-
Click for more on book
Recent Comments
Tag Archives: Lost Providence
TB: Beauty as a social good
Here is my Traditional Building blog post from last month, which ran with the following headline: “Beautiful Architecture is a Social Good. Why not bottle it?” It makes much of the fact that in Manhattan residents and visitors can stroll … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Atlantic Magazine, Beauty, Happiness, Lake Placid, Lost Providence, New York Yacht Club, Traditional Building
6 Comments
New “Lost Prov” book page
Today marks the official launch of ” ‘Lost Providence’: the book” – a new page on my blog with all the news about the book. It reveals how to buy the book and where its author will speak about the … Continue reading
“Lost Providence” update
A month from today Lost Providence goes on sale. That’s Monday, August 28. In fact, it already can be pre-ordered. And, to revise and extend my book’s remarks (as they say in Congress), my publisher, History Press, and I are … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged Book Tour, Bookstores, Calendar, History Press, Lost Providence, Providence RI
Leave a comment
“Lost Providence” update
Yesterday, the author’s allotment of five (5) free copies of his book arrived at his happy household in Providence. Today, I started reading it to my wife, and when it goes on sale this August 28 I will start hectoring … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Books and Culture
Tagged Book Events, Events Calendar, History Press, Lost Providence, Providence RI
8 Comments
‘Transforming Providence’
Yesterday’s announcement of the publication date of Lost Providence brings to mind that Transforming Providence, by Gene Bunnell, a professor of city planning at SUNY/Albany, has just been published. I am pleased that he has weighed in on the redevelopment … Continue reading
Pub date for “Lost Prov”!
Feel free to hoist some suds, but this post is not the announcement for a pub crawl. No. Rather, it celebrates the announcement of the publication date for my upcoming book Lost Providence: Monday, Aug. 28. The news arrived this … Continue reading
“Lost Prov” on the march
To update readers on my upcoming book Lost Providence, I finished writing it at the beginning of November, a month after I delivered its 99 illustrations to the publisher, which is The History Press, headquartered in Charleston, S.C. My editor … Continue reading
Venice author today, Brown
Salvatore Settis, the author of If Venice Dies, will speak at 7 p.m. today at Brown University’s Rhode Island Hall. That’s the stucco Greek Revival building facing the main campus green from just south of University Hall. I am about … Continue reading
Raymond Hood’s Providence
Above is a photo of a photo of a microfilm copy from a front-page story in the March 19, 1916, edition of the Providence Sunday Journal. It shows a proposed new municipal building designed by architect Raymond Hood, who was … Continue reading
Coming up: ‘If Venice Dies’
My colleague from my days as a dictationist (1978-81) at the Washington bureau of the Associated Press, Michael Wise, who was a D.C. metro reporter there, is now a publisher, the co-founder, with Ross Ufberg, of New Vessel Press. Wise … Continue reading
