“You just stepped onto 400-year-old wood boards, some of them as wide as a foot wide,” Bob Burke said while stepping into the mini-museum he created on Weybosset Street, around the corner from his French restaurant, Pot au Feu. “This is white oak and this would have been growing at the time that Roger Williams, […]
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Commentary: Newport has survived recessions, wars and the departures of the navy, but nothing like this
Newport, Rhode Island is famous as a summer playground for the rich and powerful.The city has known hard times before. But The Public’s Radio political analyst Scott MacKay says its tourism-fueled economy is ill-prepared for a pandemic.
