St Georges High School - Lance Yearbook (Middletown, RI)

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KING HALL,-VIEW FROM 'BALCONY

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ifinliimga- e HAT pleasant and enduring memories they bring up! Where along the New England coast is there a richer variety of places in which to spend a holiday? Long beaches, peaceful woods, indented bays! VVe are really blessed in our surroundings. And, although we do not get away from our hill-top too often, we have all come to be familiar with the country around the shores of Narragansett Bay and the Sakonnet River. For here are our favorite picnic grounds, Jamestown and S iunderstown on one side, and Vaucluse and Sakonnet on the other. A A trip to Saunderstowu by launch or by ferry takes us by the U. S. Naval Stations-the Torpedo Station, where are always to be seen torpedo boats and submarines, the Naval War College, the most advanced school for studying naval strategy in this country, the Training Station, where thousands of American boys are trained every year for the navy, past Fort Adams and Fort Greble to the quiet little town of Saunderstown. Here we land and find our picnic ground in the midst of chestnut and oak woods. From here, while lunch is getting ready, we walk through the woods to Narrow River, a long inlet of the ocean, where we have a swim. How good the sandwiches and coffee, the sausages and fried bacon taste after the plunge in the river! G11 the return to Newport we visit one of the big battleships that is generally to be seen in the harbor, and then, after a stop at Lorah's, all return to school. C In the Spring Vaucluse is tl1e most popular picnic ground. To get there horses, bicycles, boats are all put into requisition. This old estate is about live miles from the school. Those who go by boat land at the beach where we have luncheon, while walkers and riders approach by way of tl1e old house and garden, once kept up, but 11ow literally falling to pieces and overgrown. Here used to live one of Rhode Island's most distinguished families, but a solitary farmer and his hens are now the sole occupants. The old house, formerly a line example of the Southern Colonial style of architecture, still faces the garden with its trees an:l shrubs untouched, and its plths almost indistinguishable. Be- yond the garden the gloomy pond where story says that a fair daughter of the house once drowned herselfj Between the garden and the shore sloping fields lead down to the be ich. Gu the scattered trees of this slope the lonely osprey likes to build its nest. If weather conditions are right we can cross over the Sakonnet Passage. In the woods beyond holly grows in abundance, and more than once its bright red berries have adorned our halls at Christmas time. To some, holiflays will recall a small island, reached by sail boat or by launch, in the middle of Narragansett Bay, where a few fishermen live in the midst of flowering apple orchards. Some will remember the races on Third Beach or near Flint Rock at Jamestown. Others will recall tl1e big guns of Fort Wetlierill, under whose very muzzles we sometimes eat our lunch. Still others, whose memories go further back, will think of the Life Saving Station on the most exposed point of Newport, or Lawton's Valley further up the island. t To all a St. George's holiday means a precious memory of school years. , S. P. C. II7

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