As our final public work here in Providence, Rhode Island, today we walked the now ascent shoreline of the natural cove that shaped the original geography of this city – a body of water and salt marsh reclaimed and almost completely covered by developments of the city’s centre over the last 150 years.
![Providence cove [event detail]](http://mikebrookes.com/media/historyrepeating/cove-walk01.jpg)
Accompanied and met by local residents, we followed the streets and paths that now sit above the water’s edge, meeting the scale and geography of the cove’s now absent water – as mapped on city surveys of the mid 1800s – through a simple navigation of the developments and daily uses of its area in the present…
![Providence cove [event detail]](http://mikebrookes.com/media/historyrepeating/cove-walk02.jpg)
Photos: David Higgins