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Article: TRAVEL: Well, did you ever? What a swell place for a jazz festival Newport's celebrity guest list includes JFK, Bob Dylan and Louis Armstrong. Richard Gilbert joins the party
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2003
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Memories of two classic films with outstanding music drew me to
Newport, Rhode Island. High Society, with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby
and Frank Sinatra, and Cole Porter's score, is set in Newport during
the preparations for a society wedding. Jazz on a Summer's Day, the
best jazz film ever, is a documentary of the 1958 Newport Jazz
Festival.
I also had distant memories of the Kennedy links with Newport.
Jackie married John F Kennedy here and her childhood home was used as
the summer White House. Its unlikely name, Hammersmith Farm, is a
reminder of Rhode Island's colonial past and in Newport I saw
signposts to Bristol, Portsmouth and Tiverton.
Rhode Island, nicknamed Little Rhody, is ...
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