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PORTSMOUTH  Prudence Island residents had a lot to talk about during the Town Council’s annual excursion there Saturday morning  the status of the Mill Creek project, …

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Prudence Island RI: COVID makes it a magnet for remote workers

PORTSMOUTH To the east, on one side of Narragansett Bay, in Bristol, a ferry’s engines thrum. To the west, the sun races for treelines over Warwick and East Greenwich. Nancy Howland is right in the middle of the Bay, on firm soil, behind the wheel of her Ford Ranger.  The 68-year-old is game for sharing a few observations about Prudence Island life during a pandemic year that has brought death, sickness and sweeping change to much of the world. She is grateful: As far as she knows, she says, no one on Prudence has contracted COVID-19. Islands have been romanticized in the battle against some of history’s worst plagues, either as dumping grounds for the incurably ill or as havens from diseases rampant on the mainland. 

Dear Prudence: COVID brings change to an island famous for resisting it

With influence of COVID, Prudence Island is seeing signs of change Mark Reynolds, The Providence Journal © The Providence Journal / David DelPoio Passengers some of them workers commuting descend the pier after disembarking from the 7:45 a.m. ferry from Bristol to Prudence Island on Thursday. PORTSMOUTH To the east, on one side of Narragansett Bay, in Bristol, a ferry’s engines thrum. To the west, the sun races for tree lines over Warwick and East Greenwich. Nancy Howland is right in the middle of the Bay, on firm soil, behind the wheel of her Ford Ranger.  The 68-year-old is game for sharing a few observations about Prudence Island life during a pandemic year that has brought death, sickness and sweeping change to much of the world.

COVID makes Prudence Island magnet for people working remotely

Prudence Island has resisted change for generations. But things are different in this year of the pandemic.