Newport, Rhode Island:  It is easy to see why early settlers decided this was a place where natives living here could be pushed back into the interior of the country.  It is also easy to see why wealthy people build fantastic summer palaces on the hillsides around the harbor.  It is easy to see why the Kennedy family settled here and became a sailing family.  It is easy to see how and why that family and other families of wealthy people would spend as much time here as possible.  

For even people who are not wealthy, Newport seen from the deck of a cruise ship is beautiful. America is a place where people who are not wealthy can see that beauty and can enjoy and can think of as theirs what the early settlers stole from the native Americans.  Important to  remember is that what we see and enjoy in this country once was home to people who were pushed out of the beauty and into harsher living conditions.  Undoubtedly what we see in this beautiful place from the deck of a cruise ship seems to us to be more beautiful than the reality of it is from wherever it is in the area people go about living their every-day lives.  Asi es la vida.