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Beavertail State Park, located in Jamestown, Rhode Island, is known for offering some of the most beautiful vistas along the New England coastline. The Park attracts people from all over the country, to enjoy its pristine environment. Beavertail’s most popular activity is sightseeing, and can be done from the comfort of a vehicle, in one of the four overlooks or on foot, from the rocky coastline. Beavertail also provides some of the best saltwater fishing in the area, along with offering hiking trails, and a naturalist program that attracts hundreds of people each year.
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Providence College celebrated the college community's generosity with a groundbreaking ceremony for the Arthur F. &atricia Ryan Center for Business Studies. The Gratitude Leadership Dinner and Reception took place shortly thereafter on Friday, Oct. 2, 2015.
Newport Rhode Island. RI was one of the original 13 colonies to declare independence. It is the smallest US state. Roger Williams established the colony of Providence and Anne Hutchinson and others established a small settlement at Newport on Aquidneck Island. Williams and Hutchinson were Puritans expelled for Massachusetts for their religious ideas. In 1644 the 2 settlements united to become the colony of Rhode Island (after the isle of Rhodes in Greece.) RI was the first colony to renounce allegiance to the British King but the last to ratify the US Constitution - it waited until May 1890 for assurances that a Bill of Rights would be added.
The Robber Barons and Newport. During the Industrial Revolution in America after the Civil War a small group of men and families came to dominate US business. They were the leaders, the first to develop and use new technology and materials, just like Bill Gates in this modern era. They built the railroads, were the first to use the new Bessemer steel making process, they developed the telegraph, the telephone, and they discovered oil and extracted kerosene to replace whale oil as the main burning fuel. Later, men like Henry Ford developed the motor car at an affordable price for middle class Americans, and he also introduced assembly line production system. They were the first to take control of these new industries and establish either regional or national monopolies by buying out all competitors. There were no US laws to restrict cartels and monopolies at that time. They got control of the natural resources- the oil wells, the means of transport- the railroads and oil pipelines, and they manufactured - especially steel. They also owned the coal mines. So they owned everything from the natural resources to the produced item and they controlled the marketing, the prices and the sales. They were known as the ‘Robber Barons’ and their influence on American is still great today despite decades of anti-trust (monopoly) legislation. Fortunately for the US they started the tradition of massive donations as their personal and company tax rates were so low. Their family names are especially linked to Bar Harbor, Newport and New York City. They were an exclusive group. To ‘make it’ in NY you had to be part of the 400, the 400 people Mrs. Astor could fit into her ballroom.
The Astors: of German descent and they made money from the fur and opium trade and were known as the landlords of NY. They lived where the Empire State is now built. They owned huge areas of NY and had their summer house at Newport. They donated the NY Public Library to the city.
The Vanderbilts: were original Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam. They owned much of Fifth Avenue where they lived near the Astors. They built a railroad and shipping empire to make them even today one of the wealthiest families. They owned and built Grand Central Terminal in NY, the largest train station in the world with 75 platforms.
The Carnegies: Andrew went into steel making and created the US Steel Company. He then invested in oil wells, railroads, and coal mining and became the second wealthiest man after John Rockefeller. He endowed Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh - his steel making city. He endowed Carnegie Music Hall in NY. He was a financial backer of Booker T. Washington the great black leader of the 1890s who founded Tuskegee University for Black Americans. You might see Carnegie Hall in NY.
The Morgans: John Pierpont became the banker to the Robber Barons. He then developed General Electrics but he was the banker to all the main railroads, steel works, telegraph companies and he was the investor behind the White Star Line of Titanic fame. On your free day in NY you could visit his home and the Morgan collection of books etc.
The Rockefellers: John was the man who established the Standard Oil Company but he owned the oilfields, the pipelines, and the refineries. He had 100,000 employees and lived near the Vanderbilts. His philanthropic interests included health, hospitals, sewerage and education. The Rockefeller Centre in NY is still owned by the family.
The Fricks: Henry Clay Frick was a steel magnate with works in Pittsburgh and New York. His art collection, the Frick Collection of old European masters is housed in his Fifth Avenue home which was designed to make Andrew Carnegie’s home look like a shack. You can visit this collection on the free day in NY if you want.
The Breakers - one of the Ten Mansions open in Newport. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson had this mansion built in 1893. It is a 70 roomed Italian Renaissance style palace built as a summer house only. The house has been publically owned since 1973. It cost more than $12 million to build. Its furnishing and the building materials are lavish. The gardens are superb and sweep down to the cliff top edges, hence the house name, the Breakers.
