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How does my garden grow? The soil has been turned and fertilized. Seedlings have been planted. And with a plea to famously fickle New England weather gods, I’m hoping for a good harvest for Annual Garden 47. I can almost taste a plateful of just-picked garden tomatoes perched on chunks of mozzarella, dressed with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic and basil, and complimented by slices fresh hard crusted Italian bread. Why Annual Garden 47? I guess a historic summary is in order. I grew up in a South Providence tenement house. Our first floor of the Crary Street house had a cement yard. Our second floor tenement on Hospital Street had a small back yard with considerably more hard dirt than grass. A few odd fruit trees dotted the neighborhood and assorted grapevines wound around backyard arbors, built by first generation Italians immigrants. Once a year, we enjoyed the sights, heard the sounds, and inhaled the scents of grapes being pressed from those arbors into potent home-made wine. Fresh fruits and vegetables were purchased in stores, or from vendors ambling through our neighborhoods on their well-established routes. In my late Aunt Tillie’s case, buying produce was a test of her bargaining skills. Many a vendor on the streets of DePasquale Avenue in
Federal Hill was a victim of her superior negotiating prowess. Farms were something you saw driving by the Adult Correctional Institute (where Mulligan’s Island amusement area stands today), or along Route 2 on the way to South County. On the other hand, my wife Kathy grew up as the oldest of seven children in Woodsville, New Hampshire, a small town in the White Mountain region. Half of their back yard was dominated by a huge garden of corn, beans, tomatoes, peas, beets, potatoes, raspberries, strawberries, and assorted other vegetables and fruits. The garden provided fresh produce for her large family and considerable surplus for canning and preserving. In 1971, we planted Annual Garden One at our first home in North Providence. The 90 year old Centredale house was one of the first built Hobson Avenue. The house sat atop a section of huge ledge that extended under most of the neighborhood. In fact, a section of our front foundation was built AROUND this ledge. The rest of the slab sloped upward to a hill outside the house. The hill was camouflaged by grass. In later years, the hill was the venue for neighborhood daredevils (including my two sons) who would pedal from
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Summer Music Festivals Rhode Island plays host this summer to five major Music Festivals and one summer theatre, featuring the best in jazz, folk, classical, roots and Broadway musicals. Plan your summer and enjoy the best in entertainment in Newport, Charlestown, Matunuck, Warwick and Cranston.
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We look forward to Music on the Hill every summer, this year from June 2-10. President Gerard Pellegrino and his wife Carol work year-long to line up former Rhode Islanders who have continued their music careers across the country, returning every summer and bringing home many of their friends to perform a series of concerts in Westerly, Warwick and Cranston. Opening concert is in Westerly at the Dunn’s Corners Community Church. The series then moves to Warwick’s St. Gregory’s Church for a Brahms concert on June 3, followed by concerts on the 5th and 6th at the Immaculate Conception Church in Cranston. Back to St. Gregory’s on June 7, and to Warwick’s St. Rose and Lima on June 8. All concerts begin at 7:00 p.m. The series concludes with an outdoor concert at the Clouds Hill Mansion, 4157 Post Rd. in Warwick at 2:00 p.m. on June 10. Admission is $25 at the door, $20 in advance. Students with ID are free. The entire program, including bios on all performers, notes on every piece, including its length, are included in the program which can be accessed at www.musiconthehillri.org.
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Once again the Newport Folk Festival has sold out before the complete lineup was even announced. Held at Fort Adams, the Festival runs June 27-29 and has been aimed at the younger audience who follow the folk scene, which is quite different from the days of Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Peter, Pau and Mary, but is still a good alternative to rap, hard rock, and some of the stuff kids listen to these days. You’ll see tickets for sale on line, but be careful before buying. Check out the lineup and more information on newportfolkfestival.com.
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If you are a lover of classical music, one of the top festivals in the world is held right here in Rhode Island at a variety of venues, including the famous mansions. The 50th Annual Newport Music Festival runs from July 4-22, with four concerts a day, starting at 11:00 am, with the final concert at 9:00 p.m. Artists from all over the world, including Joshua Bell and the Imani Winds play up close and intimate in music rooms that were used by the Rockefellers and other inhabitants of the “summer cottages”. Prices for most concerts are quite reasonable and can be ordered in advance. Go on line at Newportmusicfestival.com for a complete program. We pick a day in early July when we travel over the bridge and attend four concerts, pausing in between to take a ride on Ocean Drive and enjoy dinner at Anthony’s.
