Cile Prestamo, John Freidah and me. A fine evening May 18 at the Newton, Mass., Marriott, receiving the Edward R. Murrow Award for best...

©Marianne Lee / Courtesy of Salve Regina University   The 2012 Pell Scholars, with Mrs. Nuala Pell, center; me, behind her; and Dr. Khali...

 I will be speaking at 1 p.m. this Saturday, May 12, at the 35th annual convention of the Rhode Island chapter of the Special Libraries Asso...

BEHIND THE HEDGEROW: Eileen Slocum and the Meaning of Newport Society, opening-night feature film of the 2010 Rhode Island Internati...

  In my many years at The Providence Journal, there have been few public-service efforts that rival the year-long examination of ...

We learned last night that COMING HOME,  which already this year has won a 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award, has been nominated for a 35t...

            Sunday’s kickoff to the  seventh annual Roving Eye Film Festival at Roger Williams University was a fine success. We had ...

With the combined promotional efforts of The Providence Journal, Roger Williams University and the Rhode Island International Film festiv...

The public is invited to COMING HOME: THE HUMAN FACE OF WAR, a free afternoon of documentaries and discussion on Sunday, April 22...

Edwards Hall, University of Rhode Island, April 15, 2012. On a warm spring day, with trees leafing and flowers blooming, a day he would...

DiStefano Hall Antone Building, Salve Regina U. Presented today at an American History class at Newport's Salve Regina University ...

Word today that the Providence Journal's first-ever documentary movie, COMING HOME, about veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanista...

Katy Miller with her dad at N.K. Library talk. Spoke to a good crowd for an hour and a half Wednesday night at the North Kingstown Free ...

Frank and me in the Senate chamber.  Those who know me know my long admiration and deep respect for Frank Beazley, poet, artist, cham...

There will be a public memorial service for Pete at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 15, in Edwards Auditorium at the University of Rhode Island. A rece...

RIP, Pete Lord, friend and colleague of all of us at The Providence Journal. Pete died this afternoon after almost 11 months of trying to...

After our successful broadcast premiere Monday, March 26, on Rhode Island PBS , The Providence Journal takes COMING HOME, our document...

 Fiction remains my first true writing love, and squeezed between my non-fiction work, I still manage some of it, mostly MEMORY, my nove...

Tonight is the broadcast premiere, followed by a live panel discussion of Coming Home, The Providence Journal's first feature-length do...

Speaking and reading 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, at the Fabre Line Book Club on Providence's historic waterfront -- 200 Allens Ave. Ho...

One of the hundreds of stories The Providence Journal published in the first year after the tragedy alone. This was 11 days out, before the ...

A very nice feature story in The Warwick Beacon on Feb. 8 about the Pell bio and my Warwick Public Library talk last night, which went well...

... for a tour through some places my writing has brought me over the years: toy companies, the halls of Congress, Newport mansions, NASCAR,...

Now listed on IMDB. My third film, now "official."

... for a tour through some places my writing has brought me over the years: toy companies, the halls of Congress, Newport mansions, NASCAR,...

It's official: On Monday, March 26, at 8 p.m., Rhode Island PBS will broadcast The Providence Journal's first feature-length documen...

The Providence Journal this afternoon posted our first original, feature-length documentary: Coming Home, about four veterans of the War o...

The Providence Journal has now created a dedicated page on our website for the eight-part series, with six John Freidah videos, that ran thi...

I will be discussing some of the places my fiction and non-fiction writing has brought me at Spot Underground, the arts and music place in P...

Please join me this Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Redwood Library in Newport for a talk and reading from AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life & Times...

As part of the VA's Veterans Day ceremonies, Providence Journal colleague John Freidah and I spoke today at the Providence VA Medical Ce...

... The Providence Journal's Publick Occurrences forum Monday, Nov. 7, at Rhode Island College. This is a photo from the event of me wit...

After five months of work, and publication on six Sundays and two Mondays, my Providence Journal series on the veterans of the wars in Iraq ...

With three decades in journalism, I can authoritatively state that public praise from a colleague is rare. And so I was humbled by longtime ...

... with part Six of my exploration of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan coming this Sunday, Oct. 30. Meanwhile, just posted: Th...

The Ambush: Day Five of my continuing seven-day Providence Journal series on the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will run on thi...

Some 200 people came out on a beautiful fall afternoon Oct. 16 for the launch party at Salve Regina University's Pell Center. I signed 1...

As publishers continue deeper into electronic publishing, two of my books have made it not only onto Amazon's Kindle but also now, iTune...

Please join me this Sunday, October 16th, at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for the launch party for my eighth book, AN UNCOMMON...

Photographer John Freidah and I have spent the last several months producing a seven-part Providence Journal series about veterans of the Ir...

David Scharfenberg, editor of The Providence Phoenix, had some very nice things to say in introducing an interview with me about my soon-to...

The hard copy release is still on the horizon, but Amazon has released the Kindle version of the book. You can read it now! Details at the A...

Pre-sale copies of AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, my eighth book, seventh non-fiction, arrived at my home a...

More showings, more free DVDs... Join us this weekend at the Jane Pickens in Newport!

I became a friend, and a bit of a biographer, of Bruce Sundlun in his later years, and so I was honored to write his obituary, published in ...

NEWPORT, R.I. –– The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center on Monday, August 8, will present a special one-year-anniversary showing of the...

...and the Rhode Island Monthly excerpt is set for their popular August issue. This for AN UNCOMMON MAN, which hopedully will prove to be a...

AN UNCOMMON MAN: The Life and Times of Senator Claiborne Pell, is now available on Amazon. This biography, my eighth book, will be in books...

Many writers are of course weighing in on this subject, but I find this essay contributed to CNN to be especially insightful.