Every year, our Rhode Island Monthly art and edit team tries to come up with a creative cover idea for our annual Best of Rhode Island issue. It is our
In 1978, in the tail wind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamour and sophistication. Fresh out of college and The Rhode Island author delves into her past as an airline stewardess andreveals the ways in which the job empowered her despite its roots in sexist standards.
Twenty-six years ago in February, Marcia Ranglin-Vassell left Women and Infants Hospital with twin baby boys and an IV needle still stuck in her arm. She
In 1663, King Charles II’s royal charter granted the citizens of Providence Plantations the right to freely fish. In 1842, the authors of the state’s Rhode Island beachgoers and waterfront landowners have a long history of battling it out over shoreline access boundaries.