Jack W. Clark: When Luck Presented, He Ran With It… He looks every bit like his alter-ego—that charming, perennially-young “American Bandstand” icon, Dick Clark. In reality, Jack Wade Clark is a case study for why folks should never make assumptions about others. In his youth, he was seen, by other classmates, as privileged. After all, […]
This West Warwick native, son of William and Jeannine (Cayouette) Gallucci, contemplates where he and his wife, Carol, might live in the future, when they retire. Like many others, they consider southern realms (Florida), possibly renting for a while, before buying. If anything, Gary carefully studies situations, before he acts. After all, he didn’t […]
Patricia Serpa: ‘I Know a Guy’ Gets New Meaning We’ve all heard the phrase above and we usually associate it with someone in the Mafia or the Underworld, someone who’s busily at work in nefarious activity, someone who skirts legitimate channels. That’s not how Representative Patricia Serpa, District 27, understands the phrase. She says she […]
Dick Hughes: West Warwick’s ‘Renaissance Man’… “Dye coming,” was the warning Dick Hughes heard as a boy, swimming in the mill river by his home. Boyhood friends would take turns performing sentry duty, calling out to others when a fresh stream of dye waste was released by the mill into the river. They’d swim to […]
Dates and venues will be published on this website soon and fact I’m doing guest-speaking is pretty ironic, since I froze–many years ago– in front of my “Problems in American Democracy” class, in high school. I suffered severe public-speaking phobia that I had to overcome or never succeed in my profession. You see, as teacher, […]