Rhode Island is on TV!!!

[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]

Yup, this was my first home there - http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/...sp?id=598angel.

I lived in the third-floor apartment, with the entrance around the back (so my street number was 600 Angell). When I was looking for a place, the rental agent said "H.P. Lovecraft used to live here, if that means anything to you."

I said, "Wow, it sure does!" I had somehow discovered H.P. Lovecraft in my late teens/early 20s or somewhere around there, i.e., the impressionable ages, and I had never forgotten him. I took the place because it had what I wanted at a price I could afford, but I have to say H.P. was an additional draw.

(Yes, so maybe Michigan people don't know from quahogs [which I first heard of after I'd moved to New England, i.e., metro Boston], but those in the right frame of mind could find out about H.P.! )

[Freedom]

You know what "John from Alpert's" sounds like.

OH MY GOSH!! I DO, I remember him!!! Alpert's is gone now . . . . Sold to Raymour and Flanigan.

[Grace]

Sandie - thanks for starting this thread. It is so much fun
Brings back so many memories

[mrspunkysmom]

I have cousins that live in Middletown. I did not know until today that it was on an island. I've obviously never been to see them. We talk a few times per year.

[pomtzu]

Okay Gretchen - I can spell the old Airport Rd name now:

Occupasstuxet Rd

No wonder it was changed. I cheated tho. I found it in an old book I "borrowed" from school - "Episodes in Warwick History" - published in 1937 by The Warwick Historical Committee. I found it among a bunch of really old things I was going thru, just a couple of weeks ago.

An interesting quote on the intro page: "The young live forward in hope and the old live backward in memory". Guess we're the old ones..........

[phesina]

Sandie - thanks for starting this thread. It is so much fun
Brings back so many memories

Yes, indeed! I wasn't that long in R.I., but I came to love it very much.

[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?

[Grace]

I do remember that!! And the airport was originally on that road. I remember going over and parking in the parking lot (it was free back then) and watching the planes take off and land.

[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