Paul K. wrote

I guess I was fortunate to spend lots of time in Newport. My Mom was from there and we would travel, which seemed like an eternity, there frequently when we were little kids to stay with the grandparents. Her father was a well known tailor in Newport and her brother was a heart surgeon equally known. This became the first connection. We traveled across the Jamestown bridge(completed in 1940) to the dock where the Ferry would take you across the bay to Newport. It was cool watching the water peeling along the side and when the waves hit the flat shore they would peel. The water was always gray -green and taking a car on a boat was the ultimate for a young boy! It was an hour one way.
Years later, the project began in 65/66 to connect Aquidneck Island by a large bridge. In 67, I was heading to the Newport Folk festival with Dave Napier to see Joni Mitchell, and the rest of the Folkies. We were awed by the half built project. I didn't realize that in a few years the Bridge would become my friend as I would travel weekly back and forth.
And it did become a friend. Ruggles and Little Compton became more realistic on June 28, 1969 when the Bridge finally opened. I traveled with Lynn the bikini surfer girl to one of my first, FIRST BEACH contest, that summer. We slept in the woods in an obscure area of Newport, getting ready for the red seaWEED DAWN PATROL AT First Beach. Will Jacobs had his third shop right there! Bill Bolender was king!
In the following years at Roger Williams, travel was never so easy with gas at 38 cents and a dorm room for play!
So youre driving home, its sunset and Rhode Islnad never felt so good!
Put this on your background and keep the faith!