Mary Lhowe teaches Akhtar Darabi English in his West Warwick home – Zane Wolfang / Ocean State Stories
Afghan refugees are learning to call Rhode Island home
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Basri Darabi’s face is furled in concentration as she carefully constructs her sentence: “Akhtar is [...]

13
Dec
Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum to Bring Indigenous Culture Closer to a Diverse Providence
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Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology has long been split across two locations: Providence, where [...]

13
Dec
Exterior Cranston Armory Credit: Taylor Polites
Still Hoping for the Cranston Street Armory
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The Cranston Street Armory, one of Rhode Island’s most iconic treasures, remains lost in a [...]

22
Nov
Mashapaug Pond, Providence’s largest, a deserted idyll in need of love
Why is Providence’s Largest Pond Invisible?
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On Saturday mornings between April and October, a group of volunteer URI Watershed Watch “citizen [...]

15
Nov
Giant sycamore in front of Betsey Williams cottage. The tree, according to Doug Still, was planted at the same time as a Mulberry, a tree Still named the Rhoda Williams Mulberry, that survived long enough to be in old photos but is no longer there. Since this photo, wooden props have been installed under the long horizontal branch.  Photo courtesy of the RW Park Conservancy
The Williams Family Tree, Roger and Betsey 
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The American Sycamore tree in Roger Williams Park between Betsey Williams’ cottage and the statue [...]

08
Nov
Columbus Goes to Johnston
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The Italian American community has lusted after the statue of Christopher Columbus in Elmwood for [...]

27
Sep
North Burial Ground as Haven
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As the Director of City Cemeteries, I have a particular fondness for North Burial Ground [...]

20
Sep
North Burial Ground as Habitat
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Those of us who live in a city occasionally need an oasis away from the [...]

20
Sep
PVD Libraries Seeing Double
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Providence has two independently run library systems.  How did that happen?  Newcomers to the city [...]

13
Sep
What goes into the recycling bin?
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30
Aug