Top attractions in Newport, Rhode Island: What a cool city by the coast and one of our favorite places on the east coast!
Mark Twain: “Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.” Back in the good old 1980’s when there was no internet, the only way we could learn about a faraway place was usually through popular media, like television, print media (magazines, newspapers), or word of mouth. We couldn’t simply turn on our smartphones or tablets to get information in an instant, like we’re doing these days. Although the internet age has brought about the best & the easiest way to access information like never before, I, a Generation X child of the 80’s, sometimes get nostalgic for the past (just sometimes) where faraway places really did feel exotic. As a child growing up in New York City, just about anywhere outside the city felt so far and exotic. Encountering new places on a magazine, a newspaper advertisements, or television ads made my mind imagine and wonder what they are really like. ...