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TABLE OFCONTENTS

4 MISQUAMICUT DIRECTIONS

5 2020 EVENTS @ MISQUAMICUT

10 MISQUAMICUT’S DRIVE-IN THEATER

13 SAM’S SNACK BAR

14 PUBLIC BEACHES

14 IN MEMORIAM

15 TIDE CHART 2020

17 A LIVING LEGEND

18 MBA CELEBRATES 20 YEARS

23 FAMILY TIES

27 PETER SILVA WEEKAPAUG BAIT & TACKLE

29 GUY FAWKES DAY

30 FALL FEST 2020

34 MEMBER DIRECTORY

38 RELIGIOUS SERVICES Images provided by the Misquamicut Business Association Photo by E. Santos

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SUMMER 2020SUMMER 2020EVENTS @ MISQUAMICUTEVENTS @ MISQUAMICUT

2020 EVENTS FOR MISQUAMICUT BEACHTOM MCCOY FAMILY FUN RUN SERIES44th Season! Every Wednesday July through August 19th 6PMPleasant View 65 Atlantic Avenue www.westerlytrackclub.org HERMIT CRAB RACESEvery Wednesday Night in July & Au-gust. FREE!! Registration starts at 7PM - Races at 8PMThe Purple Ape 17 Winnapaug Road 401-596-6169www.purpleape.comMISQUAMICUT DRIVE IN MOVIESEvery Friday $20per car. Concession stand. Wuskenau Town Beach Pondside Lot 316 Atlantic Avenue Each Wednesday at the Drive-In night will feature entertainment provided by THE UNITED THE-ATER. Check unitedtheatre.org for schedule and ticket info.Please check Misquamicut.org for our expanded selections. During Covid, the Drive-in is one event we are allowed to have. We will most likely be offering programming 7 nights a week in July and August. Movies subject to change so check the website.

JUNEJune 19: Jumanji: The Next LevelJune 25: Live Music Open Mic NightJune 26: YesterdayJune 28: JawsJULYJuly 2-3-4: The GooniesJuly 5: Live Comedy NightJuly 6: Tunes on the Dunes Presents John Ford ColeyJuly 9-10-11: JawsJuly 12: Neverending StoryJuly 16-17-18: Back to the Future MEET Actor JJ Cohen from all 3 Back To The Future Movies. Also featuring photo op with a DeLorean. Prices vary for photo op packages.July 19: Live ComedyJuly 23-24: ET The Extra-TerrestrialJuly 25: Live Concert BILLY GILMANJuly 26: Live Concert featuring The Beatles Abbey Road AlbumJuly 27: Blues on the Beach presents AL COPLEYJuly 30: Dirty DancingJuly 31: Fletch MEET ACTOR BURTON GILLIAM

AUGUSTAugust 1: Honeymoon in Vegas MEET ACTOR BURTON GILLIAMAugust: Live ComedyAugust 6-7-8: Star Wars: Rise of SkywalkerAugust 9: Live ComedyAugust 13-14-15: Frozen IIAugust 16: Live Music featuring The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers AlbumAugust 20-21-22: St. Elmo’s FireAugust 23: Live ComedyAugust 28-28-29: The Lost BoysSEPTEMBERSeptember 3-4: GreaseSeptember 5: Live Music The Beatles Rubber Soul AlbumSeptember 6: Live Music The Ed-wards TwinsSeptember 11-12: Stand By MeSURFTOWN HALF MARATHON CHECK WEBSITE DUE TO COVIDSunday September 13 7:30AMHartford Marathon FoundationRunning along the ocean front streets of Misquamicut Beach and Watch Hill, RI - the Surftown Half Marathon is a spectacular beach run featuring stun-ning ocean views! Fast and flat, the 13.1 mile course is a great destination race. Also try out the 5K! A fast 5K run through the Misquamicut beach community.www.hartfordmarathon.com

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10TH ANNUAL MISQUAMICUT FALLFEST WEEKEND CHECK WEBSITE DUE TO COVIDEXPANDED TO 4 DAYSThursday September 17th 5PM-11PMFriday September 18th 5PM - 11PMSaturday September 19th 11AM - 11PMSunday September 20th 11AM - 5PMWorld Class Carnival and Amusements,Food Truck Rodeo, Knockerball, Classic Car Show, Beer Tent, games and more. International Music Headliners. Misquamicut State Beachwww.misquamicutfestivals.org23ND ANNUAL GUY FAWKES BONFIRE NIGHT CHECK WEBSITE DUE TO COVIDSaturday October 17th 7PMComplete with comedic (Monty Python) re-enactment of the 1605 trial for treason of Guy Fawkes by the “Misquamicut Players”. Music, Bonfire, Dancers, Actors, Fife and Drum and more.The Windjammer 321 Atlantic Avenues www.guyfawkesusa.comTOWN BEACH PROGRAMSIncluding surf lessons, yoga, Zumba, summer schedule for events for Rotary Park as well as “Night Tennis” available by contacting the Recreation Department. Town of Westerly. www.westerlyrec.comMISQUAMICUT TOURIST CENTERLocated at 316 Atlantic Avenue.Open daily Memorial Day through Labor Day 9PM - 6PM and weekends in September.

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A Blast from the PastA Blast from the Past Misquamicut’s Drive-In TheaterMisquamicut’s Drive-In Theater

By Gregory PettysJohn Gonzalez, known to his friends as

Gonzo, was feeling nostalgic one night about the Westerly Drive-In that closed in 1987. He was with Misquamicut Busi-ness Association Executive Director Cas-well Cooke and said: “We should have a film festival right here at the beach.” He was thinking back to when he was a teenager and would sneak friends into the movie in the trunk of his car.

“They charged by the person and the cars were big. I could fit three people in my trunk,” he recalled.

Caswell also remembered the West-erly Drive-In: “My family’s property backed up to the drive-in. I would stand out there waiting for the school bus in front of the huge dilapidated screen, and thought, it’s too bad the past is already gone before I can experience it.”

Those memories sparked the idea and the Misquamicut Drive-In was born.

Drive-in theatres are an American phenomenon and after WWII they sprang up all over the rural landscape of the country bringing Hollywood to the people. The first drive-in was patented on June 6, 1933 by Richard Hollingshead in New Jersey. He created it as a solution for people unable to comfortably fit into smaller movie theatre seats. Hoping this would appeal to families with children, Hollingshead advertised his drive-in as a place where “the whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.” Drive-in theatres reached

their peak in 1951 with 4,151 nation-wide.

The success of the drive-in was rooted in its reputation of being a family-friend-ly place. Parents were able to bring their children to the theater, often in pajamas, without having to worry about bothering other movie-goers, and were also able to spend time together without paying the expenses of babysitters. Drive-ins catered to their known audience, offer-ing luxuries such as bottle warmers and diaper vending machines, and later min-iature golf courses, swimming pools, and even motels on the land with windows facing the screens so that viewers could watch the films from their beds. During the 1950s, the greater privacy afforded to patrons gave drive-ins a reputation as immoral, and they were labeled “passion pits” in the media.

One of the largest drive-in theaters was the Johnny All-Weather Drive-In in Copiague, New York. Covering over 29 acres, it could park 2,500 vehicles. It had a full-service restaurant with seating on the roof, and a trolley system to take children and adults to a playground and a large indoor theater for bad weath-er or for those who wanted to watch in air-conditioned comfort. It opened in 1957 with Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison and closed in 1984. The largest screen size was 54 feet high by 120 feet wide. That’s a big screen.

