RI Authors Showcase - Meet Harle Tinney

Nov 1

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Welcome to the Rhode Island Authors Showcase! Each day in November, this blog will feature a different Rhode Island author. Read the post and leave a comment and you are eligible to win this day’s giveaway!

Leave a comment every day this month for over 30 chances to win either our Grand Prize (a $250 Amazon gift card), our Bonus Prize (a $100 Amazon gift card), or a Cheer-Up Prize (amount to be determined), just in time for holiday shopping!

A winner will be randomly selected one week after the publication of the blog post, and the Grand Prize and Bonus Prize winners will be randomly selected on December 7, 2021. For the daily giveaways, the author will contact you directly to coordinate delivery. Print books for delivery within the US only, please.

Belcourt Castle has been one of the crown jewels of world-famous Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. Author Harle Tinney knows the house like the palm of her hand, because she resided there longer than any other owner including the Belmonts who built it, Harold Vanderbilt, Defender of the America’s Cup, and the Lorillards who began the Newport Jazz Festival. Harle is the last survivor of the Tinney Family who bravely saved Belcourt from the wrecker’s ball in 1956.

In Belcourt Castle, Milestones and Memories, take a private tour of one of Bellevue Avenue’s most famous, privately-owned mansions dubbed “Belcourt Castle” by the Tinney family. Packed with over 100 color illustrations, this book covers 100 years of the mansions history in Newport, Rhode Island. Your guide is Harle Tinney – the woman who lived there and nurtured the concept of “Belcourt Castle” for 52 years.

With some new stories and pictures, the third edition of The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle recounts stories of apparitions seen, heard, and experienced in Newport, Rhode Island's gilded age mansion of the Belmont Family. Belcourt stood empty for fifteen years until the Tinney Family purchased it in 1956. A residence and showplace, the castle was furnished with antiques from thirty-three countries and some of them were haunted.

Harle has most generously offered to give away both books to one lucky winner! Print copies for US only, please. Both are first editions, and Harle will include an online chapter from the third edition of The Ghosts of Belcourt Castle called "August Belmont IV." All you need to do to be eligible is answer this question: Would you live in a haunted castle if you had the chance?