A double rainbow over Greenwich Cove
Here’s hoping that yesterday’s double rainbow signals an end to the very wet June that gardeners have enjoyed at the expense of beach bums.
Little lobster boat takes on Big Coal at Brayton Point
A 32-foot lobster boat, the Henry David T, managed to stop a 688-foot cargo ship from delivering 40,000 tons of coal to Brayton Point last week.”The action may have been a preview of protests being planned against the power plant by New England activists on July 27 and July 28,” reports East Bay Newspapers. Activists [...]
Bald Eagle, Hawks Over a Frozen Greenwich Cove
One of the things I love most about these sustained deep freezes is my neighbor Jeff Stevens and I have a tradition of going for a walk across Greenwich Cove when the ice permits. The Cove – the EG Riviera, as locals sometimes call it because of the confluence of working waterfront, high end bars [...]
Monday on Greenwich Cove
After a long weekend of work, I took some time today to reacquaint myself with Greenwich Cove. In the morning, I went down to the old town dump, now called Scalloptown Park. Then in the afternoon I headed over to Goddard Park on the other side of the Cove. Here are some of the pictures [...]
Local Author Looks at Quahogging Industry
Maine has the lobster and Maryland the crab. Vermont has maple syrup, Wisconsin has cheese, Texas has the t-bone steak and California has its produce. Rhode Island, of course, has its own staple food: the quahog. As iconic as our state clam is, though, many know little about the men who harvest them. Few, on [...]
Greenwich Cove Study
For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you probably have already figured out I’m kind of doing a study of Greenwich Cove under the hashtag: #egriviera – which is what locals call the collection of bars, shanties, parks, inlets, marshes and parks on the waterfront in East Greenwich. Since it was such a [...]
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