But by the late 1960’s drive-in theatres started to decline in popularity. People

were watching a new medium called television which you could watch from the comfort of your home. Drive-ins were seasonal and weather dependent, nobody was going to an outdoor theatre in the rain or snow. As operating costs and property taxes rose the drive-in’s profitability declined. Where there was once over 4,000 theaters nationwide now there are less than 320. Rhode Island hosted one of the first 10 drive-ins to be opened in America, the Providence Drive-In that opened in July 1937. During the peak of the drive-in’s popularity Rhode Island had 15 drive-ins. Today just two remain, the Traditional Rustic Tri-View Drive-In in North Smithfield and the Misquamicut Drive-In.

So Caswell and Gonzo made the decision to try and build a drive-in, the question was how to go about it. The Misquamicut Drive-In was a shoestring operation from the start. George Tat-tersall, president of the Misquamicut Business Association at the time, came up with the ingenious idea for build-ing the supports for the screen out of 40 foot cargo containers which were also needed for storing the Fall Festival equipment. He proposed stacking them up and welding them together to sup-port the screen.

“The problem was we had to make it removable,” said George. “We didn’t know if it was going to work and if it didn’t we could always sell the contain-ers. It also had to be temporary other-

wise you have to get all kinds of permits from the DEM.”

George built the screen out of ply-wood, attached it to the containers, and painted it white. They were able to get a projector and for the first couple of years projected the movies out of the back of Caswell’s jeep.

In 2010, the drive-in opened on Thurs-day nights. Before long, word got out and they had a hit.

“It took right off,” said Gonzo. “We showed classic cult movies. At first we had an AM radio transmitter to broad-cast the sound but a lot of the newer cars didn’t have AM anymore so we had to get the speakers.”

The first year the drive-in was open only one night a week for eight weeks but now, ten years later, it’s open three nights a week

“Last year, the South County Tourism Council donated a proper projection shed and the audio comes from a low power FM transmitter that you can tune your car radio to. The drive-in gates open at 6 p.m. and the lot holds 100 cars with an overflow lot for 100 more. There are bathrooms and a concession stand that sells hot dogs, candy, popcorn, and Coca Cola products because Coke is one of our main sponsors. We do the little

glass bottle Cokes and it’s fun to see kids who don’t know about glass bottles try to figure out how to pop the top off,” said Caswell. “The first hour of the show is a reel that Chris Walsh and I put together that combines famous classic commercials, like the one with Iron Eyes Cody shedding a tear about all the pollution, commercials for local busi-nesses, and fun film clips from the fifties and sixties. Everything is nostalgia and a little bit of a history lesson. We’re trying to enable the kids to experience another era of American culture.”

Another challenge to opening the drive-in was figuring out what movies to show. Most of the few remaining drive-ins in the country show first run mov-ies which were too expensive for the Misquamicut Drive-In and they couldn’t compete with the twelve screen indoor cinemas close by. So they decided to just showcase classic films from the drive-in era.

Over the years they’ve found that “Jaws” was hands down the most popu-lar film, the one that everyone loved.

“We could show ‘Jaws’ every week and sell out,” said Caswell with a laugh, “because it’s a different crowd every week. We have a guy who has a place called The Living Sharks Museum and he

brings a ‘Jaws’ photo booth. We have an actual DeLorean that’s made to look like the car in the movie when we do ‘Back to the Future.’ We have a whole group that bring their Jurassic Park Vehicles. We’ll have 15 of them when we show ‘Jurassic Park.’ The Ocean State Ghost Busters group comes when we show ‘Ghost Busters.’ It’s a lot of fun.”

The Misquamicut Drive-In opens at 6:30 p.m. 3 nights a week, previews start at 8 p.m., and the feature is at 9 p.m. due to high demand during COVID-19 the theater will be open 7 nights a week with various programming.

“A lot of people park then walk across the street to the beach or go eat dinner at one of the restaurants” said Charles Trefes, President of the MBA. “People make a night out of it. It’s nice. You’ll see the back of an RV open and there’s a whole family. They’ve got pillows and blankets and the parents and the kids are snuggling. It’s family time. We need more of that. It’s’ also a bargain at $20 a car and it doesn’t matter how many people you cram in.”

So travel back in time to the Misqua-micut Drive-In. It’s a rare, retro throw-back to the golden age of cinema and a real old fashioned American blast from the past.

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By Shane Belanger“You have to adapt to the area you’re

in...fish-n-chips have to be on the menu, fried clams have to be on the menu” - Kurt Soukup

The iconic Sam’s Snack Bar in Misquamicut, RI is starting the next chapter in her story. After satisfying many appetites over the years, Norm Dufresne – the second owner in the lineage – felt it was time for a change. (Norm had purchased the snack bar from Sam Castanza; whose name is on the sign.) At the same time, Kurt Soukup, who happened to be 1,646 miles away, was looking to bring his culinary knowledge back to the area he grew up in.

Kurt Soukup, entered the fun and exciting culinary world at the tender age of 14. The way he told the story goes like this, “We were driving by a restaurant called The Lakeside Inn in Wilburham, MA and I wanted to work there. I wore a

three-piece suit to the interview (he was 14 mind you), and got the job.”

Kurt worked his way up from the dishwasher to manage the show, and then it was time to move on to anoth-er adventure. It was this decision that brought him together with Rupprecht Scherff, who was the owner at The Student Prince and Fort in Springfield, MA. Rupprecht became a mentor to Kurt and taught him many lessons that Kurt still carries with him to this day. The main take-away that Kurt learned was loyalty – loyalty to his staff and custom-ers – which translates into his sense of hospitality.

Kurt soon met Kelly who became his wife and business partner, and they have owned several successful restaurants in Massachusetts and Con-necticut. After discussing their culinary career, one place they always wanted to open a restaurant was in the Carib-bean. Soon they were searching and

found a place called Bananas located in Vieques, Puerto Rico, and purchased the local spot about 8 years ago. They have been running it ever since.

Looking forward, Kurt and Kelly knew that they would like to retire back in New England and started looking to build the foundation for the next chapter in their lives. After some searching, they were able to purchase a home in Westerly and a business at the beach.

Kurt is a farm-to-table chef and he plans to bring this concept to Sam’s Snack Bar in Misquamicut. They do not plan to change the menu, as people have come to expect certain things when they go to the beach. They will keep the same hours – 8am – 5pm 7 days a week; serving breakfast and lunch. The plan is to build a basic menu - sandwiches, wraps, etc (scratch made) and run numerous specials; this way they can test the market and let the market dictate the menu.

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Atlantic Beach Park321 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0504 www.atlanticbeachpark.comFamily friendly beachfront amusement park featuring the largest indoor carousel and arcade in Misquamicut . Restrooms, showers and changing rooms on site. Property also features a snack bar, Dusty’s Dairy Bar and the Windjammer Surf Bar. Ample affordable parking available. Life-guards on duty in season. Pet friendly. Open Memorial Day to Columbus day.

Dunes Park Beach665 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0935A great stretch of beach located right at the Weekapaug Breachway and is geared toward families. Restrooms, bath houses, showers, and a concession stand avail-able only to customers of Dunes Park. Friendly parking lot staff as well as lifeguards on duty each day.Closed for the 2020 season, see you May 2021.

