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Photographer Wolf Matthewson found out an interesting coincidence while capturing this month’ s cover photo highlighting the Farm Coast at Middendorf Farm in Little Compton. This piece of coastal land peppered with grazing cattle is protected working farmland that was owned by Ambassador J. William Middendorf II.“ I actually came across it on my own while driving around photographing the Farm Coast,” Matthewson says.“ While I was taking the photos, I spoke with a neighbor who told me the story of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II and the farm. What made it especially striking was that Middendorf had died just the day before, on Oct. 24, 2025, at age 101. I had no idea of that when I stopped to photograph the cattle and landscape.”
Former Rhode Island Monthly editorial intern Julia Cote scribed a profile on Colleen Daley Ndoye in this year’ s Bannister Awards feature, as well as a story on The Yellow House bookstore in Tiverton for The 401. She joined the magazine as a summer intern after graduating from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, and was inspired to explore her home state in search of stories.“ Being post-grad and returning home from the college town I’ d spent the last four years, I knew I ran the risk of feeling stifled by my hometown bubble,” Cote says.“ The work I did with Rhode Island Monthly was a step toward putting down roots of my own in Rhode Island.”
Former Rhode Island Monthly summer intern and University of Rhode Island student Lynsie Olivier also worked on this year’ s Bannister Awards feature. She says interviewing Dina Bruce for the profile gave her the opportunity to see how much passion and hard work goes into making Rhode Island a better place.“ Bruce works tirelessly to improve Rhode Island’ s OpenDoors organization,” Olivier says.“ I was able to learn about our Ocean State community and see how Rhode Islanders meet adversity head-on with compassion and dedication.”
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