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From: ag3@ukc.ac.uk (Arnold Goldman)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Help with Biography
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:58:15 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Various alt.rhode-island-ers have helped me before, and I
have one additional request, for assistance with which I
would be most grateful.

For my biography of the American writer Elliot Paul, I
need a photograph or two of 50 Harwood St, Cranston, and
of Harwood St itself.  I would gladly recompense anyone
who could take them for me, and send them to

     Professor Arnold Goldman
     Enterprise Kent
     University of Kent at Canterbury
     Canterbury, Kent CT2 7LT, England

Polaroid shots would do.  I don't need negatives.

Paul visited his brother Leslie and Leslie's wife Mildred
there in the 1940s.  On one occasion he invited the neighbor-
hood to a party, which went on for days.  He is supposed to
have seduced various of the female residents at this time.
(Wonder if anyone on Harwood St remembers this, or would
care to.)  Then he lived there in 1950 after his heart
attack, after which (not getting on with his sister-in-law),
he moved to 70 Victory Street.  I've visited Victory Street,
but I'd like to know how far Victory Street is from Harwood
Street.

Now if anyone is still with me--I realise that alt.rhode-
island seems mainly for ex-Rhode Islanders--there is one
other photograph I could also use: it is of the John Davis
Veteran's Administration Hospital in Providence, where Elliot
Paul died in 1958.  Hospital and grounds.

I try to visit every place Paul lived.  These are two I had
to miss.  It is important to give readers some sense of what
a place, a house, might have looked like, the size of rooms,
was the street tree-lined.  Though I can't get back to Rhode
Island again before the book is published, I'd like to "see"
Harwood Street and Leslie and Mildred's (were they "comfortable"
or "strapped", was it a nice or a poor neighborhood) and the
Hospital, if only in photos.  (I can hardly ask the Residents
to tell me if they are poor.)

So, any help, please.  And if you want to be in touch first,
use ag3@ukc.ac.uk or whatever will get your email to England.
Thanks. 
he moved
From: irons@spock.enet.dec.com (David Irons)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Unique words from Little Rhody
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:51:39 GMT
Reply-To: irons@spock.enet.dec.com (David Irons)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


You forgot that favorite Woonsocket food thing:  Dynamites!
I lived in Woonsocket for a few years, but I never tried the things.  It is available in Woonsocket, RI only!

dave
From: robinson@stout.geo.brown.edu (Darrin Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: DOGS (Was: Re: Homestate)
Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:48:35 GMT
Organization: Brown University, Providence RI 02912
NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.geo.brown.edu

In article <1jmjp5INNaab@bigboote.WPI.EDU> moe@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Michael Spadazzi) writes:
>
>
>There's a New York System open in Olneyville, a neighborhood in Providence.
>It's on Pocasset (sp?) Avenue.  Get off the exit from route 10 west and take
>a right...it will be on your right. 
>

Yeah... it's a few store up from my record store Hi-Tone Records.

>
>
>|  Michael Spadazzi   | Quote:                                    |
>|  Worcester Polytech |  "Something somebody says about something"|
>|  moe@wpi.wpi.edu    |                                           |

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From: tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM (tgendron 2.0 home)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:11:16 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM
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In article 20069@rayssd.ssd.ray.com, d8b@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Denise M. Boudria) writes:

>>Speaking of pizza and Rhode Islandisms, I have friends from New York State
>and they think it's strange when i order pizzas.  They order pies.  They
>never call them pizzas and they say everyone back home calls them pies.  They've
>lived in several different parts of the country and claim this is the only
>place a pizza pie is called just pizza.  What do you hear in the rest of the
>world???
>
>Denise

In Maryland I hear pizza as opposed to just pies. When I lived in Mass it was
pizza, when we visit in-laws each summer in Maine it's pizza... (although
usually we opt for lobster :) )

TomG




Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: vcr@cs.brown.edu (Vincent C. Rubino)
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:23:03 GMT

In article <9301211846.AA15790.V3.4@gilly.UUCP> gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer) writes:
>tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM (tgendron 2.0 home) writes:
>
>>So Who has the best pizza in RI. I'll check it out when I visit in July.
>
>I haven't eaten there in a while, but I always liked Mutts & Geoff's
>(one's sandwiches, one's pizza-n-stuff, I never bothered to remember which
>is which) on Benefit St. in Providence.

Update on the Mutts & Geoff's post... 

Geoffs is now on Thayer Street just down the block from the Store 24...

Mutts is now closed and has been replaced by a Checkers Pizza.  Decent
pizza, but not as good as Mutts (IMHO).

