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May 3rd, 2006

Newport, RI

This newsletter comes to you from Newport, RI, where we're trying to fit in a little R&R. We have done lots of the tourist stuff, and now know where to get the best clam chowder, and the best muffins! There's a great evening of Irish music at Celtica on Long Wharf, Saturdays from 5-8 pm, if you like that kind of music, with friendly people and Guinness on tap. The mansions are the ultimate in ostentation, but we found it very interesting to look in on how people such as the Vanderbilts spent their 6-8 week summer holidays in their little 138,000 square foot cottage, with only 33 staff to tend their needs.

But our heroine Ariel is always first and foremost on our minds, so we did a book-talk and signing at Fairfield Newport at Long Wharf on Tuesday evening.

Where We're Going...

Home again, home again, jiggity jog! We'll be leaving Rhode Island on Friday, and stopping overnight in Reading, PA, for a Cinco do Mayo party with one of Honora's daughters. Then we'll be back in the mid-west (Grayville, IL - it's almost exactly halfway between St. Louis and Louisville) for a month before we make a short trip to Austin, TX (more about that in the next newsletter!)