“The ‘Real Fabric’ of West Warwick:  Its People

“The ‘Real Fabric’ of West Warwick: Its People

Dick Hughes:  West Warwick’s ‘Renaissance Man’… “Dye coming,” was the warning Dick Hughes heard as a boy, swimming in the mill river by his home. Boyhood friends would take turns performing sentry duty, calling out to others when a fresh stream of dye waste was released by the mill into the river.  They’d swim to…