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Bob Burke

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Bob Burke

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Bob Burke

Bob Burke

Bob Burke is a "lone castaway on Mars" after he survived a spaceship crash seven years earlier. Living in the Southern desert of Mars, he fa

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Dodge the I-195 fooddoggle

Dodge the I-195 fooddoggle

Proposed food pavilion would sit in red circle (on map) west of the pedestrian bridge. (Journal) Yesterday’s Sunday Journal describes the growing dispute between Providence restaurants and the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission, which wants to use state money to finance a food pavilion in the park at the west end of the Van Leesten Memorial Pedestrian Bridge. Restaurateurs oppose using…

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Ah, the gentle old streets!

Ah, the gentle old streets!

View down Weybosset Street, looking northeast from outside Providence Arcade. (Photo by author) Weybosset Street, just as it curves into its merger with Westminster Street, in downtown Providence, surely is the apex of beauty in this historic city. On a fall day in 1984 I emerged for the first time from the Providence Arcade (1828) onto Weybosset, turned my head left and beheld the view pictured…

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Frank Lloyd Wright in Pawtucket

Frank Lloyd Wright in Pawtucket

Frank Lloyd Wright’s modest family house, 12 Blackstone Ave., in Pawtucket, when he was age five. Frank Lloyd Wright would be 155 years old if he were alive on his June 7 date of birth. A hundred and fifty years ago he spent the age of five in Pawtucket, where for a year his family lived at 12 Blackstone Ave., a block or so west of the river of the same name. It was not a happy family life for…

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