It was shaded bytallcoconut palms that were bentbythe trade wind and on the ocean side you could walk out of the door and down the bluffacross the white sand and into the GulfStream.
Which it does: serene views of Little Narragansett Bay and Block Island Sound, spotless white-sand beaches, and a newly rebuilt, grand inn atop a scenic bluff, the Ocean House, which for decades had stood as a neglected sentinel, a reminder of grander times past.