Roger Williams Natural History Museum

The jaws right whale greet visitors to the Roger Williams Natural History Museum. The realization that a creature that large swims off our shores startles the imagination. The curious collection of taxidermy and anthropological specimens was inspiring while slightly creepy. Speckels, dots and stripes, stuffed birds and mammals, inspired me to snap some iPad photos.

A fierce grizzly bear and mounted deer head.

Time for a cigar in the study..

Found only in Cumberland, Cumberlandite is Rhode Island’s state rock.