Features
OCTOBER 2020
Contents
Departments
8 CONTRIBUTORS
10 FROM THE PUBLISHER
12 CHATTER
15 CityState
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Halloween Haunts
Residents in Warwick and East Greenwich turn on the fear factor with homemade
Halloween displays in their front yards. By Jamie Coelho
17 CURRENT
Faces of the housing crisis;
meet Amy Bruni; custom
collaboration.
22 STYLE
Switch up your fall routine
with locally made products.
25 REPORTER
Are Rhode Island’s elections
at risk?
33 TO-DO LIST
October’s best activities.
HALLOWEEN: WOLF MATTHEWSON; OYSTER FARMER AND DINING: ANGEL TUCKER.
42
42 The Future
of Farming
Local farmers are pivoting
to online sales, pickup and
delivery in the face of the
pandemic, while trying to
gain access to farmland
and aquaculture sites.
By Jamie Coelho
61 Excellence
in Nursing
Rhode Island Monthly
and the Rhode Island
State Nurses Association
honor thirteen of the
state’s top nurses.
Edited by Kaitlyn Murray
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77 YOUR TOWN
Explore the hidden treasures
in your town.
83 AT HOME
A designer transformed a little
red schoolhouse by the sea into
a comfortable home.
88 DINING OUT
Two deliciously indulgent
comfort food joints have us
breaking out our sweatpants.
120 SNAPSHOT
The Bells stables.
On the cover: Alby Brandon of Brandon
Family Farm. Photograph by Angel Tucker.
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