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Newport Daily News
NEWPORT Although the staff at OceanCliff Resort had decorated the ballroom with white table cloths, delicate flower bouquets, ornate dining chairs and a marble wedding cake, no one on Tuesday was getting married. Instead, the setup is a part of an ongoing effort to reopen Rhode Island’s struggling wedding industry.
“The biggest thing is keeping people safe, but letting people be able to celebrate again, and also putting people back to work,” said Luke Renchan, a spokesman for The Rhode Island Coalition of Wedding and Event Professionals. “Some of these couples have postponed their wedding three times because of a lot of these heavy restrictions. It s just a matter of showing what we can do to keep people safe and keep them in a structured environment.”
Rhode Island Rescues
Photograph by Gavin Ashworth. All photographs courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island.
The story of the Preservation Society begins with the mission to rescue Hunter House (Fig. 1) and the question put to financier George Henry Warren Jr. after its purchase by his wife, Katherine Warren: “Well, you’ve got this house, now what are you going to do with it?”
In 1945, Newport stone carver John Howard Benson became alarmed that Hunter House a rare surviving waterfront property with deep ties to Newport’s history might be irretrievably lost. The residence was no longer needed by the Rhode Island Catholic Diocese, which had used it for a convent, and its survival was in jeopardy. So concerned was Benson that he and John Perkins Brown, whose Georgian Society also wished to save Hunter House, decided to speak with the Warrens. Benson and Brown traveled to the couple’s winter residence in New York City to warn, “the grea
Newport Life magazine
Strolling downtown Newport any weekend last summer, you’d never know a global pandemic was wreaking financial havoc on the city. Streets were crowded with cars, pedestrians shuffled along sidewalks and wharves, while restaurants and retail shops were bustling.
But busy-ness doesn’t beget business. While the sheer number of visitors to our City by the Sea looked high, the numbers paled in comparison to years past. And tourists didn’t spend enough to bail out the community’s retail, restaurant and event sectors from the three-month quarantine hole and its roller coaster aftermath. While some businesses, including Griswold’s Tavern, faced such hardship that they closed permanently, others like the Fifth Element and Samuel Durfee House Inn remain cautiously optimistic. Some, like Groovy Gator and Conanicut Marine, expanded operations. Meanwhile, the events industry is on thin ice as winter’s quiet season brings no surefire solution.
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