If a newspaper writer in the middle of the 20th century needed a human-interest story a visit to Block Island offered a range of writing possibilities. The dichotomy of island
On a day in 1943, residents of Block Island gathered to dedicate a stone marker to the former civic center of island life. For younger residents, the location of the
In 1962, a reporter from the Providence Journal named Neil Oldham visited Block Island to interview an 80-year-old sage of the birding world named Miss Elizabeth Dickens. His journey commenced in the declining city of Providence, R.I. The.
The airport is too frequent a destination when it is almost exclusively to collect a bag from the pharmacy in Westerly. I have learned over time if I do not make that my first stop, if I do not take that first left coming out of Neck, onto Beach.
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One of Edie Blane’s many roles on Block Island was that of an early-on telephone switchboard operator. Photo courtesy of George Mott.
“Bound by Blue: A life on Block Island,” a film by Katherine Reaves, presents the life of Edith “Edie” Littlefield Blane through personal narration, capturing Edie’s passion, spirit, and love of Block Island. The film premiered on YouTube on April 13, 2021, which also happened to be
Edie’s birthday.
Ms. Blane begins her story with her birth, off island in the Norwalk hospital. Her father and his fishing boat quickly rectified that, however. Within weeks, Edie was on her way home to Block Island, a six-hour trip in those days on her father’s boat, the