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Elsewhere ashore, the International Tennis Hall of Fame holds an annual tournament and inducts a new member or two. The International Polo Series runs through nearby Glen Farm. Jazz festivals, folk festivals, the Black Ships festival and more light up the weekends, and September brings the famous Newport International Boat Show to by John Galluzzo town. There are lighthouse tours, ewport, like no other city in the Northeast, lives and wine-tasting classes to ace, menus at wharfside restaurants to scrutinize, breathes yachting. Other cities, from Portland to New museums to peruse, and, if you pick the York City, thrive on the industries of the ocean, but right weekend, the possibility of sitting Newport has foresworn most of them—no terminals down to dinner in one of the mansions, there today await the delivery of liquid natural gas or a just like an Astor. So Newport has aged but has done shipment of cars from Asia—to pay close attention to the beauty so gracefully. Sailors from all over the of the sailing life. world still converge on the city as they did in years gone by. From catboats to One might guess that Newport’s time had passed, and mega-yachts, Narragansett Bay is alive one great era has. The Gilded Age was Newport’s time to with everyone from day-trippers to charter boat revelers shine, when the Astors and Vanderbilts and Rockefellers to participants in the Newport to Bermuda race. The New moved about town, from Rosecliff to the Breakers to the York Yacht Club’s Race Week has already broken the 150Elms, in a never-ending cycle of luxuriousness and, certainly, year barrier, and we know it’s here to stay. flamboyance. Those days are gone, but the architecture For most seaside communities, high times come and go remains, and, with it, the anecdotes, the tales, the sagas. A quickly, as the forces of history swirl in a way that make visitor to Newport today can visit the Breakers, the Elms, something chic one moment, passé the next. Newport, Rosecliff, and with a bit of imagination picture what those though, has withstood that test, rolled with its antiquity, days must have been like. and learned from its past.
Captain’s Guide MEGA YACHTS 2013
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