Vince 

Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: lucasg@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Greg E. Lucas)
Subject: Re: more unique Rhody-isms
Reply-To: lucasg@rpi.edu
Organization: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:39:06 GMT

In article <1jpi3iINNpl@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>, tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM (Tom Gendron owner) writes:
|> "Salty Brian", now there's a Rhody-ism for ya. Who growing up in RI could forget
|> listening to Salty in the Morning on WPRO am waiting for no school cancelations
|> during "operation snow ball". No school Coventry, Scituate, no school Foster/Gloster...
|> 
|> TomG
|> 
|> Or is it Salty Brine? 

Yeah, Salty Brine, no school Foster/Gloucester!!!  Of course we _never_ heard Salty say no school North Kingstown, they used to have us go to school and then send us back home again.
From: burns@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Pepper sticks
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:00:39 GMT
Reply-To: burns@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Organization: Geology Department, University of California, Davis

Hi, I'm at the Univ. of California.  I just discovered this group.  Nice to know other Rhode Island expatriates miss the place too.
What I miss, even more than RI pizza, is those biscuits you can get at Italianbakeries.  Egg biscuits, wine biscuits, and especially pepper biscuits.  I 
would kill for a bag of Palmieri's pepper biscuits.  I get my sister to mail 
them to me.  I can't find them anywhere in California, not even in San
Francisco, which is supposed to have a sizable Italian community.  Anyone knowwhere I can find them out here?  EB
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
Subject: Re: Quahog...
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:18:57 GMT

In article <arch.728095948@cisco.com> arch@cisco.com (Arch Mott) writes:
> and some of us just
>   can't resist correcting them with our own (possibly incorrect 
information)

At least you got the correct scientific name, and not venus mercenaria.  
Do you suppose that cherrystones might be local name for immature 
quahogs? Like veal vs beef and lamb vs mutton? Would you now like to take 
on wampum?  For what  it is worth, you can get all of these questions and more answered at the International Quahog Festival held every fall in Wickford.  Now, does anybody have the formula for making quahog chilie?

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I worked as a technical writer ... editing manuals ... on how to dispose 
of sewage in permafrost; we all had to wear white shirts -- that was 
mandatory -- and I was fired at the end of two weeks for spending too much 
time staring out the window.  
(Edward Abbey)
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From: gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Unique little words from Little Rhody
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:25:32 -0600
Organization: Flat Earth Liberation Front Against TV
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

sk1@st-andrews.ac.uk (Scott Koterbay) writes:

>I'm not really up on things, but I do remember reading somewhere that
>people in Rhode Island call dustbunnies (those things living underneath
>your bed that look like something the cat puked up) something completely
>different from the rest of the world.

Hmm. Don't know about that, but I've always called inetd the ether-bunny....


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Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: mike@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com (Mike Bouvier)
Subject: Re: Unique little words from Little Rhody
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:22:52 GMT

>
>From: sk1@st-andrews.ac.uk (Scott Koterbay)
>
>Being a Rhode Islander exiled here in Scotland for six years, 
>I'm not really up on things, but I do remember reading somewhere that
>people in Rhode Island call dustbunnies (those things living underneath
>your bed that look like something the cat puked up) something completely
>different from the rest of the world.
>Any comments?
>Scott

Coming from a french-canadian background and living in a 'french' neighborhood,
the term that I grew up with for dustbunnies was 'bidoux'(sp). The 'i' is
a short i sound and 'doux' pronounced like 'do'.
It's probably just a canadian slang word. 

					Mike
From: moe@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Michael Spadazzi)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:13:25 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

In article <1jmq9rINN3e5@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM writes:
>
>So Who has the best pizza in RI. I'll check it out when I visit in July.
>
>TomG
>
>

Cascerta's Pizza on Federal Hill has the best pizza I have ever eaten (besides
mom's)

First Runner Up:  Pizzaria Uno's near RI Mall.
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Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: acleasby@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Andrew Cleasby)
Subject: Re: Rhode Island'isms
Organization: Brandeis University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:23:39 GMT

jbc@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jeffrey B. Collemer) writes:

>  IMHO, I believe that Twins Pizza in North Providence (Which was rebuilt)
>has the best pizza in Rhode Island, followed by Town Pizza in East Providence.

>As for the Rhode Island expressions, wearing your rubbers in the rain is
>definately one expression that will turn heads anywhere but Rhody.

>But one other claims to fame is the 'dews' in Cranston.

I'm from Cranston (proud of it?) and have never heard of the 'dews.'  What
exactly is that?

-Andrew
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: mike@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com (Mike Bouvier)
Subject: Re: Pizza and "Rhodyisms"
Organization: Harris CSD, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Distribution: ne
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:14:53 GMT

In article <ZPOPE.93Jan27131711@sloop.osf.org> zpope@osf.org writes:
>
>
>You better look again.  Justification for calling an Ottoman a barbarian is
>slight if it's defensible at all.  By the way isn't a hassock what a priest
>wears? ;^)
>=bill
>
>
I did look again and I appolgize to any Turkish people who I might have
offended by refering to them as barbarians. I always did hate History:(.