Misquamicut State Beach257 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-596-9097Rhode Island’s largest state beach with over a half mile of beach front. The large pavilion features restrooms, outside showers, concessions and a playground. Life-guards on duty in season. Accessible to the disabled. No pets allowed. Smoke free. Electric vehicle charging station. Parking is available for 2,700 cars for a daily fee. Open Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Paddy’s Beach 159 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-596-2610www.paddysbeach.comAmple beachside and pond side parking for full service restaurant, bar and beach club with oceanside lounge open to the public. Restrooms and outside showers available for club guests. Lifeguards on duty in season. No pet or coolers. Open Memorial Day to Labor Day.

The Andrea’s Beach89 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-348-8788www.andreabeachbar.comDaily parking for beach and restaurant. Restrooms available. Lifeguard on duty in season. Open Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Wuskenau Beach311 & 316 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-348-2597www.westerlyrec.comA town-owned and operated beach facility. This facility is open to the public and features daily parking, restrooms, showers and tourist information center. Life-guards on duty daily. Season parking passes are available. Credit and debit cards only – No Cash Accepted. Open Memorial Day to Labor Day.

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By Gina KingDusty’s Dairy Bar is a vacation destination

at Misquamicut Beach and the man behind the name and the business is a living legend. He was born with the name Willis Edgecomb so it’s kind of a funny story on how he came to be called Dusty. It all started with a girl he met at a roller dome back in his dating days. Her former boyfriend was called Dusty, and so she passed that name along to Willis. And even though he didn’t get the girl, he got the name, which stuck and he used that name for his business Dusty’s Dairy Bar that he owned for more than 40 years. Now at 97 years old, Dusty’s blue eyes sparkle when he talks about the dairy bar. It’s clear that he loves the life he has built for himself in the Westerly community. He just retired about six years ago from his dairy days and reflects upon his business he was so dedicated to and the life he created.

Dusty is a disappearing but treasured part of military history as a WWII veteran, he went into the service right after high school, as part of the Army Corps bomb disposal squad serving three years, most of it in combat duty. Private Willis Edgecomb of Limestone ME was awarded a meritorious citation plaque in serving with the 614th ordnance ammuni-tion company for superior performance of achievement and duration in 1944.

“I guess I must have done something right, I’m damn lucky to be here,” said Dusty. “I just went on with life when I came home. I don’t talk about the war.”

After the war was over and he came back home as he put it “with five cents in my pock-et” he went to work for C.B. Cottrell and Sons Co. on Mechanic Street in Pawcatuck.

“I did everything there,” said Dusty. “I worked for 55 cents an hour cleaning floors

and I drove a truck, I went on the assembly floor and set up presses, and spent 17 years in production control.”

His strong work ethic and self-motivation led him to own something of his own even while still working at Cottrell.

“I could have gone to college but I made up my mind that I didn’t have an education and I had to do something,” said Dusty. He got his start in the ice cream business by leasing what was called Dairyland back in the day, located across from Providence Coal Fired Pizza on Franklin Street, and even though the small ice cream shop is no longer there, it gave Dusty his start and inspiration for his dairy bar soon to follow.

His strong entrepreneurial drive led him to open up Dusty’s Dairy Bar in 1946 at the original location of Dunn’s Corner and later he moved the business to Atlantic Avenue on Misquamicut Beach. He remembers on opening day that town officials showed up and stated his business was the start of a new project. And from then on it was business as usual for Dusty and his family. Just a couple of years in with Dusty’s he built the Blue Star Motel on Post Road. He put his wife in charge of running the motel while they moved into the house next door.

“I would leave Cottrells at 3:30 pm, go home for an hour, have dinner and then go to the dairy bar,” said Dusty. “I did that my whole life; I enjoyed every bit of it.”

Besides being dedicated to his businesses, his other passion was flying. He has a picture of himself standing next to the first plane he bought, a 1975 Bonanza F33A. He learned to fly it out of a small community WWII airport hangar in what is now Saltwater Vineyard in Stonington. He used to leave his dairy bar on a Friday night and fly his plane down to Pom-

pano Beach, Florida in the winter time, where his wife was, spend the weekend and be back at work on Monday.

“I just kept working,” he said. “I worked hard and I lived a pretty good life, I guess.”

Dusty grew up during a time when his sol-emn word and a handshake sealed a business deal and a mutual trust between community members formed a bond. His business philos-ophy was smart and simple; “keep it clean, be honest, and keep your word.”

He had people all over the world working for him, many young students from Europe who came for the summer and ended up working for him each season at the dairy bar.

“I liked meeting people from Europe,” he said. “When I closed, I went and visited them all, I knew all the people.”

One of his young workers recently visited him; she is 76 years old now but still remem-bers how nice he and his wife were to her while she worked at Dusty’s.

“It’s been a great business for me,” said Dusty.

Phil Orzell, who Dusty calls his wingman and friend, used to bring his grandchildren to Misquamicut Beach to go on the water slide and then to Dusty’s for ice cream every Sunday. Back then the boys barely came up to Dusty’s knees and now they are all over six feet tall and still have fond memories of their Dusty Dairy Bar days.

These days you can find Dusty relaxing with a glass of wine and his friend Phil down at The Andrea. He still enjoys going back to his dairy bar and meeting people there but he still won’t reveal to anyone the recipe for his famous ice cream. His favorite flavor of all his six soft serves? Pistachio and he likes a strawberry milkshake too.

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By Gina KingIf you have lived in or been a visitor of

the Misquamicut Beach area in the past few years you are part of history in the making. Maybe you enjoyed the Thursday night drive-in flicks with a date, or spent the day at Misquamicut beach with your friends and let the sunburn cool off with a walk up and down Atlantic avenue stopping for a drink and some clam strips at one of the local restaurants or you looked forward all year to the opening day of Dusty’s Dairy Bar each season.

Misquamicut Beach is one of Rhode Island’s premier vacation hotspots and over the past 20 years, it has evolved into a generation of creating memories for tourists, residents, and businesses. The Misquamicut Business Association (MBA) is an important part of the evolution of change and growth for this special area and this year celebrates 20 years strong. This year, the association looks back and reflects on its success the last 20 years and how they will make strides into the next 20 years.

Caswell Cooke, Executive Director and former President of the MBA had no idea he would still be kicking around the beach after helping build the MBA 20 years ago. He re-members a version of the MBA in the 1980’s before his time with just a few businesses at the beach as members, 1993 being the last time it existed. As a young 25-year-old back then, and a new business owner at Mis-quamicut Beach, he saw many of the bars closing. His business mentor, Lenny Colucci of The Andrea, brought the idea to fruition that with all the visitors coming to Misqua-micut they needed to have more choices for people to enjoy visiting and eating and that they should bring their businesses together to attract more tourists. This idea led to a letter that was sent out to other business

owners who were invited to a meeting. To Caswell’s pleasant surprise, the business owners showed up at The Andrea and elected him president of the board in 2000 to bring the MBA back to life.

“I am definitely proud of what we created and our high percentage of members,” said Caswell. “It’s been 20 years of generating memories and growing up.”

In the first year of the revitalized MBA, the group wanted to get their footing and start with a project that would be effec-tive in changing the image of the beach to show their value to the community. So they cleaned up the beach! Caswell fondly remembers the first guy they hired to pick up beach trash who used his own truck and went to Home Depot to pick up supplies.

The now popular Misquamicut Drive-In started one night a week with a lone projector out of the back of Caswell’s jeep. The MBA magazine was also a big accom-plishment and started with then Westerly Sun Photographer Danny Highland showing them a spread of pictures and commenting that they should do a publication of some sort.

