Excerpt from A Trip Across the Bay, And, Some Early Schools and Schoolmasters of Newport
What is across the bay from Newport? Nowadays, any one will immediately say Jamestown.
But in those days which I am trying to recall, we would have answered Conanicut! Because to us, Jamestown was a very insignificant part of an alluring wild island, holding limitless possibilities of adventure. But why should my father, Joseph Wharton, have moved from the comforts of Newport to the wild island of Conanicut? Perhaps I had better first explain why he moved each summer from Philadelphia to Newport.
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