Ocean House Romantic Weekend Getaway
My romantic weekend getaway is Ocean House in the off-season, and it has now officially become a yearly winter tradition. It is simple and flirty [...]
My romantic weekend getaway is Ocean House in the off-season, and it has now officially become a yearly winter tradition. It is simple and flirty [...]
The Ocean House, located in Watch Hill RI, an affluent village of Westerly RI, is a true escape from reality, yet ironically reinstates simplicity. [...]
On September 21, 1938, a storm of biblical proportions slammed into the northeastern coast of the United States from South Jersey to Boston creating the [...]
The barren hill, with its views of three states and its use as a lookout going back before the French and Indian Wars, became [...]
If you walk out to the end of Napatree Point and take one of the trails that head into the interior you might come across [...]
So you think you know where Watch Hill is? Not so fast. I’m not talking about the village of Watch Hill but the actual hill. [...]
More than 100 years ago, on October 18, 1916, a great fire changed the face of Watch Hill forever and ended the era of the [...]
For more than 50 years, the Book & Tackle Shop at the end of Bay Street in Watch Hill delighted residents and visitors alike. The [...]
Read Part 1 first! "One of the unique characteristics of the Hurricane of 1938 was how rapidly it moved up the coast traveling at 50 [...]
Read Part I: The Collision First >> By 7:45 a.m. that morning, a large crowd of onlookers had gathered on East Beach and began to [...]
It was Friday, August 30, 1872, and the end of another idyllic summer in Watch Hill. The Ocean House and the other large hotels were [...]
I’m sitting at the stern of the charter boat Thunderfish owned by undersea explorer Captain Bill Palmer, looking at the shore of Watch Hill less [...]