Bailey's Beach legal name is the Spouting Rock Beach Association The day after my eleventh birthday in 1982, I started attending a fancy private school in Newport. The year before my mother had noticed me getting good grades with little effort, and worried that public school was boring me. Then she ushered me through the application process and managed to secure the financial aid that would make it feasible on her teacher’s salary. I remember meeting the headmaster in his clubby, wood-paneled office, and thinking he looked as if he’d exited the birth canal wearing a bow tie.