“We have no fancy office and have never been about a large staff,” said Caswell. “We are out there doing our thing and getting it done with no frills.”

Tim Brennan, the current vice president of the MBA board and owner of Two Little Fish, was a newcomer to the business group but remembers the community rallying together when Superstorm Sandy hit the close knit Misquamicut Beach community in 2012. He recalls how they all worked as a team to clean up the beach after the disaster. The MBA coordinated with local volunteer groups, other organizations, and the Ocean Chamber of Commerce to set up check-points and even issued volunteers gear and

tools. All members went to work helping homeowners throw out damaged furniture, rebuild decks and docks, and remove sand. He remembers there being at least eight feet of sand around every business, and the National Guard came along with the local police to help rebuild the beach.

“We coordinated with other restaurants to feed volunteers, my place had four walls still remaining, so people picked up donated food and ate at my restaurant,” said Tim. “It was a great response by the community to rally around the beach, and to this day I see those customers that visit my restaurant and remember how they helped me out.”

A big part of their mission all these years has been cleaning the beach and they have come a long way from that one lone guy picking up trash to employing a dedicated team of people to keep the area clean all year round.

“When people come to visit we don’t want the neighbors to have a trashy area,” said Caswell. “We don’t let trash hit the ground here.”

They have worked with the state over the last few years and built a great relationship with Lieutenant Governor Dan McKee who has been very supportive of their efforts and accomplishments as it relates to keeping Misquamicut clean and building tourism in the area.

Another key to the success of the MBA and their longevity is their self-promotion. With more than 105,000 Facebook follow-ers, they have utilized their talents and rode the social media wave.

Former President of the MBA George Tattersall also had a positive impact on the self sustaining group, helping them think outside the Misquamicut Beach box to host SpringFest and FallFest, which now take place annually.

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“The whole idea of the MBA is to drive business to Misquamicut and to support our members,” said George.

Growing up in Westerly, George opened a music center business in Mystic when he was in his late 20s and later started a business in Misquamicut leasing batting cages and go karts .

“We would just open for the summer and never really did much marketing, it was all weather dependent and small businesses couldn’t afford a marketing campaign,” said George.

He got involved in the MBA and took some of the business ideas he had learned from his days in Mystic.

“We decided what we were going to do was not going to cost MBA members any-thing, and we ended up doing the festivals twice a year to get us rolling and create an income so the MBA could sustain itself,” he said.

Rebecca Green, who owns Cold Stone Creamery in Westerly has been an associate board member of the MBA since 2009 and also agrees with George on the importance of business networking and promoting the whole town through the different events and fundraisers.

“I love to see the memories and family traditions people share with us about Mis-quamicut and why they vacation here,” said Rebecca.

And who doesn’t love a souvenir map of the beach? George got that idea going from the Beachcomber rental cottages that would give them to rental visitors so they could find their way from the rental office to their cottage. He brought the idea back to the MBA and they worked with a graphic design company to create a colorful cartoon map so visitors that vacation here can navigate the entire beach area and the map even points them in the right direction to go to Block Island and some of the other area hotspots. The map was later blown up and added to the pavilion at the state beach.

From its grassroots beginnings, the MBA has grown from a budget of $4,000 to $5,000 with just a few members to present day having an operating budget of $400,000 and

being 175 members strong. What is the vision for the MBA for the next

20 years?“We want to advocate for better infra-

structure here along the beach,” said Caswell. They are working with the state and the

town of Westerly to not only fix the roads and drainage problems but also put in a bike/pedestrian nature path along Atlantic Avenue. The path would feature lighting for those biking and walking back from the beach at night, as well as informative signage on marine life and birds. This signage will also emphasize the beauty of the salt pond, which gets overlooked and is another added natural feature of Misquamicut. They also are work-ing with the state on adding a season pass lane for cars coming into the beach parking lot and online season ticket passes.

“We are advocates for the good of the whole beach,” said Caswell. “With our leadsership of President Charles Trefes of The Windjammer and Vice President Tim Brennan, we are poised to do even more in years to come!”

“The whole idea of the MBA is to drive business to Misquamicut and to support our members,” said George.

Growing up in Westerly, George opened a music center business in Mystic when he was in his late 20s and later started a business in Misquamicut leasing batting cages and go karts .

“We would just open for the summer and never really did much marketing, it was all weather dependent and small businesses couldn’t afford a marketing campaign,” said George.

He got involved in the MBA and took some of the business ideas he had learned from his days in Mystic.

“We decided what we were going to do was not going to cost MBA members any-thing, and we ended up doing the festivals twice a year to get us rolling and create an income so the MBA could sustain itself,” he said.

Rebecca Green, who owns Cold Stone Creamery in Westerly has been an associate board member of the MBA since 2009 and also agrees with George on the importance

of business networking and promoting the whole town through the different events and fundraisers.

“I love to see the memories and family traditions people share with us about Mis-quamicut and why they vacation here,” said Rebecca.

And who doesn’t love a souvenir map of the beach? George got that idea going from the Beachcomber rental cottages that would give them to rental visitors so they could find their way from the rental office to their cottage. He brought the idea back to the MBA and they worked with a graphic design company to create a colorful cartoon map so visitors that vacation here can navigate the entire beach area and the map even points them in the right direction to go to Block Island and some of the other area hotspots. The map was later blown up and added to the pavilion at the state beach.

From its grassroots beginnings, the MBA has grown from a budget of $4,000 to $5,000 with just a few members to present day having an operating budget of $400,000 and being 175 members strong.

What is the vision for the MBA for the next 20 years?

“We want to advocate for better infra-structure here along the beach,” said Caswell.

They are working with the state and the town of Westerly to not only fix the roads and drainage problems but also put in a bike/pedestrian nature path along Atlantic Avenue. The path would feature lighting for those biking and walking back from the beach at night, as well as informative signage on marine life and birds. This signage will also emphasize the beauty of the salt pond, which gets overlooked and is another added natural feature of Misquamicut. They also are work-ing with the state on adding a season pass lane for cars coming into the beach parking lot and online season ticket passes.

“We are advocates for the good of the whole beach,” said Caswell. “With our leadsership of President Charles Trefes of The Windjammer and Vice President Tim Brennan, we are poised to do even more in years to come!”

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By Gregory PettysMisquamicut Beach is considered one of

the finest beaches in New England, attracting thousands of people every summer for a healthy dose of sun and fun. Much of Mis-quamicut’s charm comes from a small group of family owned businesses that have been passed down from generation to generation. Many of these families migrated here and all brought with them a sense of pride in hard work and a community spirit. These hard working people helped Misquamicut become the wonderful community we know today.

The history of the beach at Misquamicut goes way back to the first Paleo-Indians that came here to fish, hence the name Misqua-micut which, in the Narragansett language, means place of the red fish. With the pros-perity created by the Industrial Revolution a leisure class began to go to the beach for rec-reational purposes. In the 1890s, a large tent city at the junction of Benson Avenue and Atlantic Avenue sprang up. The only building on the beach was Captain James Thompson’s Fish Hut. Court Bliven and his family, who had been staying in tents, purchased a lot in 1894 and built the first cottage called the Pioneer. While inspecting the construction of the cottage Court’s wife Trudy, impressed by the view, exclaimed, “What a pleasant view.” And so the area was named Pleasant View Beach.

