Browse Items (1657 total)

Empty parking lots at Twin River Casino on Saturday, March 14, 2020, the first day of closure.

Sign at casino entrance from Old Louisquisset Pike reads "Casino closed until further notice" on Saturday, March 14, 2020, the first day of closure.

The price of gas continues to drop as fewer vehicles are on the road.

An uplifiting sign seen in Tricycle's Ice Cream's window during a night walk. I felt anxious and suffocated, so I walked around the West End. I had seen several signs encouraging positivity in the neighborhood. I appreciated the simplicity of this…

Westminster Street in Providence at sundown, so deserted and quiet that all that can be heard is the robin’s evening song.

I am a public high school teacher from Cranston High School West. On Friday April 13th the governor made an announcement to shut down all schools until further notice due to the Corona Virus pandemic. This was a very scary time for all but to keep…

Before the arrival of Europeans in the Americans in the late 15th century, the Pokanoket people lived in a relatively disease-free environment.Starting in 1616, those same people began to suffer from a series of pandemics that wiped out up to 90% of…

Providence parks department's community gardener in residence, MJ Robinson, created this signage for community gardens located on city park land. It was also shared more widely through the RI Food Policy Council's Covid-19 resource page for…

Write Rhode Island’s COVID-19 flash non-fiction program Our Lives Now, a co-creation of School One and local authors Hester Kaplan and Taylor Polites, invites young people in grades 7 through 12 in the state of Rhode Island to submit a 400-word…