Can you imag­ine a pri­vate home with 30 to 40 looms always set up and ready for weav­ing? Our mem­ber, Norma Sta­ley, has just such a home right here in Saun­der­stown. Here she runs the Saun­der­stown Weav­ing School, which she and…

Empie asked me to join her as she picked up two large can­is­ters of soup to be deliv­ered to the fish­er­men on the wharfs at Gal­liee. Spon­sored by the Seamen’s Insti­tute, she and other vol­un­teers ladle out soup to the cold and hun­gry on a twice weekly basis.

As you know, she is the Sec­re­tary and one of the found­ing mem­bers of SRI at Home and…

Last week I went to Jamestown for a cup of tea with Con­nie Andrews at her lovely, old home, over­look­ing the East Pas­sage of Nar­ra­gansett Bay. We were going to dis­cuss some ideas for SRI (did touch on them lightly) before we got car­ried away in ani­mated conversation.

I caught up with Dan walk­ing his favorite black poo­dle “Zach” on a clear and chilly late after­noon. Dan, as you know is Pres­i­dent and one of the founders of SRI at Home. We spoke briefly about his hopes that SRI would grow to more houses and that he would see more vol­un­teers in 2010.

He seemed dis­traught that the foot­ball sea­son was over with…