JOANNA BAKER DE NEUFVILLE ▲
CAITLIN HILL ▲
“My grandparents and their family, the Biddles (who were from Philadelphia), had summer houses on Beavertail Road, which is in Mackeral Cove. There’s a huge, beautiful house that was built by my great-great-great-grandfather, Joseph Wharton, and is still in our family: Horsehead. It’s a quaint town and doesn’t have all the tourists that you get in Newport, but the restaurants are great—a two-street town with beautiful houses on the rocks. It feels a little undiscovered. There’s the Conanicut Yacht Club there, but there isn’t a beach club or anything like that.”
“Jamestown offers the sense of comfort of a neighborhood— with all you favorite go-tos—in the form of a quaint seaside town! I love that I can walk through our backyard and head to the cheese shop for dinner-party provisions and be welcomed back by the owner, or scoot over to the Secret Garden knowing that my favorite flowers are awaiting me. Moreover, the people in Jamestown are united by their connection to the water and the simple things that many would consider some of the greatest luxuries in life.”