What and Why RI: It's filled in now, but in its prime Rocky Point pool hosted Olympians. Here's the story. A Rhode Island Red chicken — the official state bird — roams a backyard in Middletown.

Initially believing the noise to be coming from her pool, police said the woman went out into her backyard to investigate. Once outside, she saw the drone hovering next to her bathroom window.

In the 1880s Wilbour was running a 200-acre farm with 3,000 to 4,000 chickens, Wilbour’s grandson David Patten wrote in a 1954 pamphlet. What and Why RI: Rhode Island has a lot of villages, and ...