NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND IS MY BEAUTIFUL HOME

I love where I live. I live here . . . on Aquidneck Island, situated in Narragansett Bay, which is pictured below in the background with the Newport Bridge. This is a small seaside town on the Atlantic Ocean. In the very small state of Rhode Island, USA. I wasn't born here, but I moved here my second year of teaching in 1973. I love Al Green,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=43L5LauVUaQ
Al Green ~ Let's stay together

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Tgm7v284JI
AL GREEN ~ Take Me To The River

so I decided to go to the Newport Jazz Festival this past summer. Parked my car and took the water ferry over to Fort Adams. I hadn't been for a long time, so I was surprised to learn that I had to make choices this time because there were three stages with performances all going on at the same time. Pleased that there are many uploaded youtubes from this year's festival, since I haven't taken the time to upload my video yet.

This is the Newport Jazz Festival ~ Sunday, August 12, 2007. Headliners were Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band, Paquito D'Rivera's Panamericana, Susan Tedeschi, Al Green and BB King. I took only video of Al Green.

Susan Tedeschi in Newport August 12, 2007

http://youtube.com/watch?v=58BbRRZnzo4
Susan Tedeschi band playing from front of stage at Newport, RI jazz festival.

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Susan Tedeschi ~ Hurt So Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y
Rhythm & Roots Festival. Charlestown
This is also in Rhode Island and was on September 1, 2007.

BB King

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UAtxlvFOg-E
Paquito D'Rivera and Panamericana August 12, 2007 signing his CDs


http://youtube.com/watch?v=oaxOrcYGe6s
JAZZ FESTIVAL NEWPORT 2007
The New Bossa Nova,
Luciano Souza, Romano Lubamba, Edward Simon

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NWqO85P6Y
Al Green People Get Ready

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Come visit a beautiful place that once was the home of

Native Americans

The Tribes of Rhode Island

http://omp.gso.uri.edu/doee/history/nativeam/na2.htm

At first, the Native Americans were disposed kindly toward the European colonists. Their feeling was reflected, in June of 1636, in the Narragansetts' famous greeting to Roger Williams: "What cheer, Netop (friend)." Yet, in only 40 years, friendship between the races was to deteriorate into hostility and war.

In the early 1600s, an estimated 30,000 Indians roamed the dense forests and coastal plains of southern New England. In what is now Rhode Island, some 4,000 were Narragansetts (People of the Small Point) and 1,500 were Wampanoags (Eastern People). . . . . .

It is estimated that there were 4,000 Narragansetts before King Phillip's War. Of them, 3,500 were either killed or sold into slavery and exported. The surviving 500 were relegated to servitude within the colony.

Rhode Island Indian Tribes

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/rhodeisland/index.htm

American Indian Genocide Museum
http://www.aigenom.com/

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For Darfur, For Humanity

Call 1~800~GENOCIDE
next week
Ask your U.S. Representative and Senators to pass the funding fully
for the UN Peacekeepers for Darfur

President Bush's Comment Phone Line
202-456-1111
He needs a push to do something right.

Thank You!


OBAMA in '08
I am gathering signatures in Rhode Island December 8 to put Barack Obama
on the Rhode Island Primary Ballot

Come and join me help in New Hampshire:
http://nh.barackobama.com/page/content/nhhome