Please visit our blog site at http://www.practicalmanifestations.com/blog.html to subscribe to our blog updates via email or to view our entire archive of blog posts (searchable by keyword). This past weekend was a lot of fun, we were able to help a lot of people in different ways. Throughout this entire month we had been helping to promote the concerts our friends of Col’ Areo String Quartet were putting on at the Music School Carter Center in East Providence, Rhode Island. I contacted the... Read Full Story
Carousel in Narragansett Bay We took this photo of the Crescent Park Carousel in late October of 2009. It's pretty much all that's left of a famous seaside amusement park where the good people of Providence would come to play around the turn of the century. They could take a trolley from Providence out to East Providence and amuse themselves to their hearts content all summer long. It has been beautifully restored and is looked after by a father and son named Ed. (They only have one name... Read Full Story
Visit the Northrop and Johnson Yacht Charters Website The Breakers, Newport Newport, Rhode Island is a well known yachting location worldwide. Mention Newport, and any good sailor has either been to Newport or would like to visit. Newport has the largest deep water port on the eastern coast of the United States. In colonial times, Newport was a very busy trading port, with ships coming in from around the world. As a deep water port, the various sailing ships could come right into the docks... Read Full Story
Visit the Northrop and Johnson Yacht Charters Website The Breakers, Newport Newport, Rhode Island is a well known yachting location worldwide. Mention Newport, and any good sailor has either been to Newport or would like to visit. Newport has the largest deep water port on the eastern coast of the United States. In colonial times, Newport was a very busy trading port, with ships coming in from around the world. As a deep water port, the various sailing ships could come right into the docks... Read Full Story
Visit the Northrop and Johnson Yacht Charters Website The Breakers, Newport Newport, Rhode Island is a well known yachting location worldwide. Mention Newport, and any good sailor has either been to Newport or would like to visit. Newport has the largest deep water port on the eastern coast of the United States. In colonial times, Newport was a very busy trading port, with ships coming in from around the world. As a deep water port, the various sailing ships could come right into the docks... Read Full Story
Historian Patrick Conley wrote an excellent letter to the editor refuting claims made by Rhode Island College adjunct professor Julianne Jennings' statements about Roger Williams. Ms. Jennings wants everyone to know "the truth" about Roger Williams, and is pushing for the Department of Transportation to install a plaque which would share her distorted view of history. Here is the full text of Patrick Conley's letter:
The trashing of Roger Williams by Rhode Island College... Read Full Story
Marble House
Peak tourist season in Newport , Rhode Island is summer. Founded on Aquidneck Island in 1639, Newport was one of the first major seaports in the colonies, was significant in whaling and the slave trade, and was one of the first popular getaway locations for wealthy American families when the rich first became richer in the 1870s. Newport is also a major naval base , frequent host of the America’s Cup regatta, location of the International Tennis Hall of Fame (the U.S. Open... Read Full Story
Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. The house was abandoned in the 1940's until it was bought by Henry Wood in 1961 for $3,600. Henry Wood, the owner, runs the house like a camp: all skilled workers welcome. The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family’s boats and floating dock and stores them each winter in return for a week’s use of the house in the summer.Mr. Wood, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan in 1961. It had... Read Full Story
Watching the polls results, has been a roller coaster ride. When Barack Obama was projected to win Pennsylvania, I cried. When Senator Obama was projected to win Ohio, my eye widened. I yelled "yyYesss!!" We haven't reached the 270 electoral votes, but we are looking better and better. I have been so anxious. I couldn't bear thinking having George W Bush finally leave the administration of this country and then having John McCain have his bunch continue wrecking my heart. We are looking good... Read Full Story
To subscribe to our blog updates via email or to view our entire archive of blog posts, please visit our blog site at http://www.practicalmanifestations.com/blog Pam Lowell’s String Quartet, Col’ Areo, is putting on a concert at the Music School in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Proceeds from the concert will go to the Rhode Island Food Bank. Tickets will be sold at the door or people can donate a can good instead of paying for a ticket. The four members have all been playing for many years... Read Full Story
