A dozen counselors from the Newport County Community Mental Health Center are volunteering. At local shops along Thames Street and America's Cup Boulevard, clerks and managers report that shoppers have not even been talking about the crash. To Nancy Speroni-Marlowe, owner of Arkware, a clothing store, the silence seems heavy with meaning. So I know everyone's aware of it. Others had different theories.
People talk about it.
She is a writer, and is interested in what people are thinking. It occurs to her, though, that she hasn't spoken with any locals about it.