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By Lorraine Balint

SEAVIEW, ESSEX, and NEWPORT 1999

• Our intrepid group exploring Seaview: notice the broken pilasters on the small balcony
• Beautiful tilework near the entrance in the great foyer
• One of the better-preserved chandeliers at Seaview
• Is it Carolyn's balcony? Or Juliet's?
• Never shown on DS, this smaller tower has a pretty intriguing legend attached to it, about a philandering husband with a wife at one end of the house and a hot Rapunzel just up the tower steps!
• These moldings look vaguely like David Henesy, dontcha think?
• Treacherous in spots, but not like a drop off Widows' Hill!
• An ethereal picture of the smaller tower at sunset
• Angelique's nightshade growing at "Collinwood"--- one of two varieties there, plus witches' tansy and Virgin's Bower clematis!
• Some of the slate shingles can be seen
• Near the grand entrance, you can't see the debris dumped from the windows by the dormitory residents
• Football equipment and trash on the lawn of "Collinwood"
• A "hallway to nowhere"--- actually, to the music rooms
• This way, you can't see the football scrimmage equipment strewn on the lawn!
• A most unusual decoration on the stairwell, with whimsical embellishments by Salve Regina's students
• The area most familiar to DS fans
• A most obtrusive way to mount a light fixture--- in Cecelia Hall
• A noble effort to restore the ceiling molding
• Decorating the passage from the grand foyer to Cecelia Hall--- musicians once played from the tiny balcony
• Formerly open from grand apartments on second floor
• One of the formerly exquisitely-carved fireplaces
• Only traces of the beauty of the fireplace in the great tower room remain
• A life-sized statue, half-hidden by stacks of new dorm mattresses
• "David's" tower room, now a dorm room
• MOI, "tickling the ivories" in one of the music rooms
• Ornate ironwork and oddly-placed columns decorate a backstairs foyer
• Oblong stained-glass windows he stairwell off the main foyer; a chipped column in what used to be a chapel; a parquet floor
• The elaborate stained-glass windows in the great foyer, reproduced for DS
• The Great house at sunset; a small cottage across the way; an old, hidden designation for the small estate across the lane
• Bobubas, where for art thou? Gooie contemplates, and Seaview becomes a Lorraine "joint."
• Bannister's Wharf, Newport, RI, home of the "Blue Whale"---the Black Pearl Restaurant
• Actually, a sperm whale mural on the back of a wharf restaurant
• What the ocean hath wrought upon an innocent piece of driftwood.
• Statue in the heart of downtown Newport
• With some of the gang at the Black Pearl; Bob walks the wharf looking like a secret agent with those shades; Too many impatiens!
• The real sign of the Black Pearl Restaurant
• I hang out at the "blue Whale"; I point out what we thought was "Windcliff"; and try to rescue those feet in that Newport statue.
• The front, back, and a detail of the most famous of the Newport "cottages"
• The so-called "Evans cottage", built ca. 1810, and the LONG Griswold Inn, aka "Collinsport Inn"