By Donald Tunnicliff Rice I was saddened recently to read of David Baker’s death, but it did bring to mind many of the good times he and I had together as boys – particularly in the third grade. Our teacher that year I’m going to refer to as Miss X, and the reason for...
By Donald Tunnicliff Rice In 1897 the Rev. Rennetts C. Miller compiled, edited, and published a three-volume history of the New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Conference encompassed the eastern half of Connecticut, all of Rhode...
Above: King Charles and Queen Camilla wave from Buckingham Palace on Coronation Day, May 6, 2023. Wikipedia photo by Isaac Mayne / DCMS (Missed a Coronation of a British Monarch) Not being alive at the time was the cause of my missing all but the two most recent...
Above: Cheerio and Aaron Rice, the author's son, in 1969. August 2, 1896 – November 9, 1970 Find Part 1 HERE. Over the years Cheerio took photos of hundreds of townies, and in the early days even did weddings. He told me that on one occasion he caused a fire at the...
Above: Cheerio sharing Thanksgiving Dinner at the Rice household in 1954, from left, Ennis “Cheerio” Clarke, Walter Rice, and Edna Rice. Photo credit: Don Rice August 2, 1896 – November 9, 1970 East Greenwich has always seemed to have more than its fair share of...
Above: The Nike missile launch site in Bristol, built in 1956. Photo credit: The Military Standard This is the second of two stories about Don Rice's visits to what we now refer to as the "old jail" at the bottom of King Street. You can find the first story HERE. I’ll...
By Donald Tunnicliff Rice Every now and then something – a photo on Facebook, perhaps – brings to mind the old Kent County Jail, and that inevitably reminds me of my two visits to that building when it was still a functioning calaboose. Recently the reminder was an...
Above: A bronze statue in Kennedy Plaza in Providence honors Rhode Islanders who served in the Spanish American War. Credit: Donald Tunnicliff Rice By Donald Tunnicliff Rice On February 15, 1898, the battleship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor killing 266 American...
Above: Ships burn on Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row the morning of the Japanese attack; the USS Arizona is in the foreground. Editor's Note: Dec. 7, 2021, marks the 80th anniversary of the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, a major U.S. Navy base in...
I'll always be a working-class ‘40s/’50s kid from East Greenwich, Rhode Island. It was a great town for kids, partly due to the settings – Scalloptown, Jigger's Diner, Sunset Rock, the Academy, Allen's Hill, Earnshaw's drugstore, and so on – but it was the local...
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