Newport a place founded to end religious contention in the New World

This monarch butterfly was in the synagogue gardens, Newport.

It was in Newport I saw a Monarch or Milkweed butterfly. It was fluttering about in the garden of the synagogue. I had been assured by my friends I would see plenty of these large butterflies on the East Coast of America, but this one proved to be the only one I saw except for the one in New York. One memory of New York I have not yet shared on this blog was an incident on the way back to Arcadia from the Chrysler building along 42nd Street. It was the rush hour and there were a lot of people about, when suddenly, a small oriental woman darted towards a rubbish bin (it's called trash over there) and started ferreting around in it feverishly. After she had added to her bag of empty cans, she dashed to the next one and crossed the street with us. Unfortunately her bag of cans got wrapped around a lamp post on the other side of the street and entangled with the camera bag of one of us, also wrapped around the lamp post. I was slightly behind and saw the tussle between the two of them, she thinking her booty was being lifted off her and the other thinking the bag was being snatched. After the tussle, both succeeded in saving their bags and the little oriental scavenger beetled down the street to the next bin as fast as she could. We arrived back on Arcadia about afternoon tea time. One of our little treats on the ship was to go to Cafe Vivo and have cappuccinos or a pot of tea and a snack. As we were to dine at 6.30, Cafe Vivo was ideal for a little something to tide us over until our evening meal. The friendly staff got to know us and our regular order. We left Newport for Boston. I had looked forward to the trip to Boston for months. As a tour guide I take regular tours in Lavenham in Suffolk, where the Winthrop family built a large timber-framed house when they had become prosperous as skilled fullers in the Lavenham Blue Cloth trade. As a master fuller, Adam Winthrop became a member of the Fuller's Guild in the City of London and was prosperous enough to afford legal training for his son Adam, who also bought the manor of Groton in Suffolk. Adam Winthrop married into the family which owned the Manor of Edwardstone and had a son, John Winthrop, who founded the Massachusetts Bay Company, the Massachusetts Bay colony and was first governor of Massachusetts. I take a walk in Suffolk, England, from Boxford to Groton and back every year, from where the Winthrops and most of the village of Groton left for the New World on the Arbella in 1630. John Winthrop and other puritans took 800 people to found a Calvinist/puritan community in the New World. Their doctrine of a well ordered society and hard work laid the foundations for the prosperous city of Boston. I know well the place they left in the 1630s, I was excited by the prospect of seeing the place they emigrated to.