As more people came to the beach to enjoy the cool ocean breezes a real estate boom began. You could buy a 50-foot by 150-foot ocean front lot for $50. In 1908, a trolley line was built down what is today Winnapaug Road all the way to the beach. By 1920 the fledgling resort had four major hotels, more than 120 cottages, and a post office. In 1928 the US Postal Service changed the name from Pleasant View Beach to its Narragansett Indian name, Misquamicut.

One of the earliest immigrants to open a business on the beach, that still exists today, was Harry Trefes. Harry came through Ellis Island in 1905 and later settled in Westerly.

In 1921, he purchased the Atlantic Beach Ca-sino. It had been a trolley park that was built by the trolley company to attract customers. The large wooden building had a dance hall, skating rink, carousel, and 200 bathhouses on the bottom floor. Harry changed the name to the Atlantic Beach Park. During the Hurricane of 38, the original building was completely destroyed.

I sat down with 91-year-old Elias Trefes, known as Lou, who reminisced about his father.

“The 38 hurricane washed the casino out, I was there at the time. We had a cottage facing the ocean. My father, mother, and I were sitting there eating breakfast when all of a sudden we heard this giant roar. We went out to the dining room and the wind had blown the roof off. My father said ‘I think we better go to our home in town.’ I cried all night because we had left my little Boston Terrier behind in the cottage. The next morn-ing my father and I went down to see what had happened but the National Guard would not let you go any further than Shore Road. Shore Road was where all the debris had washed up from the storm. We drove down Shore Road and amazingly on a piece of our merry-go-round roof was my little dog. He survived the hurricane riding on that piece of roof. We lost all those people down there but my little dog survived.”

“After the 38 hurricane my father and Frank Enos went up to Lawrence, Massa-chusetts where there were a lot of old mills that closed after the depression. My father bought one and they took it apart and brought it down here. That’s where all the steel in the Windjammer came from. That’s the building that’s there today. My brother Charlie and I co-owned the business and ran it for 60 years.”

Today, the Trefes family properties are divided between Charles and Lou’s three children. The Atlantic Beach Park is owned by Charles Trefes, son of Charles. The main building, which once housed the roller skat-ing rink, is the Windjammer Surf Bar and the

Mariner Room. The Windjammer is a sports bar and restaurant that opens directly onto an oceanfront patio. On weekends this pop-ular landmark has live entertainment. Enjoy their delicious seafood dishes, salads, wings, and amazing burgers as well as summer cocktails. After lunch or dinner enjoy the best soft serve ice cream on the beach at Dusty’s Dairy Bar.

Along with an arcade and kiddie rides, the Atlantic Beach Park’s main attraction is its magnificent 1915 Herschell-Spillman Carousel with Illions horses. The carousel is one of only a few hundred still surviving in the country.

“My daughter, Alliandra, is 15 and proba-bly the youngest person in the country that can actually grease an antique carousel,” said Charles. “She’s the fourth generation and she’s waiting in the wings.”

On the bay side of Atlantic Avenue Lou Trefes’s daughter, Sally Trefes Sorenson, opened the gift shop Horse of a Different Color. It’s the largest gift, souvenir, and beach supply store in Misquamicut. Sally grew up at the beach and from the time she was 12, she worked with her father doing just about every job at the Atlantic Beach Park. She ran the skating rink concession, bathhouses, the ticket booth, was a lifeguard, and when she turned 18, she bartended at the Windjam-mer. Sally also managed the Windjammer from 2010 to 2017.

In 1981, when Sally turned 21, her father thought it would be nice to have a gift shop at their end of the beach. He suggested that she open one on a family-owned property across the street. Sally was able to buy out a beach gift shop that was going out of business. It’s been a successful 40-year run but instead of retiring she is taking over the Water Wizz water slide next door and opening a coffee shop and beer/wine tasting room called the Sun & Sea Beanery and Tasting Room.

Lou’s son, Harry Trefes, owns the Bayview Fun Park. Harry decided to build a family en-tertainment center in 1995 on Trefes family

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vegetables out in front. I took the business over in the 1980s when my parents retired.”

Today, Alfie’s Surf Shop sells men’s, women’s, and children’s apparel including bathing suits, Reef sandals, and beach supplies from sunscreen to surf boards. Alfie’s Beach Store carries a large variety of souvenirs, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and almost anything else you would ever need at the beach.

You will find the Winnapaug Inn and the Venice Restaurant located together on Winnapaug Pond beside the Winnapaug Golf Course. Antonio and Anna DiMarco came here in the late 1960s from Italy and opened the Inn in 1988. The inn was enlarged in 1997 and they opened the Venice Restaurant next to the inn in 2000.

“It was plansned as a smaller restaurant,” said Nunzio Demarco, who’s run the restaurant for the last 20 years. “Then we thought we needed two ballrooms so it went from a one-floor building to a three-floor building. We do a lot of events, corporate functions, rehearsal dinners, baby showers, wedding showers, and weddings.”

“A lot of the recipes are my mother’s, like our Bolognese sauce and our marinara sauce. My mother loves to cook and we still carry on that tradition. We have a lot of local customers that have been coming to the restaurant for generations so it’s a real family atmosphere. I grew up in the restaurant business doing a little bit of everything. I actually have an engineering degree from URI but I didn’t pursue engineering as a career. I went into the hospi-tality industry here in the family business and 20 years later I’m still at it.”

Just steps from Misquamicut Beach situated on five beautiful acres is The Breezeway Resort, a family owned business, that is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Today, it is managed by John Bellone whose parents, Nicola and Maria Bellone, both emigrated from Italy. They ended up in Misquamic-ut because Maria loved the ocean. Nicola worked as a mason.

“He was driving to work one day when he saw the for sale sign on the Breezeway Motel and he went to see his friend, Stanton Terranova Sr., who had listed the property,” said John. “Stanton said to my father, ‘I’m not going to do anything until you go ask your wife. You get her permission first.’ My father asked my mother and I guess it was fine because here we are 50 years later.” In 1970, John was just nine months old when the Bellone family moved into a cottage on the prop-erty. Originally the Breezeway had 12 motel rooms but over the years the resort has expanded in size and now has 50 rooms.

In 1994 John’s mother, Maria, was walking to the beach when she saw that Dino’s Seafood House was for sale. The Bellone family bought the property, they renovated the restaurant and it became the highly regarded Maria’s Seaside Café. Ma-ria’s Seaside Cafe has the feeling of a bustling Italian trattoria. You can choose from house made ravioli or one of Chef Rafael’s nightly seafood specials.

The Bellone family had been thinking about building a hotel, but was in no hurry, until hurricane Sandy came along. “There was five feet of sand inside the build-ing and the whole restaurant was destroyed,” said John. “It seemed like a good opportunity to build a new restaurant and hotel. I named the new hotel, The Hotel Maria, in honor of my mother, Maria Bellone, who passed away in 2014.”

This summer the beach will again be hosting visitors for another fun filled season. There will be other challenges ahead for the family businesses at the beach in the years ahead but these people have prov-en they’re resilient and will continue to thrive. It’s been over 100 years since Court and Trudy built their cottage on the beach. Since then Misquamicut has developed into a vibrant residential and resort community. If Trudy could see Misquamicut today I’m sure she’d say “What a pleasant view.”

land that was just a vacant lot on the bay side of Atlantic Avenue.

“The idea was to enhance family enter-tainment by catering to older kids and adults while the Atlantic Beach Park across the road featured rides for younger kids.”

The center features a small beach on the bay where you can rent a kayak or just chill. They do fishing charters, have an awarding winning 18-hole mini-golf course, a Super Slide, Slick Track Go-Karts, splashing bumper boats, two multi-speed dual softball/baseball batting cages, and a four-place bungee jump.

