Newport then off to Connecticut

We tour Newport today on a very nice guided tour by the ACME tour company, the principal tour guide being Carolyn Earle. Our first stop is the Newport Yacht Club, made famous in Australia as the hosts where America first lost the America's Cup Yacht Race.

We then look at a quirky sculpture (Ted gets into the picture), an interesting but quite useless stone structure and a cast off memorial stone for JFK.

Stone tower

Memorial stone for JFK

Newport held the forerunner of what is now known as the US Open, and the legacy and history is housed in the International Tennis Hall of Fame located at the Newport Casino, not a gambling casino but a club which once hosted the rich and famous of Newport society. Here is held the only grass court tournament in the USA, one week after Wimbledon. The Hall of Fame houses a large amount of tennis memorabilia, plus a room showing all of the inductees, including Australian players such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Margaret Court, etc.

Being Sunday we're off to church but with a difference. We have a tour of the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in the USA built in 1759-1763. Very interesting both the history and the information in the museum.

A couple more sights then we say good bye to Newport, and in a short time, also Rhode Island. We have moved into Connecticut. A whole new state of things to see before us!