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Sarah Geronimo's "Record Breaker" Concert at Araneta Coliseum.
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Bay State Breakers women's Over 50 team at the 2018 US Adult Soccer Association's annual Soccer Fest. Bellingham, WA, July 14, 2018.
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Bay State Breakers women's Over 50 team at the 2018 US Adult Soccer Association's annual Soccer Fest. Bellingham, WA, July 14, 2018.
Visit my BLOG to “Take a Peek Inside the Huber Breaker Ruins”:
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Outside around The Breakers Mansion.
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a National Historic Landmark, a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, and is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County.
The Breakers was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt and with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion boasts approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2). of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $7 million (approximately $150 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation). The Ochre Point Avenue entrance is marked by sculpted iron gates and 30-foot (9.1 m) high walkway gates are part of a 12-foot-high limestone and iron fence that borders the property on all but the ocean side. The 250' x 120' dimensions of the five-story mansion are aligned symmetrically around a central Great Hall.
Part of a 13-acre (53,000 m²) estate on the seagirt cliffs of Newport, it sits in a commanding position that faces east overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
l-r my brother Reg, myself, my sister Carolyn and Martha N. at the Breakers in Palm Beach. We just went in for lunch, but I've stayed here before. It's still quite a place after all these years, though I will confess that lunch wasn't quite what I had remembered. I think they might have changed chefs.
My record breaker from a few months ago, heavily revised.
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I got to hang out with some mermaids today. Also, notable that XTC has come up twice this week.
XTC - "Mermaid Smiled"
From pools of xylophone clear
From caves of memory
I saw the children at heart
That we once used to be
Borne on foaming seahorse herd
Compose with trumpeting shell
From lines across their hands
A song as new as new moon
As old as all the sands
Shrank to stagnant from Atlantic wild
Lost that child 'til mermaid
Smiled
Summoned by drum rolling surf
As laughing fish compel
The young boy woken in me
By clanging diving bell
Breakers pillow fight the shore
She wriggles free in the tide
I'm locked in adult land
Back in the mirror she slides
Waving with comb in hand
I was lucky to remain beguiled
Grown to child since mermaid
Smiled
The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) established the family fortune in steamships and later in the New York Central Railroad, which was a pivotal development in the industrial growth of the nation during the late 19th century.
The Commodore's grandson, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, became The Breakers dining roomChairman and President of the New York Central Railroad system in 1885, and purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport during that same year. In 1893, he commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a villa to replace the earlier wood-framed house which was destroyed by fire the previous year. Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin. Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters.
The Vanderbilts had seven children. Their youngest daughter, Gladys, who married Count Laszlo Szechenyi of Hungary, inherited the house on her mother's death in 1934. An ardent supporter of The Preservation Society of Newport County, she opened The Breakers in 1948 to raise funds for the Society. In 1972, the Preservation Society purchased the house from her heirs. Today, the house is designated a National Historic Landmark.
Bay State Breakers women's Over 50 team at the 2018 US Adult Soccer Association's annual Soccer Fest. Bellingham, WA, July 14, 2018.
Bay State Breakers women's Over 50 team at the 2018 US Adult Soccer Association's annual Soccer Fest. Bellingham, WA, July 14, 2018.
Strobist Info:
Bowens Gemini 500 - Small softbox camera left on the floor,
Bowens Gemini 500 - Umbrella high camera right,
SB28s as back/separation lights camera left and right behind breakers.
One of a pair of Ford Escort vans ex Lothain likely to be cubed byt the end of the week like the tidy looking Vectra.
Bay to Breakers participants range from serious runners to costumes to floats to nudists (of all ages!)