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Cardines Field the GREEN LIGHT x : : ‘1 7 1 c G R E E K LIGHT Bu l l e t i n oe T h e P o i n t A s s o c i a t i o n OF N e w p o r t, TTh o d e I s l a n d Summer 1997 Cardines Field The GREEN LIGHT XLII No. 2 Summer 1997 Features Green Light President’s Letter 3 A c tin g E d ito ria l B o a r d Beth Cullen (848-2945) Amistad 4 Rowan Howard (847-8428) Kay O’Brien (847-7311) Point Association News 8 Anne Reynolds (847-2009) Dorothy Holt Manuel 9 Advertising and Word P ro c e ssin g Sue Gudikunst (849-4367) Cardines Field 10 B o a r d Liaiso n Star of the Sea Update 12 Beth Cullen (848-2945) 420 World Sailing Championship 14 Circulation Beverly Adler (846-1142) Photo Credits: Kay O’Brien (847-7311) JoyScott Roberto Bessin Tama Sperling (847-4986) Laura Jenifer Mike Cullen Paul Quatracci War College Museum Copies of theGreen Light may be purchased for A rt W ork: $1.00 at Bucci’s Convenience Store; Poplar and Dorothy Sanschagrin Thames; Aidinoff’s Liquor and Gourmet Shop, Eleanor Weaver Warner Street; Clipper W ine & Spirits, Third Street; The Rum Runner, Goat Island; and The Walnut Front Cover: Market, Third & Walnut. Photo of Dorothy Manuel painting The Point Association Board Officers Committees Coles Mallory, President Adventure Club Noise Abatement (849-5659) Beth Lloyd (849-8071) Mike Cullen (848-2945) Donna Segal, P' Vice President Beautification Nominating (848-7088) Deborah Herrington (848-9735) Christine Montanaro (849-4708) Anne Bidstrup, 2"'' Vice President Paul & Nancy Quatrucci (846-2434) Phone (849-1354) Green Lisht Anne Bidstrup (849-1354) Loretta Goldrick, Corresponding Beth Cullen (848-2945) Publicity Secretary (849-9425) History and Archives Dick & Cheryl Poholek (849-3411) Ben Gilson, Recording Secretary Marjorie Magruder (849-3045) Traffic (847-9243) Membershin Mark Williams (849-1319) Philip Mosher, Treasurer Nancy Espersen (846-2907) Waterfront (849-4708) Don Dery (847-8351) Board meetings are scheduled fo r the first Monday o f the Month, 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s Guild Hall and are open to association members. If you have a concern that you would like the board to address, please call Coles prior to the meeting. \ J The President’s Letter Spring is always a special time on the Point. Our streets are ablaze with flowering trees, the bulbs we planted last fall brighten our gardens, the cold northwest wind gives way to a gentler sea breeze, and watching our neighbors work on their houses encourages us to do the same. The pride all of you take in our neighborhood manifests itself in weeding, and scraping, and pruning, and cleaning - small ordinary tasks that taken together by neighbors make the Point a glorious place to live. One of the missions of the Point Association is to ensure that our membership is an “informed voting body.” To this end, we recently con­ ducted three public forums on important issues facing Newport - the middle-school proposal, the Foundation for Newport’s transportation plan, and the Star of the Sea’s proposal for the former Cenacle/Corpus Christi property. All three forums were well attended and generated lively discussion and excellent questions. Your continued comments will be important as decisions are made on these issues in the coming months. The Board established two new committees to deal with specific issues facing the Point. The HarborA/Vaterfront Committee, led by Don Dery, will track the development of the Harbor Management Plan and the Newport Marine Facilities project, as well as activities of the Waterfront Commission and the State Coastal Resources Management Council. The Noise Abatement Committee, led by Mike Cullen, will deal with the development of City noise regulations and events that create noise on the Point. If you are interested in either of these issues, call Don or Mike. They need broad participation on their committees. The Green Light does not just happen. It takes an enormous amount of hard work by a team of dedicated Point residents. Year after year, they have made the Green Light Newport’s premier journal and a clarion voice for our neighborhood. Understandably, some of our hardest workers need a break; we need some fresh energy and enthusiasm. If you are interested in helping write or edit theGreen Light, please call me at 849-5659. We need your