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I wouldn’t miss the festival at Fort Adams for anything. The festival runs August 3-5, with a special concert Friday night at the Newport Casino. With three venues providing a wide scope of jazz, the festival is laid back, offering everything from big bands to New Orleans to funk to small, intimate trios. If sitting on the ground is not your thing, the festival provides a seating area, or better yet, bring your own chair. Traditional artists like Christian McBride and Pat Metheny join with younger artists like Boston’s Grace Kelly and TV star Jon Batiste. I enjoy going from the large groups on the main stage to the smaller trios and quartets at the other two venues. Check out the schedule and info at Newportjazzfestival.com.
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I have gone to Ninigret Park in Charlestown every Labor Day weekend since the very beginning to enjoy Cajun, Zydeco, Tex-Mex, Country, Jazz, and all that wonderful music that falls under the “Roots” genre. August 31-September 2, the 21st Annual Rhythm and Roots Festival fills the grounds with great music and food. This year features the Taj Mahal Trio, Steve Earle and the Dukes, Asleep at the Wheel, Steve Riley aand the Mammou Playboys, Donna the Buffalo, and a lineup of the best iof the genre. You can camp out or commute, bring your own food or enjoy some tasty jambolaya, ribs, or a variety of Cajun western, and Rhode Island fare. Check them out at rhythmandrootsri.com. ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL June 2018
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for Two By TIM FORSBERG Thirty-two years ago yesterday, a love note was etched into a table at the Rocky Point Amusement Park. “Jodie Maranda + Norm Tellier, May 16, 86. I love Norm,” read the message that was carved into the yellow tabletop. The note was encircled with a big heart. For the next ten years, the table stood between the Rock and Roll and the Tempest, right in front of the House of Horrors, until the park closed for good in 1995. Like a message in a bottle, the inscription remained encapsulated in the cordoned off and abandoned park. As time, vandals, and arsonists took their toll on the park’s structures during the next 20 years, the tabletop with its message of devotion remained behind. Eventually, the table and its top were bulldozed into a large pile of wood, glass, shingles, and more as debris from the park was stacked together in an effort to manage the growing mess. And there it sat again, precariously placed near the top of the pile, until 2014, when the Department of Environmental Management (DEM) began a nearly $3 million cleanup of Rocky Point to remove nearly all traces of the former amusement park. It looked like an ignominious end for the message of love.
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This is where Sean McCarthy, who was 14 years old at the time, comes in to the story. Sean’s been featured multiple times in the paper as the “Rocky Point Kid” for his love of all things Rocky Point and his desire to collect and protect the park’s history. His huge Rocky Point collection is capped by a House of Horrors car that he recently acquired and painstakingly restored to its original condition. As the DEM cleanup began, Sean made it a point to save as much as he could of the old park. From tickets to plates to trinkets, Sean searched for anything worth keeping. He worked with DEM and saved a Shore Dinner Hall picnic table, and thought he’d look for more. Sean then came across the pile of junk in the park, and noticed the table top near the peak of the pile. “The tabletop was found in a pile of rubble next to the Flume across from the Skyliner, in the center part. There was just a pile of junk and it was just sticking out of the pile so I climbed up and grabbed it,” he said. Sean then stored the table top in his backyard for the next four years. Now a senior in high school, and at 18 no longer a kid, he returned to the tabletop a few weeks ago and thought about restoring it. “I went in my shed recently and saw the tabletops, usually I don’t touch the tabletops, and they’ve always stayed in my shed since I took them out of Rocky Point. But before school ended I wanted to do a small project, so I took one of the tops out and as I was sanding it down I noticed that there was an engraving on the bottom left hand corner that I didn’t notice before,” he said. “It was a big heart and it had names in it, and once I saw it my goal became to find out who these people were. I knew my chances were very slim, but I had to try.” Using a pencil, Sean traced the carving to enhance and read the words to obtain the names. He then turned to Facebook, and with a quick search of the name “Jodie Maranda,” found a match almost immediately. He also found a shop that she owns in Pawtucket, so he sent multiple messages to those pages and hoped to find the right match. Lo and behold, on his first try, he found the right person.
