Fergie, The Duchess of York
Weight Watchers Changed My Life
By Lorraine Seymourian

Royalty. What is the fascination with them?, What attracts us to want to hear more about their lives? Absolutely everything, apparently, judging by media attention, but who are they? Today we bring you a look at a fascinating and very public royal, Sarah Furgeson, the Duchess of York, spokesperson for Weight Watchers, who talks extensively about the program and graciously shares with us her experiences, believes and her live.
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Premier Car Club
Luxury Timeshare on The Road
By Kellie Speed

If you ever thought you were in need of a unique way to spice up your life, Premier Car Club has the solution. A Premier Car Club membership rewards you with time-shared access to some of the world’s greatest exotic automobiles, classic cars, and touring coupes for a small fraction of the cost of owning. Imagine having exotic cars, such as Ferrari, Lotus, Lamborghini, Porsche, Bentley, Viper, Mercedes and classic cars like Corvette, Jaguar, Mustang, and more at your disposal.
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Socializing Singles
Joining Together For Fun Adventures
By Valinda Almeida

In a valiant attempt to eliminate the bad options that singles often face between dealing with the difficulties of one-on-one dating encounters with strangers or simply staying at home, Diane Marie has created a unique business to help people meet others in similar relationship circumstances in a fun group environment.  Started earlier this year, Socializing Singles, based in Cranston, Rhode Island, offers men and women without partners a chance to go dancing, dining, boating and traveling in the safety of friendly, like-minded individuals. “I knew there had to be a better way to meet new friends than to go on blind dates, pay thousands to a match-making service or search the Internet for someone who might be compatible,” says the youthful-looking 54-year-old, her smiling face framed by long, blonde locks.
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Gifford Marine
Floating & Boating at Gifford Marine
By Stephen L. Cabral

New Bedford’s modern tourist industry is “floating on a wave of recreational boaters,” says one boating pro in that city, and he should know. Paul Gifford, president of Gifford Marine Company Inc., heads a business that has been at the helm of New Bedford’s recreational boating industry since the roaring twenties.
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Dolce Villa
La Dolce Vita Abounds at Dolce Villa
By Paul Kandarian

South Beach, Florida is pretty far from Providence, Rhode Island. But the unmistakable white-on-white style of the former is being felt in the latter at Dolce Villa, a relatively new boutique hotel on Providence’s historic Federal Hill. Located on the Hill’s pedestrian-friendly DePasquale Plaza with its al fresco dining and giant fountain, Dolce Villa opened to rave reviews two years ago for good reason. The little piece of Italy in the Italian section of the city is gloriously Mediterranean in its stylish look, from the lemon-yellow stucco exterior walls to the ship’s-hull balcony railings on suites facing the plaza to the small, very European hotel lobby.
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Carnegie Abbey Golf Club
A Big Presence in a Small State
By Paul Kandarian

When you think fabulous golf courses on or near ocean settings, you might think St. Andrews, Scotland, Pebble Beach, California, or Hilton Head, South Carolina. But let’s not forget Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Yes, that’s right. Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Since 2000, Portsmouth, a scant six miles from the infinitely more famous Newport, has been home to Carnegie Abbey, one the most posh country clubs on the East Coast if not the entire country, a course dubbed “spectacular” by former U.S. Ryder Cup Captain Curtis Strange. Located on the banks of Narragansett Bay spread over 400 wooded acres on the property of the Portsmouth Abbey School by dint of a lease, Carnegie Abbey is a major player in the world of fully rounded sports resorts.
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Century House Inn
Art is the Inn Thing at Nantucket’s Century House
By Paul Kandarian

Art is many different things to many different people. To Gerry Connick and his wife, Jean Ellen Heron, it is a vital part of their cultural lives. And at one time it was a very pretty way to cover up holes in the wall. “There were a lot of holes,” Connick says now, who with his wife are innkeepers at Century House on Nantucket, which was built in the 1840s and is the oldest continuously operating guesthouse on that picturesque island. “For awhile we didn’t have enough art to cover them all.” They do now. The couple, corporate dropouts as they call themselves (he was a capital equipment manufacturing executive, she a medical systems sales director), have run the inn since 1984, taking it over when it was in such disrepair holes abounded throughout the three-story antique structure. They have instituted an artist-in-residence program at their quaint boutique inn, a business that Forbes.com once billed in the top five for American summer inn destinations.
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