Every email I sent got the brisk bounceback message "Out Of Office Reply," and every office phone that answered was a voice mail message to the effect that "I will be out of the office until Monday, July 21."
It wasn't a day to do any kind of business, and most people were smart enough to know it.
Here's what some of them were doing while you were working!
Kayaking on Ninigret Pond in Charlestown.
Eating fried clams at Champlin's in Galilee.
Jumping from a rope swing into the Pawcatuck River in Westerly.
After 6, even the lifeguards were off, above at East Beach in Charlestown.