The Marble House. This house was built for William Vanderbilt as a summer cottage between 1888-92.It was inspired by the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Mrs Vanderbilt saw it as her ‘temple to the arts.’ It cost $11 million to erect with $7million going on marble. William gave it to his wife as a 39th birthday present! To ‘relive’ the Newport experience read the novels of Edith Wharton, herself a NY aristocrat who had a summer residence at Newport. She was a great friend of the Vanderbilts. She is the American Jane Austen. Read The Age of Innocence 1921; or The House of Mirth 1905. Both novels have been made into films the Innocence in 1993 and the Mirth in 2000.
Photos taken near Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Had a great few days up in New England. So much fun to shoot.
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The 143d Airlift Wing welcomes home more than 100 Airmen from their recent deployment in support of Operation FREEDOM'S SENTINEL, July 4, 2019, Quonset Air National Guard Base, North Kingstown, R.I. The Airmen returning Include personnel from a cross-section of aviation operations, aircraft maintenance, and support specialties. (Air National Guard Photos by Staff Sgt. Deirdre Salvas)
Photos taken near Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Had a great few days up in New England. So much fun to shoot.
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Art Hearts Fashion Week 2015 - Nicole Miller Collection
After completing studies at the L'Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienneand graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design,Miller interned with legendary dress designer Clovis Ruffin in New York City. Miller began working as head designer at P.J. Walsh, a dress manufacturer. There, she was hired by the president of the company, Bud Konheim.Konheim said one of the reasons he hired Miller was for her belief that design and business can be successful combination.In 1982, Konheim started the company Nicole Miller with Nicole.
In 1986, Miller opened her first shop on Madison Avenue. Miller's fashion line launched in the mid 1980s with a conversational print men's tie collection that became a hit in the fashion world for a number of years.Miller made headlines in September 1998 by presenting her spring 1999 clothing line one week ahead of her French counterparts, becoming the first American to do so.
In 2002, Miller designed costumes for the Houston-based Stages Repertory Theatre production of GarcÃa Lorca's "Blood Wedding,"
In a departure from designing adult fashions, Miller designed a Sesame Street line of clothing for babies and toddlers in 2004. She also created a line of makeup products for Melaleuca.
Since 2005, Miller has designed a line of affordable clothes, handbags, footwear, fashion jewelry and other accessories for J.C. Penney. J.C. Penney credits this collaboration as result of extensive customer input. Miller also designs a home furnishings collection that is distributed through Bed Bath and Beyond.
Celebrities of varying ages including Anjelica Huston,Beyoncé Knowles, Angelina Jolie,Brooke Shields,LeAnn Rimes,Lauren Hutton, Jennifer Stone, Susan Sarandon and Eva Longoria have worn, and continue to wear, her designs. Miller designed clothes for singer Cyndi Lauper's world tour.She created gowns for Sheryl Crow to wear at the Grammys.
A labor day weekend in Rhode Island, while the weather wasn't sunny the sites were still fantastic. I love the lazy beachy days on the coast.
The 7th Rhode Island monument in Vicksburg located near Grant's HQ. It was sculpted by Francis E. Elwell at a cost of $5,000 and dedicated on November 11, 1908.
Vicksburg National Military Park
Vicksburg, MS
Rhode Island's "new" state capitol, completed in 1904.
Fun facts about the building:
Fourth-largest self-supporting marble dome in the whole wide world. (Top three: St. Peter's Basilica, Minnesota state capitol, Taj Mahal. I've been to all of those.)
In the filming of the movie Amistad, the Rhode Island statehouse filled in for the U.S. Capitol. (It's the background of a scene where Morgan Freeman visits J.Q. Adams in Washington, DC in the movie. My previous post -- Old Connecticut state capitol -- is where the Amistad trials began in 1839.)
On the upper levels of this building, there are four distinct areas: House chamber, Senate chamber, former Governor's greeting room (not its official name), and a photogenic law library -- all pictured here.
Also on site, an original charter from the British crown (King Charles II, 1663) is in a museum downstairs. A few cannon on site (not presented here), and other interesting artifacts in the museum.
This is a wonderful building to tour, and Providence is, over all, a darn good town, albeit pricey.
Boxcars in the New Haven Railroad's freight yard at Providence, Rhode Island, in 1952. Photograph by Leo King, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. King-06-001-002
Photos taken near Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Had a great few days up in New England. So much fun to shoot.
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