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It would annoy — perhaps even disturb — all the right people. I mean, it’s a stimulus of hoots of rage and gnashing of teeth when the Providence Journal decides to call us a think tank in our bio lines. Imagine the madness were we to prove able to raise money successfully! For our part,…
As Anchor Rising readers know, tough times are looming in Rhode Island. Whether those times amount to a squall, a season, or an era depends in greatest part on the honesty and bravery of the General Assembly. Are we looking at a year of hardship? Three years? Even longer? Whichever it may be, the machine…
By way of a functionality note: We’re in the midst of a particularly voluminous and pernicious wave of comment spam, so if a comment of yours should happen to disappear, it’s more likely to have fallen victim to my speed-weeding than to have been deliberately removed. I’ve already caught one such error, myself, but don’t…
We at Anchor Rising wish all of our readers a healthy and happy 2008! Here’s to hoping that 2008 brings better times to our state. Strive On!!!
From La Salette shrine; Attleboro, Massachusetts, in the 2007th year of Our Lord.
The First Thanksgiving 1621 by Karen Rinaldo Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after have a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served…
At least from my computer, it appears that we’re having some technical difficulties, with Anchor Rising being replaced at intervals with one of those generic stolen-URL promotional sites. As it happens our domain name registration renews today, but that may very well be coincidental. Perhaps, with the storm, connections are being lost somewhere out there…
After a few years of blogging, during which the ebbs and flows of our writing have taken us each in several directions, on several levels of analysis, with multiple genres of writing, we’ve come to the conclusion that we can only cover so much ground. Would that we could develop in depth analysis — scatterplots,…
Thanks to everybody who came out last night. I’m always nervous to communicate with folks in a medium that I can’t edit, but it was certainly fun. We’ll be planning more events in the future, and if you have any ideas, we’d love to hear them.
It’s the TGI Friday’s on the corner of Bald Hill Road and 117, not (as I’m told there is one) the location by the airport.i