Another iconic landmark and one of the best hangouts, with live music and great food on the beach, is the Colucci family’s Andrea Seaside Restaurant and Beach Bar, originally the Andrea Hotel. The 100-year-old hotel had 26 rooms and was open part-time year round hosting weddings and holiday celebrations. The hotel building was severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. It would have been very expensive to rebuild the old build-ing so the family made the painful decision to demolish it and reinvent the hotel into the restaurant and bar it is today. They did save the old stone fireplace, which had so many family memories, and moved it to the patio. You can sit in front of the fire and watch the sunset over the ocean. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Rebecca Colucci spoke about her fam-ily’s history: “The Andrea first opened in 1912. It was originally two houses that were combined into one building and made into a bed and breakfast. My great grandfather, Leonard, bought the Andrea with his two sisters in 1944 after the ‘38 hurricane, and my grandfather Ralf ran it.”

After her grandfather passed away her father, Lenny, bought out his brothers and ran the business along with Rebecca and her sister Michelle.

The Colucci family found out after Sandy just how much support they had from the local community.

“It was so touching to see the large number of people who volunteered to help us, sometimes 30 a day would show up to

help us dig out. Some were past employees who worked here when I was a child, it was great,” said Rebecca. “The tent we put up was a temporary fix to keep some revenue coming in while we rebuilt. We spent a lot of money on architectural plans and we have a whole beautiful hotel on paper but when we sent it out to bid it was a $10 million project. Then the business we started doing with the temporary structure was more than we ever did with the old hotel and we thought let’s rethink this.”

The two sisters continue to run the busi-ness today out of the makeshift building.

One person who had a lot to do with what Misquamicut is today is John Vacca, better known as Johnny Beachcomber. He came to Misquamicut in 1947, right after WWII, and opened a little snack bar. His specialty was the Misquamicut pepper burger and people would come from all over to get Johnny Beachcomber’s pepper burger. Because people started leaving the keys to their cottages with him so often he thought he should go into the real estate business, so Beachcomber Real Estate Agency was born. The company is now owned by his daughter, Michelle Vacca, who also happens to be the Misquamicut Fire District Moderator.

“We’ve been selling, renting, and manag-ing real estate in Misquamicut for 73 years and helping families find the perfect beach property,” said Michelle. “My parents were married in 1954 and I was born that August. Two weeks after I was born Hurricane Carol came in and wiped out the whole beach. My father had a new wife, a new baby, and no business. Everything was gone and he had to rebuild. My father, Gerard Nardone, and Stanton Terranova Sr. got together and came up with the idea to buy property for a Mis-quamicut Fire District beach and that’s how the MFD got their beaches. My father was very protective of those beaches. Because of all he’d done for the Town of Westerly the town made him Beach Commissioner of Westerly. They renewed his appointment ev-ery year because of who he was. Funny thing is my father couldn’t swim and never went in

the water but he loved the beach.”Sadly the Misquamicut community recent-

ly lost Stanton Terranova Sr. (and Stanton Terranova Jr.) who worked with John Vacca to acquire the land for the MFD beaches. Stanton was an electrician by trade but also a skilled businessman. He opened Stanton Realty in 1959 and commissioned his two sisters, Lois and Jane, and brother-in-law Laverne, to work alongside him during the formative years making Stanton Realty a true family enterprise. His entrepreneurship ex-tended into other ventures and one of them was The Pleasant View Inn. From 1965 to 2013 he owned and operated the 112 room oceanfront resort further securing Misqua-micut Beach as a summer destination.

The Fiore family owns and operates three businesses at the beach, Alfie’s Surf Shop, Alfie’s Beach Store, and the concession stand Little Mermaid’s. Erika Fiore is the third generation in the family business.

“I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t working in the store. My mom said she taught me to give back change to the cus-tomers when I was three.”

Gary Fiore talked about the family busi-ness history: “The business was started by Salvatore Fiore, my grandfather, after he mi-grated from Italy. If you lived in Misquamicut in the 1930s you’d see a bright red 1937 Diamond T truck that he delivered fruits and vegetables with. I still have the old truck.”

Gary looked through a pile of old photo-graphs as he described how the original store started.

“My father, Arthur Fiore, bought some property on Atlantic Avenue and started Fiore’s Market in 1946. His brother, Thomas Bates Fiore, had a market right on the corner across from the carousel in Watch Hill. They would go to Providence, buy the fruit, and load the trucks up every day. My mother worked at the store and my father went on the road. The store got completely leveled by Hurricane Carol in 1954 and they rebuilt it. The market slowly evolved into more of a retail store selling grinders, ice, postcards, ands beach supplies. They had fruit and

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By Shane BelangerMisquamicut, RI is known for many things

– the beach of course, but also the restau-rants, the events, the sun & fun and fishing. Coming down Weekapaug road is an adven-ture for the senses; the sights, the sounds, the smells. Turning right onto Atlantic Ave and heading over the Weekapaug bridge, brings you to Weekapaug Bait & Tackle.

Fishermen travel from all parts of New England to fish at the Weekapaug breachway and various beaches throughout the year. New to the local fishing scene, but not to business, is local businessman Peter Silva. Pete, as his friends call him, is the new owner of Weekapaug Bait & Tackle.

Pete is a local guy who grew up learning about clamming and fishing from his Grand-father, father and uncles. His love for the lo-cal salt ponds, whose unique ecosystems are only found here in Rhode Island, was instilled at a young age during those excursions for

the local seafood bounty.He maintains the local, family run business

atmosphere by having his Uncle Mike help out with the merchandising at both loca-tions, as-well-as being a general manager of operations for both stores. Customer service is Pete’s top priority and his knowledge about the area will have you enjoying your time in Misquamicut like a local!

Pete is now the 4th owner, and each of them have their own story. Mike Cardinal, a previous owner, has become a mentor to Pete, and also runs his custom rod & repair business at the Weekapaug location. After purchasing the business from the last owner, Tony Pocchia, who had changed the name to Misquamicut Bait & Tackle, Pete wanted to rename the store to it’s original name of Weekapaug Bait & Tackle. After meeting with Charlie Maggs, the founder of the store, Pete received his blessing to use the original name, so the next chapter can be written.

Weekapaug Bait & Tackle and her sister store, Quonnie Bait & Tackle – shout out to Gary & Abby who work at the Quonnie location – are full service bait & tackle shops. They both stock live bait, frozen bait, fishing rods, reels, all tackle needed whether fishing from a boat or land – in fresh water or salt water. Looking to check out the local rivers? They have fly-fishing rods and gear too. Mis-quamicut is known for her shellfish, and they carry a full line of high-quality clamming gear. To ensure you are legal, they are an approved state vendor for all required state licenses.

Weekapaug Bait & Tackle is located directly across from Dunes Park Beach and they are approved for beach parking. They sell and rent all of the sundries you will need to enjoy your time in Misquamicut – renting boogie boards, chairs, umbrellas; and selling all beach supplies and apparel.

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By Allie HerzogHere in Rhode Island, we all know

that beach season extends well into September, and locals and visitors alike have looked forward to visiting Misquamicut State Beach for the annual FallFest every September for the last nine years. This year marks a big milestone for the event, as it celebrates the 10th anniversary of FallFest and 20 years of both the spring and fall festivals combined. With the Covid-19 crisis forcing Springfest to be cancelled, Fallfest is shaping up to be bigger than ever and is expanding from three to four days!

