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Newport Polo has named the Jeffrey Osborne Foundation as the beneficiary of the Bon Voyage Ball – the polo club’s 20th annual charity gala – on Friday, August 6, 2021 at Rosecliff, one of Newport’s famed Bellevue Avenue mansions.
“I am honored and grateful to Newport Polo for having selected the Jeffrey Osborne Foundation to be the beneficiary of the proceeds derived from its charity gala auction. The proceeds will help support and continue our mission of creating equal opportunity for all who strive to better themselves,” said Jeffrey Osborne, Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, Rhode Island son and founder of the Jeffrey Osborne Foundation. “My family and I are humbled and thankful that Newport Polo recognizes the Jeffrey Osborne Foundation’s efforts, including $1.5 million dollars raised and distributed to organizations that support the needs of Rhode Islanders who are not as fortunate to have the same opportunities and financial
PORTSMOUTH After hiking most of the winter on Rhode Island’s mainland, I traveled to Aquidneck Island to explore a different landscape. I was not disappointed by the beautiful scenery and the history.
The Gentleman Farms owned in the late 1800s by the Vanderbilt, Taylor and Barstow families stretched as far as the eye could see and down gentle, green slopes to the Sakonnet River.
The stone walls, farm lanes, cart paths, sweeping fields and other evidence of the land’s rich past are still visible while walking the Sakonnet Greenway Trail.
The greenway includes 10 miles of public trails that loop through woods, pastures and marshland and around a golf course, soccer fields and still-active farms.