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After the Duck and Bunny, How Do We Save These Old Houses?
In the name of fancy cupcakes, a Federal-style building in Fox Point was razed to rubble. It doesn’t have to be this way.
April 9, 2021
The aftermath. The owner of Duck and Bunny demolished its historic home in Providence with plans to rebuild the restaurant for a 2022 re-opening. (Photo credit: Scott Moran)
In the wake of the Easter weekend demolition of a Federal-style building on Wickenden Street in Providence’s Fox Point neighborhood, public opinion fell into two camps:
“How horrible that you decided to destroy the character of the neighborhood by tearing down an historic building. Definitely not patronizing your company anytime in the future.”
Chatter: April
April 7, 2021
I don’t know the right way to go about thanking you for the incredible piece you put together for your February edition. We all knew Karen’s writeup was wonderful in and of itself, but the photos, layout, presentation and everything else made it shine even brighter. We are so honored you not only took the time to help tell that story, but that you highlighted us so perfectly and professionally.
Wendy Taylor
Reporter, February
According to “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” convicted murderer Michael Woodmansee, after being granted release from prison, “agreed to voluntarily commit himself to the Eleanor Slater Hospital in the face of two independent psychiatric evaluations determining that he remained a threat to society.” Voluntarily? Here is the question that comes to my mind: What would have happened if he had declined?
RIM s publisher, John Palumbo, introduces the April issue.
April 5, 2021
John Palumbo, President and Publisher. Photography by Meaghan Susi.
Did you know the official state dirt of Illinois is the Drummer? How about that Wisconsin’s official state microbe is the
Lactococcus lactis? If you really want to impress at your next virtual cocktail party, just drop the fact that Maryland’s official state sport is jousting or that North Carolina’s official state dance is the Shag, a derivative of Gaelic frivolity from the Appalachians.
A few years ago, the national magazine
The Week published a list of some of the more bizarre state symbols and guess what clocked in as number one? You betcha’, Rhode Island’s official state appetizer, calamari.
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