The first day I was on Block Island I had to kill an hour before checking into my room. So I wandered around the historic, touristy section of town and went looking for lunch.

I went into a cool shop call Lucky Fish and right up front on display there were beautiful plates and bowls by Park Slope’s own Claireware.

It warmed my heart. Claire’s work is unmistakable, colorful. She calls it urban folk pottery. I almost wrote urban fold poetry.

"I know the woman who makes those," I said proudly.

"Some friends of her came in here once and told us about her," the shopkeeper said. "We have other work by RISD artists."

Oh, that’s the connection. She probably went to the Rhode Island School of Design. And I’m in Rhode Island.

I wandered around the shop and admired many things.

"Hey, I love your taste in things," I told the shopkeeper. "Where should I have lunch?"

She told me about a place called Froozies. Order the Pond-something sandwich. It’s great, she said. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it…"

I did. And it was soooo tasty.

The next morning at my Inn, in the breakfast breakfast, there it was, again. A Claireware mug.

You can’t get too far from Brooklyn