The Military Bond Between and Beyond
To listen to Ray Blanda and Bill Siano converse back and forth and the camaraderie between them you would think they had been friends since [...]
To listen to Ray Blanda and Bill Siano converse back and forth and the camaraderie between them you would think they had been friends since [...]
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the First World War came to an end. On Sunday morning [...]
The War 0f 1812 between Britain and the United States was in its second year when the heavily laden American merchant vessel Whampoa left from [...]
The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center (DPNC), on Pequotsepos Rd, in Mystic, is a wonderful place to visit and I encourage you to visit in slow-motion. [...]
The navigation markers appear like apparitions in the thick fog. They’re the only indication of where we’re going and where the channel is beside the [...]
Our area is a goldmine and one doesn’t have to dig deep into our culture to discover some great treasures. The treasure being introduced to [...]
If you run across an approximately four-and-a-half-foot tall penguin waddling around Stonington please return it to its home at 40 Palmer Street, Stonington, not the [...]
In my most recent piece in the ‘Famous Athletes of Westerly’ series, I profiled Eddie Sawyer, a Westerly-born baseball player. In this story, I will [...]
In May of 2011, the St. Michael School alumni Committee published an incredibly thorough and history-rich book entitled “St. Michael the Archangel: A History and [...]
Restaurants, arcades, specialty bars, art galleries - what's missing? A movie theater, perhaps, but not just any movie theater - the United Theater of downtown [...]
A couple of days after my trip to the Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association headquarters and my conversation with Denise Poyer I met with my friend Gordon. [...]
In a previous article, I wrote about the life of Westerly Native and Revolutionary War hero Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Ward Jr. This next installment is about [...]