Photo slide shows

Jeff Howe of Barrington has owned this 1932 five-window Ford -- a Deuce coupe -- since 1958.

A race between a steam engine car and a gasoline car at Narragansett race track in Cranston. 1916. Slideshow.

Rosalie Sorrels, 73, who played at the Newport festival 40 years ago, opened the second stage with country blues.

The 2007 Shelby Mustang Funny Car driven by Bob Tasca III makes 3,500 hp and can get to 210 mph in 3.7 seconds. This shot shows the lightweight body propped up.

Bob Faria of Little Compton in his 1949 MG TC Midget, one of only 494 TCs exported from England.

The '61 Impala convertible owned by Kent Shechtman of North Kingstown has a 348-cubic-inch V8; seat belts and air conditioning have been added.

Elena Bonitati, right, lifts and twirls an umbrella as part of a free performance of the JUMP! dance company yesterday at the Bank of America Skating Center in Providence.

Dan Manuepelli inherited his '38 Buick roadster from his father.

Journal photographer Kris Craig holds his camera underwater to photograph these children cooling off on a very hot August afternoon.

The wooden dashboard inside this 1964 Morgan is a work of art.

Sisters Desiree Oliver, 10, and Alyssa Pacheco, 11, both of New Bedford, show their colors during yesterday's Fourth of July parade in Bristol.

Lt. Sheryl Watson, of Providence, gets the time from her daughter Hamilton, 7, and her new watch, after the ceremony.

Starter Josh Beckett led the Sox to a 10-2 win over Pedro Martinez and the Mets Wednesday night.

Angela Perruzzi and Pat McNally of Warren, in the blue Mini Cooper above, and nine other cars from the Ocean State Mini Club were among nearly 200 climbing Mount Washington June 17 during the fourth annual "Minis On Top" rally.

Lori Esposito hugs her husband, Sgt. John Esposito of Cranston, of the 861st Engineer Company of the Rhode Island National Guard, upon his return yesterday from a 17-month deployment - 12 months in Iraq.

Cliff Walk, the 3 1/2-mile public path that rims the rugged coast past the Gilded Age mansions from Memorial Boulevard to Ocean Avenue.

Boats in the cruiser division head out to open waters after crossing the start line off Castle Hill Lighthouse, Newport.

Saturday was opening day for the Providence Kickball League.

For the 2006 General Assembly legislative session, some 115 young men and women are working as pages. Shane Lee, a 19-year-old senior at Central High School, is in his second year as a Senate page.

Somerset senior Allie Dovouto signs a yearbook Tuesday for a classmate. Graduation is tonight.

Lawyers for Esteban Carpio, center, admitted he stabbed an elderly woman and killed a Providence police detective at police headquarters last year.

Peering from the first floor window of their home on Valley Street are, from left, Jocelyn Ramirez, 12, her cousin, Ashley Mendes, 2, sister JoAnne Ramirez, 11, and cousin James Carey, 9. Providence firefighters were in the neighborhood earlier advising residents to leave.

Allison Rogers, 24, of Providence, was crowned 2006 Miss Rhode Island, Saturday night at Woonsocket's Stadium Theater.

Good ol' fashion bullriding lit up the Dunkin' Donuts Center recently, and Journal photographer Gretchen Ertl was there to capture it.

Bernard Delin, of Framingham, Mass., salutes during a D-Day ceremony aboard the battleship Masssachusets.

Students in the Network Rhode Island Certified Nursing Assistant training program listen to instructor Paula Totten, RN.

There are more motorcycles out there on Rhode Island streets and highways, about four times as many as in 1992.

Loretta MacDonald, of Rehoboth, Mass., and her husband Peter, look over her new Toyota Sienna Braun Rampvan.

A Chicago Cubs ball player is at bat in a pre-season game playing live on the back of one of the seats in an SUV.

Work continues at the site of the new condominium towers being built at Waterplace Park. Josh Lusicnan, an iron worker, connects beams to the framework.

Giovanna (Gigi) DeBarros, an 8th-grader at Samuel Slater Junior High in Pawtucket, gets some advice from her art teacher Kara Doheny as she works on a pencil drawing of a face.

Jesus, played by Andrew Cabrera, drags a wooden cross around St. Edward's Church in Providence on Good Friday morning as part of the church's Good Friday observance.

Samantha Gerlach, a senior in sculpture, ties up the laces to her high-heel skates. Gerlach is the captain and coach of the school's roller derby team.

The All-State Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Chorus rehearses for a performance at Rhode Island College.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is surrounded by well-wishers and local politicans yesterday as she meets with reporters in the Providence City Hall office of Mayor David N. Cicilline.

Actor Billy Baldwin, who plays an amibitious state attorney general in the TV pilot Waterfront, enjoys the celebration at the State House.

Parades celebrating Irish heritage and culture were held last weekend in West Warwick and Newport. Sheila O'Connel, 7, of Coventry is Little Miss Ireland in West Warwick's St. Patrick's Day Parade Sunday.

Newport's St. Patrick's Day parade kicked off Saturday, March 11.

Del Sesto High School ninth-graders yesterday welcomed principal John Craig back after a student protest Wednesday succeeded in winning his reinstatement.

The search continued yesterday for the three URI students who went missing in Narragansett Bay early Monday.

Mick Mars, lead guitarist joins the three other original members of Motley Crue last night at the Dunkin Donuts Center.

Exeter-West Greenwich High School students presenting Into the Woods, a musical that intertwines a collection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales.

History buffs and militia units reenact George Washington's visit 225 years ago to the village of Little Rest, now Kingston, last Sunday.

The 2006 Providence Journal Rhode Island Statewide Spelling Bee was held yesterday at the URI Feinstein campus.

Ian Cameron, from Rocky Hill School in Warwick, competes yesterday in the Super Quiz portion of the 2006 Rhode Island Academic Decathlon held at CCRI in Warwick.

Anthony Lukasiewicz, left, of Cumberland, listens to Governor Donald Carcieri as he meets seniors at the ribbon cutting of Cumberland's revamped senior center on the Monastary Grounds.

Rogers High School students model dresses and formal wear donated by local businesses to raise money for the prom.