And a priest wears a Cassock. 


				Mike
From: jmetz@charlie.usd.edu
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Date: 26 Jan 93 07:26:28 GMT
Reply-To: jmetz@charlie.usd.edu
Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept.

In article <1jn3ooINNbt0@cat.cis.Brown.EDU>, robinson@stout.geo.brown.edu (Darrin Robinson) writes:
>In article <1jmq9rINN3e5@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM writes:
>>One thing I miss about RI and NE in general is the wonderful pizza that is
>>available. 
>
>[stuff deleted...]
>>
>>So Who has the best pizza in RI. I'll check it out when I visit in July.
>>
>>TomG
>
>
>Wood Oven Pizza on Bannister's Wharf in downtown Newport, RI (while pricey)
>is probably the BEST pizza in Rhode Island and perhaps New England (IMHO).
>
>Darrin
>
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WHICH reminds me... does anyone know who won the chowder cookoff this
past summer?  The year before it was The Wharf Deli.  :)  mmmmmm..  :)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: rbutera@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert John Butera)
Subject: Re: more unique Rhody-isms
Organization: Rice University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:03:18 GMT

In article <1jpi3iINNpl@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM writes:
>"Salty Brian", now there's a Rhody-ism for ya. Who growing up in RI could forget
>listening to Salty in the Morning on WPRO am waiting for no school cancelations
>during "operation snow ball". No school Coventry, Scituate, no school Foster/Gloster...
>

My alltime favorite, sometime in the late 70's, was " ... no school in
the entire state of Rhode Island except Cumberland public schools."
It took our school bus over an hour to get to school, and that was
after it was a half hour late to the bus stop ....



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Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: d8b@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Denise M. Boudria)
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Organization: Raytheon Submarine Signal Division
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:21:25 GMT

In article <1jmq9rINN3e5@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM writes:
>One thing I miss about RI and NE in general is the wonderful pizza that is
>available. Here in Maryland we have pizza hut and lidos and they don't even
>resemble pizza compared to say... Famous Pizza or Bill's pizza (coventry and WW).
[snip - snip]
>
>TomG

Speaking of pizza and Rhode Islandisms, I have friends from New York State
and they think it's strange when i order pizzas.  They order pies.  They
never call them pizzas and they say everyone back home calls them pies.  They've
lived in several different parts of the country and claim this is the only
place a pizza pie is called just pizza.  What do you hear in the rest of the
world???

Denise
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: heiser@wam.umd.edu (Mark Donald Heiser)
Subject: Spinach Pies et al
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:34:01 GMT

                                                                                
                                                                                
   I agree, finding a good spinach pie is a difficult task ...                  
   at least if you live in Maryland.  Anyway, I'll cast my                      
   vote for Casserta's Wimpy Skippy (Skimpy Wimpy??) ... Whatever,              
   never could get the name right.  Used to go to the one in Newport            
   every time I was home.  Of course that one closed.  Then I had to            
   head up to the Casserta's near Lechmere in Swansea(?) but that one           
   closed too.  Hmmmmm a bad pattern here.  ahhh next to a good                 
   stuffie and clamcakes from Flo's Drive In, these things were hard            
   to beat.                                                                     
                                                                                
   As far as Rhode Islandisms, I remember using the term 'package               
   store' for a liquor store and the phrase 'packie runs' for any               
   trip to the liquor store.  used to get the strangest looks from              
   people when i went off to Purdue.  They didn't have a clue what              
   I was talking about.  Of course, this may be unique to Portsmouth            
   and the influence of the Navy on that community.  don't even know            
   if the phrase it still in use there.                                         
                                                                                
   Just my 2 cents worth.                                                       
                                                                                
                                                                                
   Mark
From: Spam@cup.portal.com (Sarah T Winston)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 09:05:04 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

Ah, Mutt's Pizza. I was the night manager at Mutt's during my sophomore year
at RISD ('80) and I think we bankrupted the place by the sheer amount of
STUFF we used to put on 'em.
 
The owner was a man named Geoff Somethingorother who owned a meat packing
(distributing?) company, so we always had lots of ammo. He opened Geoff's
(the sandwich shop) first, then Mutt's a few years later (yeah, he named
it that way to be cute).
 
Shortly after I left, Mutt's was written up in People magazine as one of
the ten best pizza joints in America...but I'm afraid that had little to
do with the quality of the food. Seems Brooke Shields had take-out there
when she was visiting Brown University.
 
