Secret Providence & Newport: The Unique Guidebook to Providence and Newport’s Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes - ECW Press

Secret Providence & Newport: The Unique Guidebook to Providence and Newport’s Hidden Sites, Sounds, & Tastes

Rogers, Barbara Radcliffe

$8.95
  • Secret™ Providence & Newport is a new travel book that reveals the best-kept secrets of two cities steeped in American history. Providence’s consuming passion is food. One of the most prestigious training grounds for American chefs — Johnson and Wales — is in Downcity (Providence's term for downtown). After a succulent dinner at one of the city’s charming little restaurants, visit the garden where Edgar Allan Poe courted and won the heart of Sarah Whitman, or find hidden places to have a picnic and enjoy the flowers.

    Newport’s past and present are quite different from those of Providence. A great colonial seaport, it was a major stop on the northern tip of the deadly — but profitable — Triangle Trade. During the Revolution, the city was occupied by the British, who left a set of vaulted brick barracks that most Newporters don’t even know exist. But for all its fascinating colonial history, Newport carved its niche as the summer home of Gilded Age society. Few people have seen the views from the rooftop of a Bellevue Avenue palace but you might be able to with the help of this guide.

    Secret™ Providence/Newport is one of a unique series of in-depth guidebooks that take you off the tired track of mainstream tourism. This guide is a gem for anyone eager to discover the unconventional.

  • Barbara Radcliffe Rogers and Juliette Rogers have traveled and worked together since their first collaboration on a book about the Galapagos Islands. Juliette’s specialty is food and Barbara’s is travel. Barbara is co-author of the 320-page guidebook The Rhode Island Guide and author of New Hampshire Off the Beaten Path (2000) and Massachusetts Off the Beaten Path (2000). They are both members of the Society of American Travel Writers, Travel Journalists Guild, International Food, and Wine and Travel writers.

  • Published: April 2002

    ISBN: 9781550224900

    Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.

    Pages: 300

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