The 10th Annual Misquamicut FallFest will take place on Thursday, September 17 – Sunday, Septem-ber 20, 2020. The event kicks off on Thursday from 5 p.m. – 11 p.m., then runs Friday 5pm-11pm and then 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Sunday. The now four-day event is orga-nized by the Misquamicut Business Association (MBA) and the Town of Westerly, and features world class carnival rides by Rockwell Amuse-ments, non-stop entertainment including live music, a Food Truck

Rodeo and an international food court, a two-day classic car show, a beer and wine tent, kids activities and much more.

“It’s the only place where you can see Block Island from the top of a Ferris Wheel,” said Charles Trefes, President of the Misquamicut Busi-ness Association.

FallFest is an event that’s truly enjoyed by all ages. It’s extremely family friendly yet also provides headlining entertainment and fun activities for adults. Rides include the Super Slide, Bumper Cars, Tilt a Whirl and a Fun House. There are kiddie rides too, such as a Merry Go Round, Speedway and Circus Train. Games include Knockerball, Skee Ball, Whac-a-mole and more. There will be roving entertainment in-cluding fire jugglers, magicians and princesses.

Whether you’re hankering for some fried seafood, a good old Del’s Lemonade or something more exotic, the Food Truck Rodeos got you covered with everything from chowder and fried dough, to sau-sage and peppers, cider and donuts, and plenty more.

They’ll be music under the tents

all weekend, with some big-name local acts expected.

The Annual Classic Car Show, in honor of Big John Hodis, will be held in the main lot on Saturday and Sunday. There is no entry fee and all classic and specialty cars are wel-come. All drivers and their passen-gers get free tickets to the festival.

There will be craft vendors selling various handmade goods, includ-ing housewares, candles, locally made honey, clothing, handbags and more. There are also children’s workshops, arts and crafts, face painting and henna tattoos.

Tickets are available at the door or can be purchased in advance through Eventbrite. Tickets are $9 per day and children under 7 are free. Parking is also free. Ride tickets are separate from admission tickets and can be bought onsite the day of the event. Rides take 3, 4 or 5 tickets per person and are $1 per ticket; 25 tickets for $20 or 40 tickets for $30. An all-day wristband is available on Sunday for only $25. The event is held rain or shine. For more information, visit misquamicutfestival.org.

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Westerly Town Beach Concession365 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891Winnapaug Country Club184 Shore RoadWesterly, RI 02891401-596-1237winnapaugcountryclub.comWindjammer Surf Bar321 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0504windjammersurfbarri.comSALON AND SPAUptown Seaside Salon57 Shore RoadWesterly, RI 02891401-596-9100www.uptownsalonspa.comSHOPPINGAlfie’s Surf Shop139 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-2984www.facebook.com/alfiessurfshop Horse of a Different Color328 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-7911 Jules142 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-1700Weekapaug Bait & Tackle664 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891Maggie’s Boutique65 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-637-4280Purple Ape17 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-6169www.purpleape.com

TOURIST INFORMATION CENTERMisquamicut Tourist Center316 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891www.misquamicut.orgwww.facebook.com/misquamicutbeachASSOCIATE & ALLIED MEMBERSACCOMMODATIONSAshaway RV ResortAshaway, RI 401-377-8100www.ashawayrvresort.comFoxwoods Resort CasinoMashantucket, CT1-800-FOXWOODwww.foxwoods.com Mohegan Sun CasinoUncasville, CT888-226-7711www.mohegansun.com ATTRACTIONSAlley Katz Bowling Center & Cleats Sports ClubWesterly, RI401-596-7474www.alleykatzri.com Granite TheatreWesterly, RI401-596-2341www.granitetheatre.com Napatree BikesWesterly, RI401-348-6317www.napatreebikes.com Norwich Sea UnicornsNorwich, CT860-887-7962 www.goseaunicorns.comPaddle Surf RIWesterly, RI401-741-5661www.paddlesurfri.comAUTOMOTIVEOcean Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAMWesterly, RI401-596-2077www.OceanWesterly.com

Valenti Toyota & Subaru of WesterlyWesterly, RI401-322-7200www.valentisubaru.com www.valentitoyota.comCAR WASHWesterly Car WashWesterly, RI401-596-6888www.westerlycarwash.com CLEANING SERVICESSouth County Carpet and Upholstery CleaningWesterly, RI401-300-8009southcountycarpetcleaning.comCONSTRUCTION SERVICESBrookside ElectricWesterly, RI401-596-2770www.brooksideelectric.com Can Do It ManWesterly, RI401-258-7023Cherenzia and Associates, LTDPawcatuck, CT860-629-6500 401-596-7747www.cherenzia.com D & V Mechanical Inc.Westerly, RI401-741-2704www.dvmechanical.com Gencarella Plumbing Inc.Westerly, RI401-596-0042Tattersall BuildersNorth Stonington, CT860-303-3461Uzzi PlumbingWesterly, RI401-596-7097DJ & ENTERTAINMENT SERVICESCaswell Cooke DJ ProductionsWesterly, RI401-932-3519www.caswellcooke.com

ACCOMODATIONSBeach Ball Inn20 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-8370 www.beachballinn.comBreezeway Resort70 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-348-8953www.breezewayresort.comMisquamicut Beach Front Inn145 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-212-9212misquamicutbeachfront.comPleasant View Inn65 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-348-8200www.pvinn.comPoint 1 Resort & Motel24 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-348-0320www.point1motel.comSand Castle Beach Front Inn141 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-6900sandcastlebeachfrontinn.comSandy Shore Motel & Apartments149 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-5616www.sandyshore.comSea Shell Motel19 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-348-8337 www.seashellmotel.com

The Hotel Maria132 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-622-4000www.thehotelmaria.comThe Villa at Westerly190 Shore RoadWesterly, RI 02891401-596-1054www.thevillaatwesterly.comWinnapaug Inn169 Shore RoadWesterly, RI 02891401-348-8350www.winnapauginn.comATTRACTIONSAtlantic Beach Park 321 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0504www.atlanticbeachpark.comBayview Fun Park330 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0810www.facebook.com/bayviewfunparkMisquamicut Beach Jet Ski Rental15 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-6169www.purpleape.comNew England Science & SailingPO Box 733Stonington, CT 06378860-535-9362www.nessf.orgWinnapaug Country Club184 Shore RoadWesterly, RI 02891401-596-1237winnapaugcountryclub.comBEACH PARKINGAtlantic Beach Park 321 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0504www.atlanticbeachpark.com

Bayview Fun Park330 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0810Facebook: Bayview Fun Park Dune’s Park Family Beach665 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0935 Facebook: Dunes ParkFlyhawk Parking308 & 310 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891561-267-6920www.beachparking.comJim’s Trailer Park & Beach Parking347 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-7532Paddy’s Beach 159 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-2610www.paddysbeach.comPropark AmericaMisquamicut State Beach257 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891www.propark.comSam’s Beach Parking301 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-1432The Andrea89 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-348-8788www.andreabeachbar.comWuskenau Town Beach Parking311 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-0110www.westerlyrec.com

