The group hike, organized by The Nature Conservancy, the nonprofit organization that owns and co-manages the preserve with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and the Town of ...

George E. Matteson spent decades roaming the back roads of western Rhode Island, creating hand-drawn maps that are a repository of local lore. A typical Matteson map, printed around the middle of ...

That golden ticket gave Middleton access to countless maps of Rhode Island and beyond. Middleton, a cartographer by trade, quickly made himself at home at The Map Center, which has been around ...