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Passages: RIIL Hall of Famer Richard Stapleton a calm, steady mentor to the high school gymnastics community for 50+ years

August 7, 2024

The RIIL offers its deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Dick Stapleton, a longtime educator, gymnastics coach and official, who passed away at the age of 85 on July 27, 2024.

Inducted into the RIIL High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2019, Stapleton was a health and physical education teacher in Warwick for 22 years. He coached the Toll Gate girls gymnastics team from 1975 to 1990 and then the R.I. College women’s gymnastics team from 1992 to 1998. He had judged high school gymnastics for the last 23 years, formerly serving as the RIIL’s co-director of the sport and co-assignor of officials.

At the 2024 RIIL Gymnastics State Championships last winter, awards presented to the individual champions were named in honor of longtime contributors to Rhode Island gymnastics. As such, Bars Champion Lauren Horrigan of La Salle Academy was presented with the Richard Stapleton Award in Stapleton's honor.

Relatives and friends are invited to a Celebration of Life Service, Sunday August 11, 2024 at noon, in North Scituate Baptist Church, 619 West Greenville Rd, North Scituate, RI.

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"Silent Light" by JAMESPLUMB

National Trust Northern Ireland and JAMESPLUMB present ‘Silent Light’, a light installation and dark sky experience at Downhill Demesne and Mussenden Temple, from 9th–23rd February 2020. Visitors will be steeped in the landscape.

Embarking on a silent walk to Mussenden Temple which sits perched at the edge of a 120ft cliff overlooking the North Atlantic Ocean. Exposed. Yet protective. Within the Temple, an installation of ‘Stained Moons’ awaits. The viewings are in silence and in darkness, after twilight, for fourteen nights in February 2020. The first during the Full Moon on 9th February.

The last on the New Moon on 23rd February. ‘Stained Moons’ is an installation of light and shadow, evoking the eight phases of the moon. The images are found within the broken glass reclaimed from an abandoned and overgrown greenhouse. Stained glass. Stained by time. Each panel has been carefully chosen for the intricate patterns of lichen and dirt. The formation of the image is realised through a dual process. A selective and delicate removal of the patina leaves precisely formed spheres and crescents on the panels intact.

In parallel, a constant interviewing, stacking and combining of the plates creates the image. The image of light and shadow, reflecting back to us from the Earth’s Moon. A series of optical instruments with carefully calibrated lenses and mirrors project the images onto delicate hanging screens. The elusive and distant moon is brought near. Silent Light sees the artwork cloaked within the circular Mussenden Temple.

Originally built as a library in the late eighteenth-century by the eccentric Earl Bishop, the Temple exudes the presence of an observatory in an area of dark skies. The location is powerfully elemental, and the emphasis on silence – an evening of wordlessness – leaves space for a focus on the experiential.

Viewings are choreographed with timed tickets which are available through the National Trust website: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/ downhill-demesne-and-hezlett-house

All images by Richard Stapleton

Words, courtesy of JAMESPLUMB