The Providential Gardener

URI Sustainability Week Events ~ October 14-16, 2014

The URI Cooperative Extension is celebrating its 100th anniversary next week, Tuesday, October 14th - Thursday, October 16th, by offering a variety of daytime and evening activities! All events are free and open to the public. To RSVP and for... Read more →

Happy Birthday Providence!

Today, June 1st, 2011, the special celebration of Providence's 375-year history (of European settlement) begins. At this morning's ceremony, it was also made clear that the observance recognizes the thousands of years that the Narragansett and other indigenous peoples lived... Read more →

Rhode Island's 3,500 Historical Cemeteries Need Tending

The Providence Journal's frontpage headline for Halloween, "In grave condition: Rhode Island's historical cemeteries are suffering from neglect," tells how one woman, Evelyn Wheeler of Narragansett, is leading Rhode Islanders throughout the state to notice the condition of historical cemeteries... Read more →

The Mannahatta Project ~ and, Perhaps, The Mooshausic Project?

The New Yorker Magazine's October 1, 2007, issue has a wonderful article, The Mannahatta Project: What did New York look like before we arrived? Work is underway to develop views of the lay of the land, the ponds and springs,... Read more →