Sarah <I-have-scars-on-my-body-still-from-my-year-at-Mutt's> Winston
Spam@cup.portal.com
 
p.s. Anybody ever been to Atomic Pizza? (Warwick, I think). The pizza was
     awful, but the decor was a definite time-warp experience.
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From: rbutera@owlnet.rice.edu (Robert John Butera)
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:07:50 GMT

In article <1jmq9rINN3e5@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> tgendron@caneel.East.Sun.COM writes:

>So Who has the best pizza in RI. I'll check it out when I visit in July.

I have several favorites, all distinctly different.

*	DePetrillos in North Providence.  Its just a take-out Italian
	bakery, but they sell great "pizza strips".  Not really pizzas
	(more like bread with sauce and spices) but great.  Awesome
	spinach pies.  Its address escapes me at the moment (douglas
	ave?)

*	Julios, on Mineral Spring Ave. in N. Providence (if its still
	there)

*	I'll get major flamage for this from some, but my all time 
	favorite pizza is .... Papa Ginos.  Marc Anthony's in Onset,
	Mass. is a close second.

Is Twin's Pizza still around?  I remember it burnt down, but wasn't it
rebuilt?  There was also a hole-in-the-wall pizza joint near Federal
Hill that we loved, but its name and address escapes me.

I miss every town having a "<town or person> House of Pizza"


ObRhodyism: Ann and Hope in Cumberland.  Dell's Lemonade




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From: jbc@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jeffrey B. Collemer)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Rhode Island'isms
Date: 22 Jan 1993 03:15:18 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu

  IMHO, I believe that Twins Pizza in North Providence (Which was rebuilt)
has the best pizza in Rhode Island, followed by Town Pizza in East Providence.

As for the Rhode Island expressions, wearing your rubbers in the rain is
definately one expression that will turn heads anywhere but Rhody.

But one other claims to fame is the 'dews' in Cranston.
From: prodger@leland.Stanford.EDU (phillip prodger)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:30:50 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA

In article <9301232350.AA24870.V3.4@gilly.UUCP> gilly!dave@quack.UB.com (Dave Fischer) writes:
>jak@cs.brown.edu (Jak Kirman) writes:

>I do go to the bakery just up the street though - "Daily Bread". Good
>cheap fresh bread. Their "Soft Italien" rocks.

I was telling some friends here about daily bread.  They couldn't believe
a store could sell biscotti for 35 cents a piece (Californians are up on
these things)...Goin' rate here is $1.25.
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From: tmt@tonto.osf.org (Tom Talpey)
Subject: Re: Pizza in RI
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:09:03 GMT

Caserta's, no contest. Is that the "hole-in-the-wall near Federal Hill?"
They closed all the branches (Newport, Smithfield) a few years ago. By
the way they knocked down the shack next door and they have a parking lot,
in which people can now triple park the Oldsmobiles.

Yes, Twins is there on Mineral Spring but I wouldn't go out of my way
for it. Famous is okay but it's even more out of the way - isn't it in
Scituate, not Coventry? Ronzio's!? Give me a break. Joe Mollicone owned
it for chrissake.

Anyone ever check out Kikapoo's, right over the Conn line off Route 6?
You have to drive down a dirt road to get to it. That place was legend.

Tom Talpey
tmt@osf.org
From: arch@cisco.com (Arch Mott)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Quahog...
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:52:28 GMT
Organization: cisco Systems
NNTP-Posting-Host: amott-ss2.cisco.com

In <C1G9vr.4Ez@sunfish.usd.edu> jmetz@charlie.usd.edu writes:

>Actually, just to clarify a point.  A 'quahog' actually is a *type* of
>clam, smaller in size than ordinary clams.

NOT!

  To quote webster:


qua.hog also qua.haug \'kwo-.hog, 'k(w)o-, -.hag\, n [Narraganset poquauhock] 
  : a thick-shelled American clam (Mercenaria mercenaria)

  [note that here's no mention of "smaller" than anything]

  Generally speaking, my clam experience dictates that a Quahog is a large
  cherrystone, both of these being hard, thick-shelled clams (I believe 
  also sometimes called littlenecks), which are not to be confused with 
  Steamers which are long-necked and soft-shelled.

  Steamers are steamed and served with drawn butter. Cherrystones are served 
  raw on the half-shell. Quahogs (In my experience) are used for things like
  chowder or baking and stuffing.

  I realize I'm stating the obvious to all you genuine RI'ers, but some folks 
  go out of there way to propagate incorrect information, and some of us just
  can't resist correcting them with our own (possibly incorrect information)

  Next thing you know, someone who's not from the pacific northwest will be
  telling us that a geoduck is a giant duck imported from Japan by General 
  Motors. 
 
  (umount /soapbox)

  -Arch.
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