Every dish on Aguardente’s Portuguese tapas and Guatemalan-influenced menu tells a story.
Conjure, for a second, circa-1750s Usquepaug Village, a rural area in West Kingston dotted with vernacular homes built for farmers and mill families. (If you’re as impressionable as I am, the Hocus Pocus 2 set might come to mind.) On this little corner property, adjacent to Kenyon’s Grist Mill, not much has changed since then. It’s as if the land was placed…
This Halloween, decorate the table with a box full of spooky decor and delicious food by The Board Lady, Laura Ferry. Photography courtesy of The Board Lady. Your eyes can’t help but dart across the colorful, expansive board topped with cubed and sliced cheese, cheese filled with jam in a heart-shaped hole, fresh fruits, two or three different meats, and…
Photography courtesy of Hearthside House Museum.What happens after death? The Hearthside House in Lincoln hosts exhibits and events in October and November that discuss death, mourning and the afterlife in the nineteenth century. During the month of October, Hearthside resurrects the memory of past homeowner Simon E. Thornton with the exhibit “Gone But Not Forgotten,” as well as guided tours…
(Photo credit: Chris Whirlow/Residential Properties) The Apple King’s house would be red, wouldn’t it? (To be fair, T.K. Winsor was best-known for his Rhode Island Greenings, but that hue probably isn’t available in Benjamin Moore’s Historical Collection.) The Winsor family, pioneers in the region’s commercial apple industry, harvested and sold dozens of varietals from their 100-acre farm in Smithfield. And…
Home conversions require some degree of clairvoyance. A person has to see a structure — in this case, a stable — and think: Despite all evidence to the contrary, this place has the potential to be a home. Not a shelter for horses or less-than-discerning humans. But a home. Then, they make it so. The bones are critical, to be…
Some folks remember this place as Shady Isle, a beloved spot where families enjoyed clambakes beneath the trees. Others might recall its tenure as Pleasure Island, a rollicking banquet venue that went dark over a bridge dispute. Last year, the land mass just off the coast of Swansea was in the news again when a prospective buyer hoped to run…
Photography by Angel Tucker.Outside, Inside It takes a leap of faith to see beyond a dowdy exterior and recognize the potential beauty beneath, but that was the happy outcome of this formerly frumpy 1940s house perched near the tip of Warwick Neck. The addition of a dining room in its previous life had turned the home’s symmetrical shape into a…
Randall Realtors’ Sue Moore knows old houses aren’t for everyone. “You have to see the light go on in people’s eyes” when they visit for the first time, she says, instead of dollar signs. Moore would know; she owns an antique house in Wickford Village. So when she first listed this little beauty, within walking distance to the village’s shops…
Set-building has already begun at Chase Farm in Lincoln for the sequel of the timeless Disney film, Hocus Pocus 2.
