Word: newports
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Lisa M. Rama, public affairs officer at Naval Station Newport in Newport, R.I., said the police department had determined that the cannonball warranted a dispatch from the naval station’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team...
Presented annually since 1956 by the trustees of the Richards Free Library of Newport, N.H., the award is given to a person of literary stature whose body of work has exhibited a meaningful connection to New England...
...award presentation took place in the Newport Opera House, and Gates described it as “a very moving ceremony...
...love New England and I’ve been lucky enough to receive many awards, and this is really, truly one of the most memorable,” Gates told the nearly 400 locals of the Newport area who attended the ceremony...
...their repertoire purloined from Seeger and other traditionalists. Then one man suggested that the genre could be bigger. "The American public is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of folk music," said Albert Grossman, a Chicago entrepreneur, at the first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform with her friends Peter Yarrow and Noel Stookey; he took them on, changed Noel's name to Paul...