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A Newport socialite named Miss Edith Mortimer married Count Mario di Zoppola, an Itaiian aviator, in 1919, at her parents' country home in Wheatley Hills. Her mother was Eleanor Roosevelt's aunt. The Count and Countess di Zoppola divorced at Reno in 1929. In 1937, Cole Porter was badly injured while riding at Edith di Zoppola's Oyster Bay estate. Miss Mortimer seems to be enjoying "chair skating"? A G. MacCulloch Miller was mentioned winning a "toboggan challenge plate" in a winter sports event at Tuxedo Park in 1913. (George MacCulloch Miller had a daughter Edith too, but she announced her engagement in 1902.)

Looks like a better way to "skate," with less risk of falling. LOC: Spelling error: MacCulloch has an "a" in it.

Other Bain/LOC photos of the New York Yacht Club landing at Newport, Rhode Island:

"Newport will see a lot of the New York Yacht Club on its annual cruise, which will sail into Newport Harbor Aug. 9, on Friday, and remain until the following Monday morning. This means a round of social activity ashore and afloat." -----From a New York Times story (June 30, 1912) on the upcoming summer social season at the resort town of Newport, R. I.

It wasn't ever a windmill. Benedict Arnold was protecting its secrets when he identified it as such in his will of 1677. There are no historical records of it ever operating as a mill, nor was any evidence of milling discovered after an archeological excavation. The astronomical alignments designed into the tower have only come to light as of 2006, narrowing the focus of who might have possibly designed this thing, and for what purpose. The answer lies in John Dee, and the Elizabethan colonization attempt of 1583, which followed the (speculative) erection of the tower in 1582. The secrets of the tower lie in its horological properties, the gregorian calendar reform, the reformation, and the advent of new world colonization. If anyone's curious about more information, just give up. You'll spend a month reading, learn all about it, and when you try to explain, everyone will look at you like you're crazy. On the internet, people accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist, an occultist kook, an amateur fool who's been duped by some half-baked fringe history hypothesis.