help! The Green Light • Sum m er 1997 A m is ta d Spring 1997 burst upon Newport in a wonderfully un­ hours getting dressed, which included being laced into precedented way. The months of March and (early) April a corset and having my hair curled, sprayed an d twisted were dominated by a veritable plethora of activity atten­ into a bun, I w as sent to a ‘holding area ’ with a ll o f the dant upon the shooting of Steven Spielberg’s latest film, extras. There I w a ited with anticipation fo r the better Am istad. part o f the day. / did not go hungry because Spielberg Inspired by the well documented mid-nineteenth cen­ travels with his own caterer w ho creates a wonderful tury rebellion of Africans aboard a slave ship, director smorgasbord fo r the cast and crew. The day wore on Spielberg chose several eastern seaboard cities, including and I discovered at 5:00p.m. that I would not be needed. our own, in which to film his interpretation of this real-life I w as told that I was not used, alon g with a handful of drama. other women, because we The DreamWorks were too young. I guess I crew began preparing the sh o u ld have considered way for the eventual dis­ this a compliment, never­ play of “lights, camera, ac­ theless I w a s d is a p ­ tion” as Queen Anne and pointed. Washington squares were Several days later I gradually transformed into was called to do a scene appropriate-to-the-period in Boston. After being sets. People from all over p ro m ised that I would be town and beyond con­ part o f a scene, I agreed verged to watch the prison to go. After spending two appear and the pavement hours getting ready, an disappear. There was this hour of which was spent lovely, magical sense of having my hair tugged on everything and everyone by an a m a te u r h a ir ­ moving back in time. dresser, I was whisked o ff The Point, too, be­ to the steps o f the State came the focus for a scene House to take part in a shot at St. John’s Church scene which was being re­ on Washington St., and hearsed. Martin several of our very own VanBuren was campaign­ Pointers were involvedin ing fo r P re sid e n t and I various aspects of the film­ was part o f a group o f his ing both here and in Mys­ supporters. We w ere each tic, Connecticut, as well as given an Americanflag to Boston, Massachusetts. wave and instructed to Here are their stories, told cheer loudly. It w as a Jay Ostrowski and Steven Spielberg in their own words... damp and rainy day in “A crack o f daw n casting c a ll... a disappointing d rive Boston and everyone was feeling chilled. However, af­ to Mystic ... a successful Nineteenth Century P resid en ­ ter doing this scene about six times we were beginning tial rally in Boston. My experience in Amistad was a to get warm. Spielberg was friendly and down-to-earth. glim pse into the highs and lows o f making a H ollyw ood Once this scene was completed we were told that all o f blockbuster. Although the movie was largely film ed in the women could leave since the next scene would be in the parks and squares ofNewport, my opportunity came the House o f Representatives and women were not al­ in two scenes film ed out o f town. I received a ca ll to go lowed. (I am glad that I was not a woman during the to M ystic where the Supreme Court scenes were being 1840’s.) Although the time spend doing this scene was shot. I w as told I would be an extra in the courtroom. I short and I am not certain that I w ill even be seen when was looking forward to seeing firsthand Anthony Hopkins the movie is released, I am grateful to have been a part and Morgan Freeman at work. After spending about two o f the film in g o f Amistad. ” by Laura Jenifer The Green Light • Summer 1997 Roberto Bessin of Second St.did get to Mystic and vest, a gray fro ck coat anda bright green stove-pipe top gives us a picture of what it was like working there with the hat) and then get checked out by ‘H a ir and M akeup. ’ Amistad crew... (They usually left me alone.) We ‘background artists’took “I had givenup hope o f being called as an extra and our orders from was going to g et a haircut when I got called. What a the numerous thrill it was, to be a sm all part o f the Spielberg produc­ Production Assis­ tion! Over three days at M ystic Seaport, I toiled as a tants (PA’s), who harbor worker from 1839.
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