How do you say “no” to an invitation to picnic at sunset on a vineyard while listening to local folk musicians? The answer is you don’t. You go and you eat delicious cheese and drink delicious wine on a sprawling lawn that overlooks the vines, all the while being bathed in light from the golden […]
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Moonrise Walk at Mt. Hope Farm
The Bristol Land Conservation Trust hosted another Moonrise Walk with Mt. Hope Farm this year. Our event was part of series of more than 60 scheduled outdoor activities called RI Land Trust Days, a two month-long celebration of land trusts in RI. This year, the skies were even clearer and we didn’t need our StarMap app […]
An heiress’s garden
Doris Duke was the only child of a wealthy tobacco and power industrialist. When her father passed away in 1925, 12 year old Doris inherited his estate (about 1.3 billion in today’s dollars). Rough Point is just one of the many “summer cottages” (mansions) you can visit on a trip to Newport. In my humble opinion, […]