Stone House
Yesterday I had a look inside and out of an old stone house called Rough Point, so named due to its location out on the rocky cliff of Newport, at the edge of the sea. It looks very English, and is quite large. Walking the Cliff Walk of Newport will take one right past it on the surf side. The sea was true to the name, rough breakers crashing over the rocks. The wealthy heiress Doris Duke, who lived there until the 1990′s, swam the rough waters as a routine. She also had stockade fencing, barbed wire and solid steel gates surrounding the property, and a few formidable looking dogs roaming it as well, making only distant glimpses possible until recently. It was strange at first to be there, as I remember it only as a fortress. Inside it is filled with art and unusual objects. I will return to do more drawing and painting in the coming weeks.
