FOOTNOTES & SUB-SUBTEXT 😉
- To back up my quick-and-dirty math calculation (my favorite kind), Manhattan had approximately 70,000 people/square mile and Jamestown had around 500 people/square mile based on populations around 1.6 million people and 5000 people respectively.
Length and width of each island are in close proportion, albeit Jamestown is full of un-developable wetlands. Jamestown: approximately 9 miles long with widest point around 1.7 miles wide, and Manhattan is around 13 miles long, with widths varying from under one mile to around 2.3 miles. ↩︎ - Brush up on your Canterbury Tales, why don’t ya? ↩︎
I need you to know here that you can do a load of searching on Conanicut Island and Jamestown, RI in any number of websites to fill in the footnotes for yourself. These stories, on this website, are from my heart, soul, memory and myth.
The best searches and results are the best are the ones made by people, not AI on AI bullcrap.
Searching for your home town and encouraging real searches on real places and history is part of what I’ve been doing for a while now. Writing it is too, but I’m too unreliable to call myself a historian.
In my home town there’s now a tiny build-able footprint, high taxes, and difficulty moving to or from there for anyone not already an old-timey landowner, new money escapist one, or roaming nomad. Prove me wrong, please.
My mom fancied herself a nomad, she said so herself. Though she rented a single house from the Dowling family for 35 years. She’s the kind of nomad who arrives and rarely wants to leave. I’m grateful she got us there, even with the trials and troubles that followed. All in all, I’m glad Jamestown is my home town. Now I’m on the mainland, so you know, further to roam…
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