A “trip” on the subway makes for a bizarro story!

You never know who's going to turn up in the stories on Elly McGuire's podcast, Shaking The Bushes—Yoko Ono, Jonas Salk, Richard Hatch (Richard Hatch?), even a former President, to name a few—as she shares humorous and often unpredictable autobiographical anecdotes and social commentary about living parallel lives in her "cozy" apartment in Manhattan and her childhood home in Warwick, Rhode Island.

What you think might be so different from residing in the biggest city in the world and in the smallest state in the union can actually turn out to be very much the same.

Author and adventurist Elly McGuire has traveled the world, rubbed shoulders with celebrated people, and is now "shaking the bushes" of her colorful past.

Visit the Shaking the Bushes ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Join lawyer and true crime fanatic Kate Itacy for stories about crimes allegedly committed by Warwick citizens or within Warwick city limits.

Today, hear the tale of reputed bootlegger and bank robber Carl Rettich and his Crime Castle, a Warwick Neck mansion owned by Rettich and alleged to be the hub for the Rettich gang’s criminal activities during the 1920s and 1930s. Underworld legend credits Carl Rettich with the invention of cement shoes, and he may have poured a pair for his associate Danny Walsh in a secret dungeon under the Crime Castle’s basement before throwing Walsh into Narragansett Bay.

Katherine Itacy was born and raised in Warwick, worked as a criminal defense lawyer in the city, and remains a civil rights and criminal justice advocate.

Write to Kate at contactkate@katherineitacy.com.

Visit Kate’s ⁠⁠website⁠⁠.

Music: ⁠⁠https://www.purple-planet.com⁠

Sound effects by the ⁠⁠BBC⁠⁠.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

From Patti Page in 1952 to Weezer in 1994, concerts at the Palladium and Midway stage were an essential part of Rocky Point. Hear about shows by small acts that would become big, the night in 1978 when REO Speedwagon, AC/DC, Blue Öyster Cult, and Thin Lizzy all played, the group that caused the power to go out three times, and the 1984 concert that caused a traffic jam from Warwick to Cranston.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to warwicklife@gmail.com.

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

The Rocky Point saltwater pool was an Olympic-sized pool at the front of the park that was filled with water from Narragansett Bay. Hear how George watched divers make painful belly flops while he cooled off in the pool, about Olympic trials and AAU competitions at the pool, how it became a freshwater pool, and why it closed in 1985.

Read about the ⁠1936 Olympic tryouts⁠ at the pool.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to warwicklife@gmail.com.

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

Scott and George continue their conversation about Rocky Point Park. Hear about the Flume, funhouse, Laff in the Dark, and Castle of Terror/House of Horrors. Find out about the Rocky Point jail, and discover where some of Rocky Point’s rides went when the park closed.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to warwicklife@gmail.com.

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with editor George LaCross from the amusement park fan site Laff in the Dark.

George LaCross made his first visit to Rocky Point Park in 1962 and became an immediate fan. Hear Scott and George reminisce about the Paladium ballroom, Shore Dinner Hall, baseball field, petting zoo, and Rocky Point’s first carousel and Ferris Wheel.

Visit the Laff in the Dark ⁠website⁠.

Join the Rocky Point Park Remembered! ⁠Facebook⁠ group.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community.

Write to warwicklife@gmail.com.

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

As Warwick Radio Online draws to a close, the podcast gang takes a wild journey through time into a future none of us could ever imagine.

Listen to Shaking the Bushes with Elly McGuire.

Tune into to The Poe Underground with D.K. Mckenzie.

Watch The Rhode Island Wave Spotlight Series with Scott Nerney.

Sound Effects: Roller Derby - San Francisco by RTB45 -- https://freesound.org/s/193804/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Season two of Elly McGuire’s Shaking the Bushes podcast has begun. Tune in at ellymcguire.com or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Enjoy episode one, Chutzpah!, and find out what a U.S. President’s slipper, Taylor Swift, and a splinter have in common.

You never know who’s going to turn up in the stories on Elly McGuire’s podcast, Shaking The Bushes—a former US President, a wife of a Beatle, a “Survivor”…to name just a few—as she shares humorous and often unpredictable autobiographical anecdotes and social commentary about living parallel lives in her “cozy” apartment in Manhattan and her childhood home in Rhode Island.

What you think might be so different from residing in both the biggest city in the world and in the smallest state in the union, can actually turn out to be very much the same.

Author and adventurist Elly McGuire has traveled the world, rubbed shoulders with celebrated people, and is now “shaking the bushes” of her colorful past.