Warwick Radio: The Voice of Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick has so many awesome places to eat and drink. Join Leslie Wasilewski to find out what makes them Wicked Good.

Today, Leslie talks with John Papa from The Greenwood Inn Restaurant & Bar and samples their hand-cut, breaded mozzarella sticks dipped in their homemade white sauce.

Visit the Greenwood Inn ⁠website⁠.

Write to Leslie at [email protected].

D.K. Mckenzie, Warwick poet, musician, and creator of The Poe Underground, explores the possibilities of combining the voice of the guitar with the haunting words and expressions of poetry.

In this episode, hear the poems Encounter by Polly Chase and Luscious Beach by D.K. Mckenzie accompanied by improvised classical guitar.

Encounter

You move alone the avenue like one

Alone, exultant, among mountain snows;

And through your hair the wind of morning blows;

And in your eyes is quenched the flaming sun.

I did not run the race that you have run;

I do not care what pride your triumph knows.

You would not understand the dreams of those

From whom the thirst for victory is gone.

The surging crowds efface you, as the tide

Obliterates a footprint on a shore.

So sands are sucked by time! You are no more

Than the blurred trace of emptiness defied.

When you have passed, cool spaces cover me

Like the unchallenged waters of the sea.

Luscious Beach

Luscious beach with the naked moon

breaking through the blue

Seagulls walk and run

remind me of myself (somehow)

Maybe it's (all) the wandering and exploring they do

Everyone's looking for something

Some often, some seldom, some all the time

That's me

I think I'll drive off into the sunset now

like a free bird?

Visit The Poe Underground⁠⁠⁠ website⁠⁠⁠.

Tune in to The Poe Underground ⁠⁠⁠podcast⁠⁠⁠.

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

Today, Kathleen interviews Lisa Picillo, Certified Financial Planner at Spinnaker Asset Management, about finances and starting a new career. Hear about assessing your finances before making a career change, making a plan to step backward in order to move forward, how having a financial plan can relieve stress, and how to find a financial planner.

Episode Links:

Visit the Spinnaker Asset Management ⁠website⁠.

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].

A “trip” on the subway makes for a bizarro story!

You never know who's going to turn up in the stories on Elly McGuire's podcast, Shaking The Bushes—Yoko Ono, Jonas Salk, Richard Hatch (Richard Hatch?), even a former President, to name a few—as she shares humorous and often unpredictable autobiographical anecdotes and social commentary about living parallel lives in her "cozy" apartment in Manhattan and her childhood home in Warwick, Rhode Island.

What you think might be so different from residing in the biggest city in the world and in the smallest state in the union can actually turn out to be very much the same.

Author and adventurist Elly McGuire has traveled the world, rubbed shoulders with celebrated people, and is now "shaking the bushes" of her colorful past.

Visit the Shaking the Bushes ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Join lawyer and true crime fanatic Kate Itacy for stories about crimes allegedly committed by Warwick citizens or within Warwick city limits.

Today, hear the tale of reputed bootlegger and bank robber Carl Rettich and his Crime Castle, a Warwick Neck mansion owned by Rettich and alleged to be the hub for the Rettich gang’s criminal activities during the 1920s and 1930s. Underworld legend credits Carl Rettich with the invention of cement shoes, and he may have poured a pair for his associate Danny Walsh in a secret dungeon under the Crime Castle’s basement before throwing Walsh into Narragansett Bay.

Katherine Itacy was born and raised in Warwick, worked as a criminal defense lawyer in the city, and remains a civil rights and criminal justice advocate.

Write to Kate at [email protected].

Visit Kate’s ⁠⁠website⁠⁠.

Music: ⁠⁠https://www.purple-planet.com⁠

Sound effects by the ⁠⁠BBC⁠⁠.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

From Patti Page in 1952 to Weezer in 1994, concerts at the Palladium and Midway stage were an essential part of Rocky Point. Hear about shows by small acts that would become big, the night in 1978 when REO Speedwagon, AC/DC, Blue Öyster Cult, and Thin Lizzy all played, the group that caused the power to go out three times, and the 1984 concert that caused a traffic jam from Warwick to Cranston.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

The Rocky Point saltwater pool was an Olympic-sized pool at the front of the park that was filled with water from Narragansett Bay. Hear how George watched divers make painful belly flops while he cooled off in the pool, about Olympic trials and AAU competitions at the pool, how it became a freshwater pool, and why it closed in 1985.

Read about the ⁠1936 Olympic tryouts⁠ at the pool.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

Scott and George continue their conversation about Rocky Point Park. Hear about the Flume, funhouse, Laff in the Dark, and Castle of Terror/House of Horrors. Find out about the Rocky Point jail, and discover where some of Rocky Point’s rides went when the park closed.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

George LaCross made his first visit to Rocky Point Park in 1962 and became an immediate fan. Hear Scott and George reminisce about the Paladium ballroom, Shore Dinner Hall, baseball field, petting zoo, and Rocky Point’s first carousel and Ferris Wheel.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

As Warwick Radio Online draws to a close, the podcast gang takes a wild journey through time into a future none of us could ever imagine.

Listen to Shaking the Bushes with Elly McGuire.

Tune into to The Poe Underground with D.K. Mckenzie.

Watch The Rhode Island Wave Spotlight Series with Scott Nerney.

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