Cage Fight

Cage Fight OYSTER FARMERS FACE OFF AGAINST OBJECTORS TO THEIR EXPANSION PLANS By Ellen Liberman | Photographs by Jesse Burke THERE IS PEACE ON THE POND. The winter sun spreads its milky light on the water and its warmth on the faces of Jennifer Scappatura and her...

Green Grab Cuisine

Green Grab Cuisine A CULINARY SOLUTION TO INVASIVE SPECIES By Todd McLeish | Photographs by Marianne Lee WHEN CATHERINE PUCKETT WORKED FOR THE BLOCK ISLAND SHELLFISH COMMISSION  in the early 2000s, part of the island’s shellfish management plan involved trapping and...

A River Runs Through It

A River Runs Through It A CHANGING CLIMATE, INCREASING DEVELOPMENT, AND AGING, ANTIQUATED DAMS ARE PUTTING RHODE ISLAND CITIES AND TOWNS IN PERIL By Bob Gulla | Photographs by Monica Allard Cox THE DAME AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE  John L. Curran Lower Reservoir in...

Call Me Climate Refugee

Call Me Climate Refugee How Moby-Dick's Ishmael Represents a Culture Soon To Be a Stateless Republic By Richard J. King, author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick | Illustrations by Rockwell Kent At the end of the novel Moby-Dick, the infamous white...