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There were chants of “USA, USA, USA,” from the porch at The Surf Hotel, where a crowd assembled on Monday night (July 2, 2018) to watch Block Island’s fireworks display. The fireworks exploded in the night’s sky over the ocean off of the Town Beach, with bursts of red, white and blue, causing a shimmering

I would like to congratulate the Block Island Conservancy for 50 years of stewardship on Block Island. Since the founding of your grassroots organization in the fall of 1972, your membership has fought the good fight. In October I was honored by being asked by Dorrie Napoleone, President of the BIC, to speak at the

Earlier this month I visited the campus of Harvard University to see archival file folders located in the basement of the Frances Loeb Library at the renowned Harvard Graduate School of Design. For nearly 70 years modernistic architectural design plans for high-rise hotels and casinos have been filed under “Block Island Design Project, 1952.” All