Kenneth Proudfoot

FRIDAY NIGHT: On the 50th anniversary of the grand opening of the Newport Pell Bridge – June 28, 1969 – the City-by-the-Sea will celebrate with a big party at Fort Adams on Friday, June 28th, beginning at 6pm. The party will continue until 10pm. Visitors and residents will enjoy a free concert by the aptly […]

Tonight, the Newport Historical Society launches a new annual recognition and makes the first History Starts Here Award to “Story in the Public Square.” This TV show is hosted by Jim Ludes, Executive Director of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University, and G. Wayne Miller, senior staff writer at The Providence Journal. This event […]

This weekend we’ll focus on hosting our neighbors and friends and all those who live in Newport County with free admission to the Newport Mansions and other similar sites.  There will be Secret Garden Tours in the Point neighborhood of Newport all weekend. We’ll also turn out to watch the 165th Annual Regatta from the […]

We have another exciting weekend (& week!) ahead of us.  Tell your guests and visitors about the first big cup race of the season and a pair of special car events at the island’s two fabulous car museums.   CARS-CARS-CARS: The Audrain Automobile Museum and Marble House host the month’s first CARS & COFFEE on […]

A great summer sporting season in Newport is set to begin with International Polo and Collegiate Baseball! POLO: Since the founding of America’s first polo club in Newport in 1876, polo has been associated with this city and has enjoyed an international reputation as the premiere club on Aquidneck Island. This Saturday (June 1st), the […]

There are three fun events this week for everyone who loves art and history and a good story. The National Museum of American Illustration will open its new exhibit, Norman Rockwell & His Contemporaries: Fabulous Forties to Sensational Sixties, today (May 23rd). The museum, located at 492 Bellevue Avenue, is open Thursdays-Sundays: 11 am – […]

Tonight (Thursday) marks this month’s first Newport Gallery Night. Many of the art galleries in the city are open, with free admission. If the weather cooperates, it will be a grand evening for strolling, viewing, perhaps even purchasing some beautiful art. The event runs from 5 pm until 8 pm.   This weekend, Belcourt of […]

This Saturday, May 4th, offers visitors a two-for-one special as the previously scheduled “Driving Miss Daffodil” Classic Car Parade leaves at 8 am from Easton’s Beach and meets up with a special “Cars & Coffee” showcase event at Fort Adams. Cars and spectators will begin gathering at the beach at 7 am and the parade […]

This Sunday the 28th winds up the 2019 Newport Arboretum Week. It has been a wonderfully wet event this year with so much rain and wind, but most of the amateur botanists and diehard tree lovers have been in their glory exploring a seemingly endless variety of trees throughout the city. There’s still time to […]

This is an exciting week in Newport with several big events on tap for visitors and residents alike. First, the Newport Art Museum (76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport) will open a one-of-a-kind sculpture exhibit on Friday, April 19th. The exhibit, “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture,” will showcase many of the artist’s rarely seen works from private collections. […]

Newport will celebrate and welcome the blooming of a million-plus yellow daffodils this week with the start of the 6th Annual Newport Daffodil Days Festival, April 13 through the 21st.  The celebration kicks off with opening ceremonies at 1:00 PM at Clarke Cooke House on Bannister’s Wharf. Join your fellow Newport residents, visitors, and guests […]

The Newport Restoration Foundation’s mansion, Rough Point (680 Bellevue Avenue, Newport), re-opened for the 2019 season on Tuesday, April 2. There is some lower admission pricing and a new exhibition, “Beyond Fortune: The Life & Legacy of Doris Duke.” This exhibit will continue through November 17, 2019. Information and tickets are available at 401/847-8344; newportrestoration.org. […]

A new exhibit opening this week at Rosecliff is sure to please our guests who are outdoorsy and nature lovers. Titled, “JOHN JAMES AUDUBON: OBSESSION UNTAMED,” it opens on Saturday, March 30th in the second-floor exhibition hall at Rosecliff (548 Bellevue Avenue, Newport). This new exhibit promises to be something special. A longer description of […]

The St. Patrick’s Day Parade is over, but the celebrating continues as Spring has finally arrived and there is a hint of warmer weather to come. It is a season that seems to produce in each of us a measure of optimism and hope. The winter snows and biting cold winds may not be completely […]

Are you ready? This week marks the biggest event of the month with the 63rd Annual Newport St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 16th.  It steps off from Newport City Hall promptly at 11:00 am.  Prognosticators are predicting warmer weather than we’ve had the past two weeks. Dress appropriately, but don’t miss this citywide […]

It’s official!  The entire month of March is Newport Irish Heritage Month!  This is the 42nd year of this recognition and celebration of “All Things Irish.” Throughout the month – March 1-31 – we celebrate traditional Irish music and dance, food, history tours, lectures, and many more activities throughout our city. The biggest event of […]

Two big citywide events — Newport County Days & the Newport Winter Festival – will bring new visitors and increase attendance at our Gilded Age mansions and historic sites in February. For residents, there is free admission at the Newport Mansions during this entire weekend (See listing below).  For everyone else, there is the upcoming […]

There may be snow by the time you read this, but this is still a good time to re-visit Newport and Aquidneck Island by car. It’s a quiet time on the island, and the traffic is but a memory of the summer past.  Of course, there are so many neat places to explore! Before you […]

Earlier this week (Tuesday), Fodor’s Travel told the world what we have known all along — Newport is one of “New England’s Most Picturesque Towns!” Although we are the City of Newport, we do feel more like a town.  Our neighboring town of Bristol, just north and across the Mt. Hope Bridge, also made the […]

The coming year – 2019 – promises lots of activities, fun events, and a full schedule of lectures, harbor tours, regattas, art exhibits, classes, auto exhibits, polo, flower shows, and food festivals. As always, there will be something for everyone all during the year. Be sure to keep up with the changing and growing schedule […]

The Newport Mansions and many other historic sites had a banner week the last week of December. Record crowds were recorded at The Breakers, Marble House, and other tourist favorites around the city.  On December 28th, the Preservation Society of Newport County also reported they had delivered over one million tours, with still a few […]