Rhode Island is on TV!!!

[phesina]

I lived for about a year and a half in an apartment on Angell St. in a house that had once been the home of famed Providence resident H.P. Lovecraft !

[Freedom]

I lived for about a year and a half in an apartment on Angell St. in a house that had once been the home of famed Providence resident H.P. Lovecraft !

They have tours going by that House ALL THE TIME!

[phesina]

598/600 Angell St.? I don't remember tour buses then, but maybe I just wasn't around at the right times.

I had the strangest roommates in that house -

“They seemed to be enormous, iridescent cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter. From their apexes projected four flexible, cylindrical members, each a foot thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves. These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and sometimes extended to any distance up to about ten feet. Terminating two of them were enormous claws or nippers. At the end of a third were four red, trumpet-like appendages. The fourth terminated in an irregular yellowish globe some two feet in diameter and having three great dark eyes ranged along its central circumference. Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles. The great base of the central cone was fringed with a rubbery, grey substance which moved the whole entity through expansion and contraction.”

All I could say when I came home was: “Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!”

I did go see his grave in Swan Point Cemetery at one point. There were little plastic lizards and other creepy-crawlies on it.

H.P. Lovecraft, gone but not forgotten!

[Freedom]

598/600 Angell St.? I don't remember tour buses then, but maybe I just wasn't around at the right times.

No bus, WALKING tours -- self guided, and some have Guides who talk as you go.

http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/sites/rhode.asp

http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/sites/walktour.asp

Listing from 2009:
http://www.film-festival.org/HPLovecraft09.php


Thought you would enjoy this website NAME (quahog.org!) as well as a tidbit from the page:

http://quahog.org/attractions/index.php?id=3
A Sixty-Year Rest Disturbed

Although it is nearby, Lovecraft's body does not actually lie beneath his donated headstone, a fact that was evidently unknown to the person or persons who, on the night of October 13, 1997, apparently tried to dig him up.

[pomtzu]

I must have led more of a sheltered life than I thought. I lived in RI till I was 18, and never heard of H P Lovecraft before this thread - and I had aunts and uncles in Providence.

[Grace]

I must have led more of a sheltered life than I thought. I lived in RI till I was 18, and never heard of H P Lovecraft before this thread - and I had aunts and uncles in Providence.

I had never heard of him either, Ellie.

I have the Quahog.com site bookmarked, and here is another cute one -

You know you're from Rhode Island if . . . . .

[pomtzu]

I had never heard of him either, Ellie.

I have the Quahog.com site bookmarked, and here is another cute one -

You know you're from Rhode Island if . . . . .

Then I don't feel too bad. At least I'm not the only one.

And "You know you're from RI..." - is hilarious! I identified with the majority and was laughing thru the whole thing.

I was born at Lying-In Hosp.
Before we moved to the Apponaug area, we lived in Hoxsie - off of Airport Rd (don't ask me to spell the "O" Rd which is what I knew it as) - right up from Hoxsie 4-Corners where there was an Almacs and Mom used to shop there.
Scarborough - most definitely - Block Island??? - never to this day even.
Vinegar on fries - is there any other way???
And on and on - just so darn funny!

I've got to send that link to my brother in NC - he'll love it.

[phesina]

I had never heard of him either, Ellie.

I have the Quahog.com site bookmarked, and here is another cute one -

You know you're from Rhode Island if . . . . .

I got a few of those, but I wasn't there long enough to really "be" from Rhode Island.

[phesina]

A Sixty-Year Rest Disturbed

Although it is nearby, Lovecraft's body does not actually lie beneath his donated headstone, a fact that was evidently unknown to the person or persons who, on the night of October 13, 1997, apparently tried to dig him up.

I didn't know this. Where IS he actually buried, then?

[Freedom]

I didn't know this. Where IS he actually buried, then?

Dunno. It says "nearby."

Glad this thread is so fun for a group of us! LOL

[karlyb]

Listen to "Rhode Island if Famous for You" by Blossom Dearie:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig2daWp-Pls

Hmmm...that didn't light up so you may have to paste/copy. It's a cute little song!