Hilary Treadwell - Rhode Island is small, but not that small

After Rhode Island’s proposed "Cooler & Warmer" slogan tanked, many small-state natives threw their own catchphrases into the mix. Enter artist Hilary Treadwell, who sells a quirky T-shirt on her website, Lilhop.com. "Rhode Island: 3% bigger at low tide." Naturally, we asked Treadwell how she came up with this number. That’s what fact checkers do. She said she made it up. "I just like the number three, it’s big enough, but small enough," she said. "It’s a joke that speaks to a truth." She did look up the state’s area, and the length of its coastline and fiddled around with ...