View from our table on the deck.

The bar and deck at Eastside Restaurant, Newport, VT.

We were in Newport last night where The Hitmen were playing at Eastside Restaurant. We had dinner on the deck - we wondered if we might be rained out, but the showers held off nicely. The band, however, was wisely inside. That is not a great venue for them to be inside - the acoustics in the big,  low-ceilinged dining room isn't great because there is nothing to absorb sound so it bounces off the bare windows and walls. It works much better when they are out in the open or in an auditorium designed specifically for sound quality. We enjoyed them -

City Center shoreline, Lake Memphremagog

although we missed the set they did with some Beach Boys material that I'd been looking forward to hearing. They did some Beetles and we enjoyed that. The crowd had thinned out by the time we got inside where the band was, but there was a good sized congenial group that stayed the rest of the evening, as we did. Fred
got some pictures.

     I was surprised this morning to find 1.72 inches of rain had
fallen - mostly early last evening, I think. As we were leaving for Newport, around 6 p.m., we had some fairly heavy showers, but further north, even in the Hardwick area, the road was absolutely dry.