One of the highlights of my
end-of-October visit to Providence was a bus tour stop at DePasquale Plaza, in the Federal Hill neighborhood of the city. Though
other types of ethnic eateries are beginning to populate the area, it remains
overwhelmingly dominated by the Italian influence—not just in the number of
high-quality restaurants, but also in this center of the community, designed
with all the charm of a piazza.
The two gentlemen in the cowboy hats were, you may
have surmised, from Texas, in town for a convention. (I know this because they
were on my bus.) Between that headgear and the Old World architecture that
surrounds them, they really seemed as if they were walking around in another
country.
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