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Photo newsletter: great teachers and an interview with Roger Williams

Michael Delaney
The Providence Journal

Hello everyone!

It is a bit of a challenge but still fun when The Journal is contacted to cover a surprise event. Such was the case this week when two Rhode Island teachers were honored in two different spots in the state: Burrillville and Central Falls. Journal photographers Kris Craig and David DelPoio were on the road to do the coverage, while trying not to be too conspicuous at the same time. The pictures captured the joyful emotion of the events.

John Rosenbaum, a sixth-grade social studies teacher at the Segue Institute for Learning in Central Falls, was one of two Rhode Island teachers surprised with $25,000 Milken Educator Awards on Tuesday.
As the assembly cheers and applauds, Nancie Lawrence makes her way toward the giant $25,000 Milken Educator Award check bearing her name.

Journal reporter Tom Mooney was with David on a story this week about a man who served more than 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Paul Courteau was in court, and then outside it, to make some remarks about his experience. He will receive more than $500,000 for being wrongly imprisoned.

Paul Courteau outside court

Our Rhode Island State House is a regular venue for all kinds of rallies and protests. This week, it was two groups of people who have strong feelings about guns. Opponents of gun control, many wearing yellow shirts, gathered in the rotunda. At the same time, proponents of stricter laws, wearing orange shirts, rallied close by.

Opponents of gun control watch the hearings in the House Committee on Corporations room.
Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence volunteer Audrey Kupchan on the steps of the State House rotunda.

Journal reporter Amy Russo sat down this week for an interview with Roger Williams. Well, actually a park ranger in Providence who dresses like and looks convincingly like him. It will be for an upcoming column in The Providence Journal and providencejournal.com

John McNiff has spent six of his 26 years as a park ranger offering living history lessons in character as Roger Williams. He has also portrayed early Rhode Island settler William Blackstone.

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Stay safe and have a good week.  

Michael Delaney

Director of Photography

The Providence Journal