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Pleasant Valley Parkway is one of 13 miles of Providence streets being closed to through traffic to provide extra space for safe social distancing.

This issue of my pandemic journal is a continuation of my exploration of 19th-century American expansion westward. In March 2022 I covered my great-grandmother Christina Miller’s adventure in frontier Nebraska. This month I turn to my great-uncle…

Thanks to COVID-19, life looked different for everyone, even our children. This picture is a representation of the importance of play and the resilience of our children. (Ages 5 and 2)

I learned about this archive opportunity and realized the…

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…

Taken from the passenger-side window of a car, this photograph only partially captures the extraordinarily long line for the drive thru of the Starbucks in the Chapel View shopping center in Cranston. Taken at 3:46 pm on 25 April 2020.

Sign installed by Smithfield Fire Fighters (IAFF 2050) at the intersection of Rt. 7 and Rt. 116 in Smithfield. It reads "Together we stand / Six feet apart / Stay Healthy / Help Stop the Spread". Photograph taken at 2:55 pm on April 25, 2020.

I had to bring something to the Rhode Island Foundation for work. This was maybe my first time downtown since the lockdown started. I'd heard of Mask Up RI and thought a photo in front of this iconic Providence building would be a good addition to…

The posters are pop art images of Governor Gina Raimondo and Nicole Alexander-Scott, Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health. Following the governor's use of "Knock it Off" in a daily briefing, the phrase became a symbol of her leadership…

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

Posters in Lippitt Park, on an electrical box, in support of prisoner release.