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2022 Surf Spots and Shops near Books on the Pond Charlestown, Rhode Island I’ve often wondered as a Northeastern skier if surfing in New England gets a similar rap. Is Rhode Island going to rank near Hawaii or Montauk, Long Island or the Jersey Shore for riding waves? After returning to skiing after a …
Surf Spots and Shops in South County, Rhode Island Read More »
Charlestown is uniquely positioned to offer a good day of bird watching in South County, Rhode Island. The grass meadows and woods and the shoreline provide abundant and safe nesting places for varieties of species. Ornithologists and amateur bird watchers (a.k.a. citizen scientists) from all over New England travel here to catch seeing birds and/or …
Sometimes all one has to go on is the painting or sculpture itself. Scott Keeley is refreshingly different; we are given a stunning work of art and the ability to get to know him through conversation, automobile choice, citizen advocacy, and a quote by the French theologian and paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). As …
As Easter approaches and the sun promises spring, I want to hold onto my happy expectation as long as possible. Admittedly this was a bizarre winter, in some way made bearable by the fact that since everyone else was hunkering down, I did not have much FMAO. This is apparently a texting acronym for a …
Kingston, Rhode Island Train Station: A Good Place for Embarking Somewhere along the line I stopped writing down my resolutions. Perhaps life got too busy trying to keep them. Every New Year’s Eve, attempts at change would be written in my journal. Somewhere in June, I would flip back its pages and try and …
Forcing Gratitude never quite works as well as a state of natural grace. Thanksgiving also requires honesty regarding reconciling the fairy tale we learned in the middle grades with the actual story of our country’s beginnings with respect to the treatment of the native Americans or Indigenous Peoples. Then there is all that food; elastic …
On August 28, a dozen of Charlestown residents gathered at BoP to brave the elements, namely those of mosquitoes and a mask wearing world, to discuss the condition of our salt ponds. Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties and other end user mishaps, we missed the Salt Pond Coalition’s Zoom discussion, headed by Alicia Eichinger, its …
Charlestown Residents Socially Distance for the Sake of Our Salt Ponds Read More »