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Scott MacKay Commentary
5:34 pm
Fri December 6, 2013

Scott MacKay Commentary: Providence Journal, We Knew Ye Well

The Providence Journal building in downtown Providence
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For nearly two centuries, the Providence Journal has been Rhode Island’s most important news organization. Now that it is up for sale, RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay brings us the ProJo’s  storied  past and uncertain future.

When the first edition of the Providence Journal  was printed in 1829, it was a four-page broadsheet hand pressed into paper fashioned from recycled linen rags.

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One Square Mile: Bristol
8:53 pm
Wed October 9, 2013

One Square Mile: Bristol's Boat Building Industry

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Steve Thurston's company Quantum Sails made it through the economoic downturn, others weren't so lucky.
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Quantum Sails Steve Thurston moves a sail toward one of his sewing stations.
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At Quantum Sails workers sit in the floor to work on the sails.
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Steve Thurston at Quantum Sails designed his factory floor so employees sit inside an ice box to sew together sail pieces.
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Design for a sail made of dozens of pieces.
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Ben Hall of Hall Spars and Rigging
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Hall Spars and Rigging helped make this chair of carbon fiber. It sits in the company's lobby in Bristol.
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Eric Goetz's company took a tumble in 2008 during the economic downturn
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Boats docked at Bristol Marina, where the industry is picking back up.
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The Rhode Island Marine Trade Association says the boat building industry is seeing signs of recovery after the economic downtown.
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The Rhode Island Marine Trade Association says the biggest growth is in the composite technology such as carbon fibers.
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All this week we've been bringing you stories from Bristol in our series One Square Mile. We check in on the town's boat building industry. The sector got whacked, as one boat builder describes it, when the bottom fell out of the economy in 2008. Rhode Island Public Radio's Catherine Welch checks in to see how it’s doing now.

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