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Yvonne and Alison travel 3,000 miles to visit Edie and Gloria Mehiel on Block Island and see the sights in Newport RI. The First Wives Club + Cousin Alison, reconvened again to mull the past, celebrate the present and delight in the future! We wined and dined, walked and shopped, and talked and talked and talked! Yvonne and Alison gained a new historical perspective in Newport- Â took a sailboat ride, toured a Vanderbilt mansion and walked the town.
Block Island High Speed passenger ferry in Narragansett RI
Leaving Point Judith
On the Atlantic Ocean
Sunset over the Great Salt Pond
Gloria, Edie and Alison on the beach with Penny Lane the pup
The First Wives Club + cousin Alison
Looking sharp!
Note the light on the North Lighthouse
The backside of Edie's lovely Block Island home.
The view from the deck- the town of New Shoreham and then the ocean in the distance.
The Annex, a lovely place to stay.
Breakfast on the deck.
Shoreline
Yvonne and Alison at the Southeast Lighthouse
Mohegan Bluffs stairway
At the Viewing Platform at Mohegan Bluffs
Bucolic farmlands and rolling hills
Many Marinas and restaurants at New Harbor on the Great Salt Pond
Alison and Yvonne did not know that it was time for a Mudslide but Edie and Gloria did!
A walk along the cliff at Clay Head Nature Trail
Yvonne puts her toes in the Atlantic, she liked it!
Dinner at Dead Eye Dick's. Lobster Roll for Y & A!
Saturday Block Island Farmer's Market Â
The National Hotel in New Shoreham
View from the porch
Y and A have a cool one.
Dinner at The Beachhead, margaritas for G & E
And another lobster roll for A & Y
The Block Island Beach House from the beach side, see the ferry at port.
Long shadows, long lives and happy to be together again!
Sunset over the Pond
New Shoreham Library
The driveway leads to a right-of-way to town from Edie's property
In the kitchen
Sitting room
Very attractive and comfortable
Leaving the Island on Sunday, Thanks so much Edie and Gloria for feeding us, driving us all over the island and showing us a wonderful time!
From the deck of the High Speed Ferry to Newport RI
Entering Newport Harbor, that is Fort Adams State Park, site of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals
Coming in to the dock
View from a seafood restaurant
On the Schooner Aquidneck for a sail around the Bay
The guide told us this was JFK's favorite sailboat
The guide, a nice sight as well
Hammersmith, Jackie Kennedy's childhood summer home
County Court House on Washington Square
Many very old houses and buildings
Alison photograping the neighborhood streets
We took a self-guided tour and stopped at many informational plaques
Entrance to The Breakers, Vanderbilt summer "cottage" built in 1893
125,339 square feet, 5 floors, 70 rooms
The Great Hall
The Acorn is the Vanderbilt symbol, this is floor tile
The Music Room
Alison in the Music Room
View across the 2nd level, above the Great Hall, and out to the Terrace and the Atlantic
Mr. V's bath
We liked the long handled hangers- for the ladies long dresses.
The kitchen is gorgeous.
Copper pots galore on a 20 foot long cast iron stove top
Two large ovens
The Butler's Pantry, many sets of dishes
Need to ring the servants?
On the grounds
Neo-Italian Renaissance style. The interior decor is French, reserved, not Victorian.
View from the porch
We walked the Cliff Walk back into town.
Nice to have a cooler day and not so much sun for a walk.
We liked this house and then figured out it is a carriage house at the entrance to an estate.
The Redwood Library and Athenaeum, a rare book repository founded in 1747
The original collection is in cages
Touro Synagogue, the oldest Synagogue in the U.S.
The Friends Meeting Hall
William Ellery Channing house, formost Unitarian preacher in his day
Channing statue near the Old Stone Mill
Channing Memorial Church
Examples of Colonial and Georgian houses
Church where JFK and Jackie wed
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