COTTAGE RENTALS &REAL ESTATEBeachcomber Real Estate10 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-348-8669www.ribeachcomber.comOnshore Realtors57 Shore Road. Suite BMisquamicut RI 02891401-315-2588www.onshorerealtors.comStanton Realty18 Winnapaug RoadMisquamicut, RI 02891401-596-2885www.stantonrealty.comRESTAURANTS & BARSBeach Bums Café & Creamery142 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-824-9950The Original Dusty’s Dairy Bar323 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-322-CONEwww.dustysdairybar.comDel’s Lemonade of Weekapaug662 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-315-0184Dusty’s of Weekapaug662 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891401-315-2780Gino’s on the Beach 144 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891401-388-8400Hawaiian Shaved Ice 310 Atlantic Avenue Misquamicut, RI 02891860-389-4997Little Mermaids139 Atlantic AvenueMisquamicut, RI 02891

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MEDIA & MARKETING3G Broadcasting - MIXX99.3 & 1540AM WADKNewport, RI401-846-1540www.mixx993.comAtlas StudiosWakefield, RI401-286-2922www.atlasstudios.comCumulus Media102.3 The Wolf, Q-105 WXLMNew London, CT860-443-1980www.cumulus.com Hall Radio –WNLC / WCTY / WKNL / WICHNorwich, CT860-887-3511www.wcty.com In PublicationsOld Saybrook, CT 860-303-6690www.inckct.comMotifPawtucket, RI401-312-3305www.motifri.comSun Media GroupWesterly, RI401-348-1000www.thewesterlysun.com

WBLQ 1230 AM 96.7 FM The BuzzWesterly, RI401-322-9091www.wblq.net Westerly LifeWesterly, RI401-594-4095www.westerlylife.com WPRI MediaEast Providence, RI401-438-7200www.wpri.comVisitNewEngland.comWarwick, RI401-921-3000www.visitnewengland.com MEDICAL & DENTAL SERVICESChoice Physical Therapy of WesterlyWesterly, RI401-348-1010choicephysicaltherapyri.com Crestview Dental AssociatesWesterly, RI401-596-0319crestviewdentalassociates.com Dunn’s Corners Chiropractic CenterWesterly, RI401-322-8822dunnscornerschiro.com South County Hospital Healthcare SystemWakefield, RI401-782-8000southcountyhealth.orgYale New Haven Health Westerly HospitalWesterly, RI401-596-6000www.westerlyhospital.org NON – PROFIT ORGANIZATIONSFrank Olean CenterWesterly, RI401-596-2091www.oleancenter.org Westerly Education CenterWesterly, RI401-736-1100www.westerlyedcenter.org

PET SERVICESOPENING SUMMER 2020 Westerly, RI 02891 860-992-8659 www.SaltyPawsRI.comPHOTOGRAPHERSAmy Martira PhotographyWesterly, RI401-338-5745amymartiraphotography.com Granite Photo Inc.Westerly, RI401-348-8166granitephotoonline.com PRINTINGPrinting PlusWesterly, RI401-596-6970www.printingplusri.comPROFESSIONAL SERVICESConsulting Services- Consulting Government RelationsWesterly, RI860-933-4405PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS/UNIFORMS/SCREEN PRINTINGJ. Mack Studios, LLCWesterly, RI401-932-8600www.jmackstudios.com REALTORS & COTTAGE RENTALSHoldredge House & Cottage RentalsWesterly, RI401-596-5866Lila Delman Real EstateWatch Hill, RI401-348-1999www.liladelman.com RESTAURANTSB&B DocksideWesterly, RI401-315-2520www.bnbdockside.com Casa Della LuceWesterly, RI401-637-4575www.casadellaluce.net

Cold Stone CreameryWesterly, RI401-596-COLD coldstonecreamery.com Del’s of WesterlyWesterly, RI401-315-0184Guytanno’s International RestaurantWesterly, RI401-348-6221www.guytannosri.com Junk N JavaWesterly, RI401-315-0111Malted BarleyWesterly, RI401-315-2184www.themaltedbarlyri.com Ninety-Nine RestaurantWesterly, RI401-348-8299www.99restaurants.com Pick PocketsWesterly, RI401-637-7900pickpocketswesterly.com The Cooked GooseWesterly, RI401-348-9888www.thecookedgoose.com The Haversham TavernWesterly, RI401-322-1717www.thehaversham.com The Sea Goose Grill & Raw BarWesterly, RI401-315-0788www.theseagoose.comVoc’s Dunns Corners PizzaWesterly, RI401-322-0221dunnscornerspizza.com SHOPPINGAffordable FurnishingsWesterly, RI401-348-6363www.westerlyfurniture.com Fantastic Umbrella FactoryCharlestown, RI401-596-7506fantasticumbrellafactory.com

Chris Walsh Video ProductionsWesterly, RI401-596-0133www.chrispro.com KG Audio SystemsDudley, MA774-200-7505www.kgaudiosystems.com Ocean State PyrotechnicsHope Valley, RI401-480-2318oceanstatepyrotechnics.comFINANCIAL SERVICESAmerican Payroll ServiceJohnston, RI401-232-7200www.payrollmatters.com

Atlantic ATM, LLCTopsfield, MA978-356-6148www.atlanticatm.com Berkshire BankWesterly, RI401-596-5353www.BerkshireBank.comDime BankWesterly, RI401-596-4742 www.dime-bank.com Hoyt, Filippetti & Malaghan, LLCWesterly, RI401-596-2000www.mysticcpa.com

The Washington Trust CompanyWesterly, RI401-348-1637www.washtrust.com Westerly CommunityCredit UnionWesterly, RI401-596-7000www.westerlyccu.com FISHING Watch Hill ChartersWesterly, RI401-474-5095www.watchhillcharters.com

FITNESS Michelle’s L’Ecole De DanseWesterly RI401-596-5101Facebook: Michelle’s L’Ecole De Danse Shield Martial ArtsWesterly, RI401-596-8360westerlymartialarts.com HAIR SALONSNew Image Styling SalonWesterly, RI401-322-0033newimagewesterly.comINSURANCELouis Panciera Insurance AgencyWesterly, RI401-596-4977www.louispancierainc.comThorp & Trainer, Inc.Westerly, RI401-596-0146www.thorptrainer.com LANDSCAPINGRDS LandscapingWest Kingston, RI401-207-6006www.rdslandscapingri.comLAUNDRY SERVICES The Laundry MatWesterly, RI401-596-4000LEGAL SERVICESOrsinger, Nardone, Lallo & Thomsen Law OfficeWesterly, RI401-596-2094LIQUOR STORESWarehouse - Beer - Wine LiquorWesterly RI401-596-6160www.thewinestoreri.com MARKETSDunn’s Corners MarketWesterly, RI401-322-1660dunnscornersmarket.com

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RELIGIOUS SERVICESRELIGIOUS SERVICESAssembly of GodOcean Community Christian Church 120 Main St., Westerly 401-596-7400 oceancommunitycc.orgBaptistCentral Baptist Church 16 Elm St.,Westerly 401-596-4929 www.cbcwesterly.orgPleasant Street Baptist Church 37 Pleasant St., Westerly 401-596-1923 fb.com/Pleasant-Street-Baptist-Church-StudyEpiscopalChrist Church 7 Elm St., Westerly 401-596-0197 christchurchwesterly.org

Multi-DenominationalWatch Hill Chapel 5 Bluff Ave., Watch Hill 401-348-0060 www.watchhillchapel.orgMethodistGrace United Methodist Church 10 Park Ave., Westerly 401-596-8000 www.graceri.orgNon- DenominationalAvondale Chapel 11 Avondale Rd., Westerly 401-596-4929 www.avondalechapel.orgWeekapaug Chapel 106 Noyes Neck Road Westerly, RI 02891

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