Newport Rhode Island

[ArtsieAng]

You sure don't paint a pretty picture.

As a historian, I very much object to the
interpretations that are presented during the tours of these Newport mansions as completely unbalanced.

The city of Newport needs to construct a shack and a tenement house, with 12 beds in one room, no electricity, no windows, no plumbing, in order to show the whole picture of these mansions. They need to also illustrate the sorts of conditions that millions of people had to live in so that a very very few could have the sort of opulent lifestyle afforded by these mansions.

Of course, they'd have to build a few million of such exhibits, complete with raw sewage, diseases, and malnourshed inhabitants crowded together in order to really convey the complete picture in a fair and balanced way, but one or two such exhibits, at least a nod to the cruelly exploited millions of working people who made such mansions possible, would be nice.

[Marti]

As a historian,
I very much object to the interpretations
that are presented during the tours of these
Newport mansions as completely unbalanced.

ALDO - If you object to the interpretations
that are presented during the tours of these
Newport mansions as completely unbalanced
Please feel free to contact M`s. Trudy Coxe
Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director
with your personal & knowledgeable opinions.

The Preservation Society of Newport County is accredited
by the American Association of Museums, a recognition of
excellence within the museum community.

AAM accreditation is a seal of approval that
promotes ethical and professional practices.

[Aldo]

You sure don't paint a pretty picture.

It's not that I can't paint a pretty picture, the fact is that the so-called "Gilded Age" was not a very pretty picture, save for a very very very few such as the Vanderbilts. For the people who worked for these magnates, life was not a pretty picture.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that these Mansions are so well preserved, as they are indeed things of marvel and beauty in their own right.

But as museums? The problem is that THEY are painting a pretty picture by studiously avoiding any attempt to place these mansions within a historical and societal context. Good history needs to make the attempt to do so, right or wrong; it is meaningless without it.

Suppose, for example, an pre-Civil War ornate southern plantation house was opened for tours as a museum. And suppose that during the course of that tour, visitors were never taken to the slave cabins, and indeed the slaves who labored on that plantation were never even mentioned during the course of the tour.

Such an exhibit would leave the uninformed visitor with an incomplete and incorrect impression of the plantation. Worse, such an omission would most likely be considered as a DELIBERATE attempt to mislead, to incorrectly portray history, and the worst sort of revisionism.

Very much the same thing is happening in Newport.

[Marti]

It's hard to believe...

Another Newport summer is coming to an end, and now
we have the beautiful days of autumn to look forward to.

[Marti]

Bowen's Wharf - Seafood Festival - Newport

Bowen's Wharf - Newport, Rhode Island Festivals

[Marti]

November 17, 2007 to January 1, 2008

Christmas arrives at the Newport Mansions
with spectacular decorations, evergreens, poinsettias
and more at The Breakers, The Elms and Marble House.

[Marti]

Bristol's (RI) Annual Fourth of July Celebration, established in 1785,
is the oldest continuous celebration of its kind in the United States.

A spectacular fireworks display above
Bristol Harbor at 9:45 pm, July 3rd.
Bristol Fourth of July Parade on July 4th

July 4 - Newport at 9:15 and Portsmouth at 9:30pm.
July 5 - Jamestown at 9:15pm.

[Marti]

The First Night Parade & Spectacular Fireworks
The Beginning of New Beginnings 43 Broadway

9:00 The First Night Newport Parade begins at Newport City Hall
led by Leroy White and ends at Perrotti Park on Newport Harbor

9:15 Spectacular Fireworks Display Over Newport Harbor

firstnightnewport.org

[Marti]

July 19, 2007

Today we rode down Scenic 1A to Port Judith
On the way we stopped at Narragansett RI

Narragansett

We took photos of The Historic Towers RI

The Towers Narragansett

Oct 29, 2012

Narragansett News
Emergency Alert

Hurricane Sandy
Mandatory Evacuation by 6am of all lowlying and flood prone areas.