I’m proud to say that I’m a full-blooded Rhode Islander. I spent many summer days taking turns on the carousel, feasting on clamcakes and chowder in the Shore Dinner Hall, and honing my skills at the midway games. For my senior honors thesis, I chose to focus on Rocky Point Park and the working class people, entrepreneurs, and technological innovations that helped to make it great.
I concentrated in History and American Civilization at Brown University. Since graduating, I relocated to the DC area and work as a digital history associate at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. I create film modules for the Teaching American History site and grant and conduct photo research for Children and Youth in World History.
I began uncovering the history of Rocky Point Park in the spring of 2006. What I
found was both expected and surprising. Faded black and white images on torn photo paper, newspaper articles glorifying the pristine shoreline and the flavor of the New England clam, and baseball teams that played on Sundays. I want to share some of those unusual and thoroughly familiar findings and flesh out events at the Point that I didn’t give enough attention to. I feel its about time that the Point gets her due online.
Feel free to share your stories, pictures, videos, and memories with me and I’ll be sure to include them on the site.
