Re: Inger's Newport Tower painting

Doug Weller wrote:
Inger has in the past claimed to have seen a painting of the Newport Tower
that was painted before Newport was founded. I have before said I thought
it was one of these but I don't think she has ever commented:
http://lithic.50g.com/ri.htm
http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/tower/frame2.htm

Doug
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Gosh, Doug, do you really think there's a mystery here? ;-)

That Redwood URL contains, in one caption, the following:

..."the Tower is, in fact, on a hill that, before Newport was
built up in colonial times, overlooked fields and the waters
of Narragansett Bay."

The phrase "before Newport was built up" clearly refers to the
HILL. But for a grammatically-challenged person who sees only
what she's looking for, it could only mean that the tower was
present, and, therefore, the picture was painted "before Newport
was founded". (Not the wackiest misinterpretation we've seen.)

I think we should hunt down the person who wrote that caption,
and beat a clarification out of him.

Or we could just decide that the discussion of watercolors really
has little or nothing to add to our understanding of archaeology.
Do you suppose we could just stop offering new threads about
this topic until some actual new evidence turns up?

Nah, didn't think so.

If Inger's actual source is otherwise, I will, of course, apologize
profusely.

Lloyd
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