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Jodie and Norm met when she was 14 and he was 17. According to Jodie, when they were younger and didn’t know any better, she used to write or carve their names wherever they went. “I used to joke with Norm all the time and say ‘Thirty years from now we’re going to find this and say remember the day we carved this.” I literally used to say 30 years, that was the number I always used,” said Jodie. “I used to do it all the time until I went to one place that said please don’t carve into our trees, and they had a log that we could carve on instead. After that I stopped, when I was about 16.” One of the first real dates the couple took was to Rocky Point with some of their friends. It was then that she made the Sean McCarthy presents Norm Tellier carving. Both remembered the with the long lost table top. The 1986 day the carving was made. Jodie carving is pictured right. said that, unlike most people, she has to eat before going on a “My hat goes off to Sean, because somebody at his ride. She got a pizza and her friend, Alan, got a frozen age who has never even had the experience of being able lime dairy drink. They then went on the Tempest, to go to the amusement park, everything he knows about where Alan’s drink unfortunately didn’t stay down. it is through research. For someone like that who went While Alan went to the bathroom to recover, Jodie through all of these steps to learn about the park, and and Norm sat down and she made the carving with restore the House of Horror car and then find a piece a key. of our past is just incredible and commendable,” said In 1990, four years after the carving was Norm. made, Jodie and Norm-who were then 18 and “When I saw the carving I just started to cry,” said 21, respectively-got married in Woonsocket Jodie, who added that all of her other carvings from that where they lived. Three years later, they had time are long gone. “I never thought this would surface their daughter, Sarah Mae who is now 25, again, I just still can’t believe it.” followed by Kevin, who is now 22. Sarah Norm said the secret to his success in love was Mae was fortunate enough to accompany “understanding and compromise,” while Jodie said it’s all her parents to the park before it closed. The about teamwork. If they were to compare their marriage couple has been together ever since. to a Rocky Point Ride, they’d probably choose a roller
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NOW: Norm and Jodie Tellier hold the rescued table top. then: 17-year-old Norm and 14-yearold Jodie in 1986 just before their trip to Rocky Point where Jodie carved a message of love into one of the park’s picnic tables.
After hearing from Sean, the Tellier’s made arrangements to visit his home in Warwick to see the table. Norm and Jodie were willing to pay Sean for the tabletop, but that’s not how Sean works. “I don’t really like selling stuff, I’d rather give something away or trade for it. This table has their name on it, it’s their history, not mine. I’d much rather that they have it than me,” said Sean. An arrangement between the trio was then agreed upon. Norm and Jodie had taken a trip to Rocky Point shortly after the main entranceway arch was torn down. Prompted by Jodie, Norm made a mad dash and recovered one of the archway bricks as a memento of their time, and the love they shared, at the park. Both considered the brick one of the most sentimental items they’ve ever owned. A trade was then set up-they’d give Sean the brick in exchange for the table top. Now living in Warwick, the couple spent an hour with Sean last weekend at his home, sharing park stories, touring Sean’s collection, and taking a trip back in time by getting to sit in his Creature from The Black Lagoon House of Horrors car. They were then presented with Sean’s find.
coaster. “I would say it’s the Corkscrew, because you go around the loops and go back to where you started. What a ride,” said Norm. For Sean, this latest adventure was a chance to experience the living history of the park and to continue to tell the story of a place he loves as much as the Telliers. “People when they’re 14 usually don’t marry the same crush that they had back then, so I thought that it was pretty cool to find out that they were still together. It’s just an amazing story, think about how many people went to Rocky Point. The fact that I was able to find them right away was just unbelievable, what are the chances,” said Sean. “I thought my chances of finding them were zero. It was like me picking up that table was meant to happen.”
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My favorite American humorist was James Thurber, born in Columbus, Ohio: he wrote a witty essay about purchasing an American flag that has inspired this, my, slightly daffy dedication to the, um 48, I mean 50, stars on our mid-June festival of patriotism. This is my tale. Our little summer retreat in Narragansett..I mean, South Kingstown...has a thingy on the porch that holds a celebratory stars and stripes banner first installed as our Fourth of July gesture of welcome. My wife noted that we had left it to wave in the winds of fall and get itself tattered by the storms of all the seasons. “Take it down and buy a nice new one,” she declared. I called the numbers in my dog-eared old-time telephone book under the alphabetical category of “Flags.” Most of the emporia are located in Newport or maybe Warwick and I don’t have a GPS device to guide me there safe and sound. I listen courteously to the directions given helpfully but hopelessly by the proprietors, but then I sighed with despair once I had hung up the receiver. (I don’t have a pocket gadget thingy.) But by my own personal magic, or kismet, I came across a seller of what I sought who just happened to conduct his business two streets away from my lifetime residence. I rang the doorbell and the portal was opened by somebody I knew quite well! His name is Jerry. His mother came upstairs from the cellar where she keeps their accounts, to greet me. Alas, although they had big banners and fine