On November 4, 2008, I was elected to the District 75 seat of the Rhode Island House of Representative. It was resounding victory! We knocked out the incumbent with a 55% to 45% victory.

Last November, after two years of service to the citizens of District 75, I was reelected by a margin of 62.5% of the vote!

The 2011 legislative session has been most successful for me! I was able to get 8 significant bills passed and enacted into law. A detailed report of these accomplishments will be published in early October.

Information about my accomplishments, and some unexpected public recognition that I received, during the past three years has been provided in the District 75 section of this website. 

For an understanding of how else I am enjoying my life, check out the rest of this website.

In November of 2010, a constituent asked me to submit a resolution to the Rhode Island House of Representatives which would ask the Governor to grant a pardon to John Gordon, an Irish immigrant who was hanged in 1845 for a murder which many knowledgeable people believe that he did not commit. In January 2011, I submitted such a resolution to the House Judiciary Committee. In addition, I learned more about this case by attending a stage play, "The Murder Trial of John Gordon", which ran at the Park Theatre in Cranston, RI during January and February of 2011.

I am delighted to announce that the Resolution was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee by a 13 to 0 vote. On May 11th, the resolution was passed unanimously on a floor vote of the House of Representatives [75 to 0]. It was passed by the Senate Committee on Special Legislation and then passed by the Senate

In June, Governor Chafee granted the pardon to John Gordon. There will be a 'John Gordon Memorial' weekend on October 8th and 9th.

For more information, click on this link .

The 2003 display of my photography at the Ocean Coffee Roasters has led to a new venture. I am now producing a line of note cards that I call 'PhotoNotes' for an article which was published on January 2, 2008. These cards feature my photos of popular Newport scenes and matching envelopes. The first few have to do with the OCNRR Railroad, Trinity Church, the Gulls at Cardines Field, the Commissioning of the USS Chafee [DDG 90], and the local fishing fleet.

Click here to see the latest designs and ordering information.

• USS Chafee Commissioning - On October 18, 2003, I attended the commissioning ceremony for the USS Chafee. I wrote an article about the ceremony that was published in the Newport Daily News. I have also published a photo of the event which is now hanging on the quarterdeck of the ship. Copies of the photo were hung in then Senator Lincoln Chafee's offices in Washington and Newport.
• Hibernian Digest - Following the Newport This Week publication, I was asked to submit an article to the National Hibernian Digest it was about the Rhode Island Hibernians efforts to support returning and homeless veterans, as well as, the program to ship care packages to Iraq. It appeared in the May - June 2008 issue.
• Boston Globe - I was asked to submit my 'Newport Green' photo of the Old Colony & Newport Railway to the Boston Globe for a travel section special which was published on May 4, 2008.
• Newport This Week published an article that I wrote [and an accompanying photo about the Hibernians sending 'care packages' to our soldiers in Iraq. It appeared in their March 2008 issue.
• Newport This Week asked me to take photos of Jim Gleason for an article which was published on January 2, 2008.
• The Conway Scenic Railroad requested permission to publish a photo that I had taken of one of their engineers. It was published in their Fall Newsletter
• Railpace Magazine published two of my photos of the Island Touring Train being delivered by barge to Melville in their July 2007 issue.
• A Tour of the Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay - These photos were taken by me during a Harbor Tour conducted by the Friends of the Waterfront on June 27, 2004 Waterfront Tour. They are a link on the Friends of the Waterfront website.
• The Newport Dinner Train published their 2001 and 2002 brochures with three photos from my 'Kennedy Special' collection.
• One of my earlier photos was published on the back and inside front covers of 'Reflections Poems & Songs'  by Sheila Laureta [2000 - Dando Press, San Francisco, CA].
• The Old Colony & Newport Railway photo section of this website has been completely updated. You can now view most of the 13 mile Newport Secondary track on this site. In order to share these photos with the 'real rail buffs', I have placed the best of them on the New England Railroad Photo Archives,
• I have just published some photos of the Newport Gulls Baseball Club. Check them out in the Photo Collections section.
• Visit my Photo Collections section to see my recent photos of Macroom, Ireland.
• I currently attempting to put together a collection of non-traditional photos of Newport scenery. . Check them out in the Photo Collections section.

For about 6 years until I ran for office, I served as a qualified engineer and brakeman for the tourist runs.