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From West to East to MA, Now Seekonk is My Home

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Seekonk became my home in 2002. Growing up, I was a West Bay kid who began a law enforcement career on the East Bay. This was a big change from where I grew up, because any Rhode Islander knows that traveling all the way from the West Bay to the East Bay was an all-day affair. I probably did not become aware of Seekonk until my early twenties (disclosure; I am no longer in my twenties.)

Apparently I did travel as a kid to Seekonk, but back then it was because some new places like Ann & Hope and Heartland Supermarket were so large and offered so many things to shop for that my Mom was able to travel all the way across the East Bay into a different state and back … all in a single day!

The years flew by and I met a Rumford girl. Though I enjoyed being near the water and Pawtuxet Village, I went on to marry that Rumford girl. It became a foregone conclusion that I would have to pack my bags and move over to the East Bay. Apparently it is an unwritten Rhode Island rule that the East Bay does not move to the West Bay. As I think of everyone I know in my life, I cannot think of one person or couple that moved from East Providence or Barrington to say … Cranston.

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Life in our starter home in Rumford was content. I learned the joys of trying to remove wallpaper from walls (there is not a shred of it in my current home) and other improvements (it is amazing what a level can do). Things were going well and then the Rumford girl's parents went and moved to Seekonk. Then her brother moved to Seekonk. In yet another forgone conclusion, it looked like we would be moving to Seekonk.

With three small children, the oldest just reaching school age, we began planning for the next stage. I did make a feeble attempt to buy land in Little Compton, but one way or another it appeared that Seekonk was the place to be. What kind of house can you build if you don’t want to deal with wallpaper or paint? The solution was constructing a log home.

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This involved a bit of a leap of faith. The leap part was literal. We moved in with my in-laws in the spring of 2002. Life during construction was quite interesting with my young family of five sharing in their three-bedroom ranch. It might have been a little crowded at times and there may have been some struggles over the remote control, but for the first time in our lives we were members of the Seekonk community. 

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