Posts by Rory Hennessey

Rory Hennessey co-manages ROMA Neighborhood Farms located on Aquidneck Island. She can be reached at rory.hennessey@gmail.com.
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Aquidneck Island: A Food System in the Making

By Rory Hennessey / October 6, 2014

On December 10, 1980, six years after travelling across the country as a Regional Manager for steakhouse chain Victoria Station, (the offspring of a Cornell University Hotel School graduate project) Ralph Plumb (Cornell Class of 1974) and his wife Pat opened the doors of the Brick Alley Pub in Newport, Rhode Island. Having curated a…

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