Had a memorable evening Nov. 14 at the 191st annual meeting of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Many good things underway with the soci...

State Hospital for Mental Diseases, March 1954. Courtesy Providence Journal. Ladd Center, 1956. Courtesy Providence Journal.   ...

"The Growing Season" is available as a paperback and in Kindle from Amazon under the title "THE GROWING SEASON: Frank Beazle...

TOY WARS: The Epic Battle Between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them, my Random House book about toymakers Hasbro and Matte...

Rob and Nancy (Carpenter) Thoresen, mother and son, in front of their front-row summer cottage. Once upon a time, it was hundreds of ...

My good friends at Crossroad Press, publisher David Wilson and artist David Dodd, continue with their mission of bringin...

Spent a good part of Thursday day at Roy Carpenter's Beach in Matunuck, South Kingstown, R.I., for a Sunday story for The Providence Jou...

I am honored to be the guest speaker at the 191st annual meeting of the Rhode Island Historical Society at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2...

 My third day chronicling Hurricane Sandy. More, as always, at The Providence Journal. [For Sunday and Monday pre- and during-Sandy photos...

 The shore at South Kingstown -- Matunuck in particular -- is one of my favorite parts of Rhode Island, along with the Charlestown and ...