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The Games Afoot

  • Island Cemetery Newport 30 Warner Street Newport, RI 02840 USA (map)

The Games Afoot

Session 3- The Games Afoot
from $15.00

March 12 and 15 (snow date 3/19, 322)

People have competed in sports from the beginning of time but in the 1800s many of the sports enjoyed today were created or enhanced. The city of Newport and its people were instrumental in this evolution with one person, James Gordon Bennett at the epicenter of most. This lecture will focus on Bennet and Newport’s role in tennis, golf, horse racing, yachting and others.

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