Rhode Island reprise
Just some three months earlier, as part of my efforts to digitalise a large archive of colour slide pix, I stumbled across a batch dating from 1991. The images comprised scenes from the New England coast, a whistle-stop tour that took me from NYC to Maine and back. It took me a while to identify all the locations. Eventually, I realised that a handful of the mystery pix featured Newport, Rhode Island. I stopped there 33 years ago for barely 30 minutes. I resolved to return for a longer spell.
This time, I spent a full three days taking a closer look at the Ocean State. From my Providence base, I took the regular RIPTA 60 bus route to revisit Newport, famous in RI for yachting and Gilded Age mansions. I began my photo-sweep by returning to the sites of those 1991 photos, learning much more in the process.
In this view, on the corner of Marlborough Street and Farewell Street, everything appears to be the same as when I photographed it in 1991: not just the red-painted White Horse Tavern and St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, but also the vintage lamppost and even the overhanging cables.
I now discover the White Horse Tavern is the oldest tavern building in the United States, dating from 1673. It is a popular restaurant today. Behind, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church is a relative youngster, dating from 1807.
Rhode Island reprise
Just some three months earlier, as part of my efforts to digitalise a large archive of colour slide pix, I stumbled across a batch dating from 1991. The images comprised scenes from the New England coast, a whistle-stop tour that took me from NYC to Maine and back. It took me a while to identify all the locations. Eventually, I realised that a handful of the mystery pix featured Newport, Rhode Island. I stopped there 33 years ago for barely 30 minutes. I resolved to return for a longer spell.
This time, I spent a full three days taking a closer look at the Ocean State. From my Providence base, I took the regular RIPTA 60 bus route to revisit Newport, famous in RI for yachting and Gilded Age mansions. I began my photo-sweep by returning to the sites of those 1991 photos, learning much more in the process.
In this view, on the corner of Marlborough Street and Farewell Street, everything appears to be the same as when I photographed it in 1991: not just the red-painted White Horse Tavern and St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, but also the vintage lamppost and even the overhanging cables.
I now discover the White Horse Tavern is the oldest tavern building in the United States, dating from 1673. It is a popular restaurant today. Behind, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church is a relative youngster, dating from 1807.