Go There!

Going there is lots of fun because you can kind of walk around and look at a few different things.  For one, you can see the Quonset Huts that a three by three down a main walkway. There are camouflaged painted like jungle paint. You can also walk down the paths that go into a little forest. This is where small little bunkers are located. They are sort of underground, more like covered in grass and moss and little trees. But from the air and potential enemy bombers from an old war I think they would work. Also, coming out of the forest you see the gift shop, now closed for the day and you see an interesting looking church. It actually is a church built out of slabs of concrete. It was actually built Seabees as their own house of worship. Then coming out on the grassy highland of the Park you can get really close the Seabee which overlooks a road that leads to some retail space, mostly underused space…. 

Ask!!

For this one it's a little odd because when I went there the normal hours were closed. But, I did visit the local library to do some research for this project I was directed to the Special South Country Room at the North Kingstown Public Library. This room is specially designed for local history and it contains texts relevant to local history. It even has original text like pictures, journals, and others from locals in the past. So the only way to get in this room is to be let in by a research librarian. They must register you, you can’t touch anything, no kids, and it’s very important the nothing leaves the room. So the must contact the librarian and they will unlock the door and show you around, Its very neat and cold just like a museum! They helped find the materials and also made sure I put it back when I was done.     

Read More!

Well there is not too much on the Subject of just Seabee alone, you usually have to do some search in either navy history or local history. But there is a book Davisville and the Seabees that contains almost all of what you’re looking for. It is written by a local historian and contains lots of good information regarding the area and how the Seabees transformed it during WWII.

The other book is The Seabees and World War II. It’s an illustrated book, I think written for kids and its small being only 200 or so pages but it has some great pictures and great general information about what the Seabees did.

As far as journalistic articles, there are many about the Seabees usually about their Memorial Day activities. 

What I Know!

What I know about the Seabee memorial comes from two different memories . One the Seabee statue used to be right on Route One facing the traffic. It used to sit on a grassy knoll as an entrance to rest of what used to be Navy buildings. Once the Navy pulled out I think in the early 90’s the Seabee was moved around, restored, housed in a building as storage, and once they found a suitable site, moved to its current spot. The other memory comes from going to the Air shows every year. During the summer usually in July, you have to wait in traffic usually so you could see the Blue Angels. Anyway, you always had to wait in traffic and sit a stare at the strange looking Bee holding a machine gun. As a kid I always thought it was strange looking. 

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Hello, this is my field analysis blog for Writing Culture 302 for Summer 2011!!!!