier de Ternay delivers

On 11 July 1780, a French naval squadron under Admiral Chevalier de Ternay delivered General Comte de Rochambeau, his staff, and approximately 5,000 French troops into the harbor of Newport, Rhode Island. In the months that followed, Rochambeau and Washington planned and directed exemplary combined operations that explored besieging British-held New York City, and eventually led to a daring strategic campaign that captured the British General Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown, Virginia

Ida Lewis.....THE Bravest Woman.!

..."the Bravest Woman in America" ..............HER BURIAL SITE.....
                                 ...at the Common Cemetery in Newport RI....

Her Birthplace on Spring Street, Newport, RI...........Our Neighbor...!

**Ida Lewis Light.... In 1853, Congress authorized the construction of a lighthouse on Lime Rock in Newport Harbor. Lime Rock is a limestone ledge

 about 220 yds (200 m) from the shore. The original

lighthouse was a short stone tower with a 6th order

Fresnel lens and an oil-burning lantern. The light was commissioned in 1854. In the beginning, the lighthouse

keeper rowed from the shore daily to tend the light. In case of foul weather, the lighthouse keeper could stay

in a small wooden shanty....[Wickipedia]

Ida Lewis Lighthouse showing the original lighthouse and lightkeeper's house and the automated, skeleton tower.

Location: Newport Harbor
Year first constructed: 1854

Year first lit: 1854
Automated: 1927

Deactivated: 1927 (Original light)
1963 (Automated light)

Construction: Brick tower attached to lightkeeper's house
Tower shape: Square

Markings/Pattern: White with black lantern
Height: 13 ft (4 m)

Focal Height: 30 ft (9 m)
Original lens: 6th order Fresnel

ARLHS number: USA-398
Ida Lewis Rock Lighthouse

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

SOME...Fun........!

STROLL.. the Brick Market Place

The USS Bennington, .. Newport !!

At 0811, 26 May 1954, while cruising off Narragansett Bay, the fluid in the port catapult exploded, setting off a series of secondary explosions which killed 103 crewmen and injured 201 others.

Bennington proceeded under her own power to Quonset Point, R.I.

On 26 May 2004 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, many dedicated a Memorial to those fallen sailors.
It was covered by the local media and  approximately 900 former Bennington crewmembers, Air Group and Marine Detachment personnel came to remember the day!

an incredible site and view by the shoreline