Do you know where the geo­graph­i­cal cen­ter of Rhode Island is? Or what the real name of the “Super­man Build­ing” in Prov­i­dence is? These and 18 other ques­tions make up the fun Rhode Island Trivia Chal­lenge, found online at RhodeIslandTrivia.com.

Try it, and see how many cor­rect answers you’ll get. (You can even let us know in the com­ments, if you dare.)

New Zealan­der (Kiwi) Jane Seabrook is a fan­tas­tic illus­tra­tor, with some astute obser­va­tions and her own brand of logic, Furry Logic. She has made a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of images called Grow­ing Old, which she has gra­ciously allowed us to publish here.

If you like what you see, you should also have a look at Jane Seabrook’s own web­site, furrylogic.com, and at the…

Here’s a fun clip of a cou­ple of young twins talk­ing. The baby stuff may have run its course (given the two recent clips of Beethoven and gig­gles), but this might have merit as some­thing of a pre­cur­sor to the kind of con­vers­ing we engage in in our golden years.

An expanded look at the ten book selec­tions made by mem­bers in response to the recent E-​​news poll on best books.

Inspired by the sat­is­fac­tions dis­cov­ered on our group-​​​​SRI trip to a pro­duc­tion of “Cats” in Feb­ru­ary at Bris­tol Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Fall River, we are work­ing to orga­nize group atten­dance at an up-​​​​coming pro­duc­tion of “Hello, Dolly!”.

The set­ting will be the very accom­mo­dat­ing Mar­garet L. Jack­son Arts…

On Fri­day, March 25th, we enjoyed the first of what may turn out to be a suc­ces­sion of reg­u­lar, infor­mal SRI get-​​​​togethers.

The event found ten of our mem­bers gath­ered for an agenda-​​​​free, brown-​​​​bag lunch at St. John’s Chapel in Saun­der­stown. It was a moment (actu­ally 75 min­utes) which gave us a chance to get to know each other a lit­tle bet­ter and to share dis­cus­sion about a num­ber of…