flags, these were, I believed, too large for my purpose and place. I left in defeat. I tried Job Lot and voila! there was what I thought I sought, the Stars and Stripes, two of ‘em together in the slim package. This time I smiled slightly as I placed them carefully in my coupe. But how about the Rhode Island state variation, maybe better for the forthcoming summer months, with its iconic anchor and its white and gold hues that make it look almost like the sail of a ship out on the bay? Well, I stopped by the Providence Preservation headquarters on Meeting Street. No, they didn’t have such items, but they kindly and helpfully communicated with the gift shoppe in the State Capitol and sent me off cheerfully, BUT, they in turn only had wee ones. So i picked one little token and paid for it and sensed that my quest was not yet a success. “Cross the Henderson Bridge, head for Broadway, and you’ll meet a large plaster image of Uncle Sam all dressed up in red, white and blue,” the voice told me. Now, although I am a sometimes adventurous traveler, I am not blessed with a good sense of direction and I don’t really listen to the jargon of road maps. So it’s a big deal for me and I am pleased and relieved to find myself there and even with a choice of parking spaces. Whew! I had to try twice, because I got there before they opened, returned home, and went back a bit later, successfully, even easily...more or less. I got what I thought was the right and correct size Rhode Island symbol of Hope. Plus, they have seasonal flags. Pumpkin patches for fall, winter birds around your feeders for the snowy months, and flowers and hummingbirds for the duration of spring. So I now have three flags. A national, a local, and an ornithological/horticultural in manufactured or natural fabric. I took ‘em home to show off, uncertainly, to my wife who said, in no uncertain terms, “I would prefer diamonds.” Is any part of this story in the style of Thurber? Probably not, I am sorry and sad to confess. But I close this effort with a salute to the Flag nevertheless. Patriotism is a virtue no longer held in the highest regard or esteem in some quarters. It may be confused with nationalism or chauvinism of some sort, or even isolationism, but that is not the whole of it. It can also be an expression of gratitude, of loyalty, perhaps of nostalgia, maybe of an inspiration to contribute to your community. In my boyhood our alliance with the countries oppressed by the conquerors and yearning for freedom, those famous Four Freedoms, joining forces with places where partisans could rescue the victims and also liberators floating in silk parachutes like living flags dropping from the skies...created a common victory...for a brief spell. Then came the Cold War with its own betrayals. So, I change my tune, but by Flag Day on June 14, I will fly my collection from the corners of my small place to show respect for our soldiers and veterans, our neighbors along the riversides, the wild citizens of what’s left of our forests, and the promises, in our songs and poems, that our patriotism is as high-minded as the breezes above among our beaches that face the ocean of others.
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Help Dad eat his (grilled) vegetables this Father’s Day Few things in this world today are predictable. It’s still likely, though, that Father’s Day will find many dads manning (that’s an appropriate choice of words!) the backyard grill, or being hosted at the homes of grown children who have fired up the barbecue. And chances are that the dinner menu will feature red meat of some sort: ribs, steaks, burgers, hot dogs. It just seems the manly thing to do. But I also know that more and more men these days, like their spouses or significant others, are trying valiantly to follow a more healthy diet. Not only does that mean eating meat in greater moderation, but also featuring fresh produce more prominently on their plates. With that goal in mind, I’d like to share one of my favorite recipes for outdoor cooking: a salad made with hot-offthe-grill summer vegetables, tossed with a zesty dressing spiced up with a grilled jalapeno chile pepper.
GRILLED SPICY VEGETABLE SALAD
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1 red bell pepper, halved, stemmed, seeded and deveined 1 yellow bell pepper, halved, stemmed, seeded and deveined 1 small fennel bulb, trimmed and sliced lengthwise 1/3 inch thick 1 Asian eggplant, trimmed and sliced lengthwise 1/2 inch thick 1 ear of corn, shucked 1 small yellow onion, peeled, trimmed & sliced 1/3 inch thick and separated into rings 1 medium zucchini or yellow squash, trimmed & sliced lengthwise 1/2 inch thick 1 jalapeno chile 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for brushing Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved 1/3 cup fresh lime juice 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin Goat Cheese-Garlic Toasts (recipe follows) Preheat a fire in an outdoor grill. When the fire is hot, brush the bell peppers, fennel, eggplant, corn, onion, zucchini and jalapeno with oil and season with salt and pepper. Grill over moderately high heat for about 15 minutes, turning often, until the vegetables are lightly charred and tender.
Remove the charred, blistered peels from the bell peppers. Coarsely chop the peppers and transfer them to a large mixing bowl. Using a large, sharp knife, carefully cut the charred corn kernels from the cob and add them to the bowl. Coarsely chop the remaining vegetables and add them to the bowl along with the cherry tomatoes.
Using kitchen gloves if necessary to protect yourself from the jalapeno’s heat and its spicy juices, peel the charred skin from the chili, cut it in half, lengthwise, and discard the stem and seeds. Coarsely chop the jalapeno and put it in a blender.
Add to the blender the 2 tablespoons of olive oil, lime juice, cilantro and cumin. Blend until smoothly pureed. Pour this dressing over the vegetables, toss well and season with salt and pepper. Serve with Goat Cheese-Garlic Toasts.
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