Oldport Days

Oldport Days is a collection of sketches that looks back at Newport, Rhode Island, as it was in earlier times. Its pieces describe the town's streets, customs and everyday character, and treat the old seaport as a place with its own memories.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the author, was a writer and reformer from New England who later led a regiment of formerly enslaved men in the Civil War. His portrait of Newport reflects a New Englander's interest in local history and in the people who shaped a community.

The book suits readers who enjoy local history, regional writing and nineteenth-century American prose about the places where people lived.