Above: Volunteers clean up a long neglected and vandalized cemetery previously hidden in the woods amid a new section of houses. It’s easy to understand why someone new to the area finds these places hard to look at. Historical cemeteries can, however, add historical...
Written 12 years ago by Alan F. Clarke My 20 year old 4-cup Mr. Coffee coffee maker is leaking. I have to put twice as much water in it as I need for coffee and keep a towel under it for the leakage. So I have been looking to replace it for over two years now. Try and...
By Alan F. Clarke Much in the news this week is the coronavirus that’s sweeping around the world and across this country. Officially it’s COVID-19 but the other name stuck before the CDC could name it. I am an old coot and I have memories older than most have these...
Above: Alan Clarke, far left, with the float for the then-Rhode Island Pendulum that was part of the sprawling East Greenwich Tercentenary Parade in July 1977 (read more about the celebration here). By Alan Clarke In 1960, A. J. Liebling, noted journalist associated...
A local legend who terrorized parkers in days of yore. By Alan F. Clarke This originally published March 8, 2007 East Greenwich residents long of memory can call up some pretty interesting local legends. Bricky Rice flying off a building, floating kegs of nails....
Above: View looking northwest, Main Street’s west side with the big building on the left the Masonic Building, foot of Church Street, the old house moved up the hill to make room for Halsband’s News & Tobacco store – most recently Norman’s Restaurant & Tap....
Saturday, August 26th, saw East Greenwich Historical Cemetery Commission volunteers attack the weeds and overgrowth at the cemetery at the intersection of Stone Ridge and Granite Drives. This cemetery has members of the Spencer and Briggs families dating back to the...
Perhaps a little more background on the proposed and now accepted Potowomut Fire Station is in order. While my lifetime interest lies in East Greenwich, I have long owned a house and lived in Potowomut. Therefore I have an historical interest in this fire station...
Photo Caption: If a picture is worth a thousand words, this picture is priceless. Charlie, inside the truck, driving the garage down Beachwood Drive on its way to a new home in North Kingstown on Sunday morning. Photo courtesy Kerri Preble Godfrey October 14th was the...
Hey isn't it time we stopped wasting valuable land on cemeteries? Talk about an idea who's time has passed. Let's put all the dead people in boxes and keep them in one part of town. What kind of medieval [nonsense] is that? I say plow these [people] up and throw em...
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