Warwick Radio: The Voice of Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Friends of the Warwick Animal Shelter craft fair director Audrey Snow.

The Friends of the Warwick Animal Shelter support the shelter with events and fundraisers, including their Crafting for Critters Fall Bazaar on Saturday, October 14 at Airport Professional Park on Post Road. Hear how Audrey became a volunteer at the shelter, how the Friends began, how you can volunteer and adopt, and about the Friends craft bazaar.

Visit the Friends of the Warwick Animal Shelter website.

Write to Audrey at [email protected].

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Varnum Memorial Armory Military & Naval Museum⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

D.K. McKenzie—Warwick poet, pianist, and founder of The Poe Underground, a spoken word and music project—plays an original piano composition under his recording of Upon Julia’s Clothes by Robert Herrick and Friday Night by D.K. McKenzie.

Upon Julia’s Clothes

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,

Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows

That liquefaction of her clothes.

Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see

That brave vibration each way free,

O how that glittering taketh me!

Friday Night

Frightful Friday night

You consort with misfits

and shove all angels toward the blender

Again:

You merge with those dragons that wait to ensnare you

at every turn

with every insipid step

Friday night

and I can’t protect you

from the monsters you breed and merge with

at all hours of impossible night

Here you are again

Inviting a hail of fire

to rain on down

all over your body

all over your life

Watch D.K. create his keyboard solos for Upon Julia’s Clothes and Friday Night.

Check out ⁠⁠⁠The Poe Underground⁠⁠⁠.

What’s on the menu? Hearty, home-cooked meals and desserts, of course. Bring your appetite but not a lot of cash. Diners are the true American eating place.

Join Dr. Tom Shaker for an exploration of all-things diner. Hear how Walter Scott’s late night, walkup lunch cart in Providence in the 1870s inspired a nationwide craze, how to decode the diner lingo used by counter staff to place orders for food, and about some of the Ocean State’s most iconic diners.

Dr. Tom Shaker is a radio DJ, documentary filmmaker, expert on Rhode Island jazz, and MC of the Warwick History Quiz Show.

Tune in to The Soul Serenade ⁠radio show⁠.

Watch the Do It, Man! The Story of The Celebrity Club ⁠trailer⁠.

Learn about ⁠A Treasury of Rhode Island Jazz & Swing Musicians⁠.

Write to Tom at [email protected].

Learn how to find a career in a competitive job market in this monthly series by Warwick career management specialist Kathleen Dohoney.

Today, discover how to refresh your résumé, cover letter, references, LinkedIn profile, and other career documents.

Kathleen Dohoney, ACRW, CPRW, CDCS, CCTC, is a Career Coach at Randstad RiseSmart and a Career Specialist at Celtic Résumé Services.

Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠Celtic Resume Services⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Go to Kathleen’s ⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn page⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to Kathleen at [email protected].

Good friends Martha Bottella and Catrina Ritchie have an honest conversation about equal give-and-take and unconditional love.

How can you love someone completely and have a balanced relationship? Boundaries are key, and loving yourself is important to maintaining boundaries. Martha and Catrina reveal their struggles with love, balance, boundaries, and self-worth and the value of working to find self-respect and harmony.

Martha Bottella and Catrina Ritchie live in Warwick and can wave to each other from their back decks. They work in wellness and are colleagues at ⁠⁠⁠Wellness New England⁠⁠⁠.

Write to Martha and Catrina at [email protected].

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with personal chef Kate King.

Kate specializes in food prep and intimate parties—creating healthy alternatives to classic dishes in the homes of her clients. Hear how she works one-on-one with customers to tailor their meals, how good cooking is an investment in your health, about her appearances on the Rhode Show, and what she cooks for herself at home.

Visit the Krunchy Kate website.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Varnum Memorial Armory Military & Naval Museum⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Join Dave Englund, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and founder of Warwick Americana band In Lieu of Flowers, for a track-by-track look at the band’s self-titled, debut album.

Discover the story behind a song, and listen to the complete tune.

Today, hear about the song In the Hallway of My Heart.

Visit the In Lieu of Flowers ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In April 2021, singer-songwriter Dave Englund called his longtime friend, bassist and songwriter Steve Wolfe and asked if he'd be interested in creating an acoustic/electric Americana band, leaving the loud guitars in the rearview and opting for a more vocal-driven, vintage, thumping sound. Steve agreed.

After running a series of specific ads tailored to each musician's seat, the phone calls started coming in. Drummer, percussionist and vocalist Mark Vadnais showed up to play on Dave's back deck. Immediately the snaky soulful grooves started happening. Two weeks later, Chris Taylor answered the ad, jumped on deck, opened his Gretsch case, and delivered his unique guitar vibe, insuring his ticket in.

In November, an old acquaintance of Dave and Steve's, violinist and mandolin player Ernie Lau got the phone call asking him to come jam and see if he'd be a good fit for this new group. His focus on classical violin as opposed to bluegrass fiddle brought a new and needed color, and he joined in November.

Rounding out the band a month later in December was pedal steel guitarist Jim Wishart who answered the final ad, having been a guitarist for many years but only recently started playing the steel guitar, his musicality and playing coated every song he played on. Jim was in and In Lieu of Flowers was complete!

Down a long corridor and up a hidden staircase is a magical world.

Open the gates and follow the river until you reach a little, blue boat—dappled with sunlight, gliding along under big white clouds—where Miss Christine sits conversing with Warwick’s children.

Listen in and discover what they’re talking about today.

Christine Kayal has been a children’s librarian at Warwick Public Library for 24 years and a book lover her whole life. She spends her commute to and from work listening to audiobooks which she absolutely believes counts as reading.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with City Historian and Warwick Historical Society Vice President Henry A.L. Brown about traveling in Warwick 100 years ago.

Have you taken a ride on the trolley from Warwick to Providence? Henry Brown did. Hear what it was like to get around Warwick in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including walking, riding a horse, taking a horse-drawn trolley or an electric trolley, and riding a steam train.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Varnum Memorial Armory Military & Naval Museum⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

D.K. McKenzie—Warwick poet, pianist, and founder of The Poe Underground, a spoken word and music project—plays an original piano composition under his recording of Futility by Wilfred Owen and Ghost Hats by D.K. McKenzie.

Futility

Move him into the sun—

Gently its touch awoke him once,

At home, whispering of fields unsown.

Always it woke him, even in France,

Until this morning and this snow.

If anything might rouse him now

The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds—

Woke once the clays of a cold star.

Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides

Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?

Ghost Hats

I come here to absorb the lunacy

of the mischievous sea

Fallen sailors

tip their ghost hats to me

bobbing up and down in the summer’s tide

The dreaming sun sinks

saying its last good-bye

while gently introducing

the unstoppable night

The scattering of sun

highlights a fragment of moon

bringing a prospect of peace to all the inhabitants of metropolis

Watch D.K. create his keyboard solos for Futility and Ghost Hats⁠.

Check out ⁠⁠The Poe Underground⁠⁠.