Summer officially starts on Wednesday, June 21, but COOL SUMMER NIGHTS, the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC)'s line-up of summer concerts, kick off on June 9. COOL SUMMER NIGHTS concerts are made possible in part by The Providence Tourism Council (PTC). B101 is the media sponsor of the COOL SUMMER NIGHTS concerts.
In the waning days of 2020, as a pandemic ravages New England, Evan Smith has a notion that buoys him.
It contrasts sharply with the nightmarish challenges that tested him this year when he says disease-driven economic conditions forced him to cut staff at his travel-focused marketing firm, Discover Newport.
In Smith’s vision, it’s mid to late summer 2021. By then, vaccines have protected huge segments of the population from the virus that causes COVID-19.
People all over the Northeast are traveling, dining out and breathing more freely.
“We will start to feel freedom of mobility,” Smith says. “That is going to be a euphoric, wonderful thing for a lot of people.”