Know Your Mom and Pop: Ferruolo Home Improvements
There’s something heartening about a family business, buoyed by the business owner’s dream to work hard to build up a strong company that sustains itself long enough to be passed […]
Events:
A Shared Journey
September 13, 2025 - March 5, 2026This Is a Thing, Recent Gifts to Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 2020–2025
September 14, 2025 - March 1, 2026The Court: Art in Play
September 24, 2025 - April 26, 2026The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Book Review: Thomas D’Agostino’s Haunted Rhode Island
Fall is my absolute favorite season. The temperature is at a close to perfect level — not so hot and humid that sweat drenches everything nearly immediately and not too […]
Book Review: Karen Lee Boren’s Mother Tongue
I’m sure people can spend hours debating what they feel is the most difficult part of writing, and there will be many different answers. My personal struggle focuses on the […]
Book Review: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sanity
Dick Martin was born and raised in Gloucester, RI, and made his living as a teacher at Burriville High School (and then Killingly High School in Connecticut) while moonlighting as […]
Know Your Mom and Pop: Lang’s Bowlarama
There’s nothing like a good night of bowling. Something about being in a bowling alley inspires a nostalgic feeling of simpler times. It’s a simple game (at least to the […]
2015 Summer Reading Guide: Classics and Local Soon-to-be Classics
I wanted to do things a little differently for this year’s summer reading guide. There are so many fantastic classics out there that go unread unless suffering through it during […]
Know Your Mom and Pop: M + L Landscaping
No one expected it to happen, but the air started to get warmer in the middle of March and the multiple inches of snow that fell this winter were completely […]
Book Review: Jeff Danielian’s Seasonal Ramblings
It took me a bit of time to find a connection with Jeff Danielian’s first book of poetry, Seasonal Ramblings. As I read through the first section, “Through Time & […]
Rock ‘n’ Roll Collectors Convention Brings March in Like a Lion
February has left everybody in this area stir crazy. Storm after storm. Shoveling until your lower back is in constant pain and your shoulders are so sore you can barely […]
Know Your Mom and Pop: Hillside Barber Shop
Though the Internet has taken over our lives, there are still a few things that can’t be done with a computer, smart phone or tablet. The services of mechanics, chefs […]