7/13, MANDIA family in matching shirts:
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Laura and Bill Mandia, Cherry Hill, NJ, with their sons (left to right) Dylan, Will and Shane: On the family's sixth visit to Block Island, they rented a house for the week. The...
Photos and text by Pat Tengwall
The 4th of July parade was well attended and lots of fun! Photos by K. Curtis.
The Block Island School graduation was held on Saturday, June 10, 2017 at The Narragansett Inn in New Harbor. It was a warm and beautiful day for the five seniors to receive their diplomas in front of friends, family, faculty and all of the underclassmen. Congratulations and best wishes to the...
With the foghorn sounding in the background, the Block Island Power Company hosted an event at the Southeast Lighthouse bluffs to celebrate the switch over from the utility's diesel burning generators to clean, wind-generated energy from the Block Island Wind Farm on Monday, May 1. Photos by K....
On Saturday, January 21, people of all ages gathered at the Statue of Rebecca on Block Island in support of the Woman's March on Washington. Photos by K. Curtis.
Winter on Block Island 1/7/17Photos by K. Curtis...
Summer is here! When are you coming out for a visit?
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it,...
Awake, thou wintry earth -Fling off thy sadness!Fair vernal flowers, laugh forthYour ancient gladness!~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"...
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. ~John Burroughs, "The Snow-...
"Keep your faith in beautiful things;in the sun when it is hidden,in the Spring when it is gone."- Roy R. Gibson...
Juno packed a wallop but the island survived with no serious consequences. Town and island businesses altered their hours, school was cancelled for two days, and the ferry was back and running on Wednesday. In the days following, plows and people are still working to clean up and dig out. This...
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. ~John Burroughs, "The Snow-...
