This is Halloween!
Carving pumpkins? Trick or treating? Wearing a scary costume? Ghost displays on the lawn? Spooky music in the air?...
Joy Harjo, first Native American U.S. poet laureate, to deliver poetry reading at URI on Oct. 28
Special event coincides with United States’ 250th anniversary and National Native American Heritage Month A press release issued by the...
RI arts events explore death through creativity, conversation, and community
“It’s like a celebration. This is how I’m interpreting the spirit of this person, so that spirit continues to...
Remembering Ida Lewis
Legendary Light Keeper of Lime Rock By MATTHEW LAWRENCE, Beacon Media Contributing Writer Oct 14, 2026 This story was...
Q & A with author and publisher Grace Calk
Welcome to the Ocean State Stories “family,” Grace! We discovered your work in LitArts RI, headed by our good friend Jodie Noel Vinson....
Book banning harms more than books, says URI education leader
Dean Danielle Dennis, literacy researcher, says campaigns for library censorship have consequences for society A press release issued by...
Why young journalists are still answering the call, and why the field needs them
Rhode Island journalists, educators, and students entering the field say the news business is changing shape, not disappearing Bekah...
Water Over the Dam: A Retrospective on the Big River Reservoir Debacle
Sixty years after the state took 8,600 acres of private property for the ill-fated Big River reservoir, one last...
Q & A with Sarah Elizabeth Mangiarelli, founder, Pieces of Perception
Thanks, Sarah, for joining us at Ocean State Stories. Momentarily, we’ll get into Pieces of Perception, but let’s start...
Q & A with Jessica David, co-founder and board member of Local Return
“Our strategy also rests on changing the narrative, which I think of as the ‘hearts and minds’ strategy. The truth...
Q & A with Warwick artist Bob Eggleton
Welcome to Ocean State Stories, Bob. Your cover on the Necronomicon issue of Motif magazine grabbed us immediately. It’s...
Summer Ends
“Rather than ending abruptly, summer in Rhode Island is gently packed away for the colder months. In its place...
AccessPoint RI empowers people while changing lives
“It’s so important that we bring awareness to the fact that folks in our programs need the same things...