Kick back this summer and be swept away to another time with the following books: buy from: Amazon | Borders | B & N | Indiebound | Powell’s[...]
Posts Tagged ‘newport’
June 5th, 2010 - 1:43 pm § in America, Amusements
Rhode Island exhibit focuses on Newport’s ties to tennis
More than a century before Roger Federer and Andre Agassi faced off in the U.S Open tennis finals in New York, players were donning fancier attire and taking to the courts of Newport to compete in championship matches. The earliest incarnation of the tournament, then known as the U.S. National Champ[...]
Newport Undressed: Crafting the Gilded Age Wardrobe
Any of my lucky readers who have a chance to visit Newport this spring must stop by Rosecliff (the home of Tessie Oelrichs) for The Preservation Society of Newport County’s costume exhibit “Newport Undressed: Crafting the Gilded Age Wardrobe”. “We think of clothing as being cheap and disposa[...]
July 29th, 2009 - 6:00 am § in America, Amusements
American Resorts: Newport
Newport, known as the Queen of Resorts, or as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr stated ironically in her memoirs: “the very Holy and Holies, the playground of the great ones of the earth from which all intruders were ruthlessly excluded,” was transformed each summer for the sole and very conspicuous[...]
