Southern Rhode Island

Southern Rhode Island is a strange mix of commuter suburbs, back woods towns, fishing communities and tourist traps. In the winter much of the area is a ghost town; in the summer the beach traffic hardly moves. On one side of Newport is the country's largest concentration of wealth overlooking the Atlantic; on the other are trailer parks and housing projects. In places the natural beauty is astounding, in others it's a strip mall miles long that could be anywhere else in the US. I guess it's like a thousand other regions striving to keep up with sudden growth and an influx of tourism, and still retain its identity.

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The backyard	The front porch	Old school(?)
Thames Street	Santa Claus House	Rhode Island seafood buffet
Cupola	Bellevue Avenue	Agassiz Mansion
old money	Welcome to Rhode Island.	picnic by the sea
Bellevue Avenue	Castle Hill Cove	Agassiz Mansion
just some guy	Castle Hill Light	Castle Hill Cove
Agassiz Mansion	ultralight flight	ultralight flight
ultralight flight	Sunset over Narragansett Bay	Newport Bridge
Wickford House	Overgrown	Kingston Congregational
Kingston Congregational	Beavertail Light	Newport
Beavertail Light	Off to Work 2	Newport House
Off to Work	Father and Son	Lands End