Get to know Dave

Growing up commercially lobstering with his dad, uncle, and brothers, Dave spent no less than fourteen summers working off the coast of Block Island. For five winters after college he packaged squid and caught scallops and ground fish with his brother Chris on the boat Karen Elizabeth. In 2002, Dave started Salt Pond Oyster Company and has been growing oysters ever since. In 2012 he bought a truck, called it the Shuckin’ Truck, and has been selling his oysters and family’s catch, preparing unique and creative seafood dishes such as scallop rolls, lobster tacos and fish tacos, along with fresh salt pond oysters and littlenecks. Here’s looking forward to seeing you at OysterFest!

Get to know Frank

Native to the great state of Rhode Island, Frank is an editorial photographer and designer. By day he shoots, does production, and web work at the Alumni Magazine at Brown, also for various publications and organizations throughout RI. Frank has an undying love for the city of Providence and the state as a whole, likes the color blue, live music, old Volvos, and traveling. He is seriously considering getting a dog, and of course, loves oysters.

Get to know Don

Don is an award-winning designer with over 20 years of design and prototype experience since leaving the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1991. He has worked with such clients as Braun and Gillette, Lockheed Martin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Chessawonock Island Oyster Company, Eaton Corporation, EAW and contractors such as Haliburton and the United States
Department of Defense.

He has served as an adjunct faculty member at RISD’s Industrial Design department, and currently serves on the faculty of New England Institute of Technology’s (NEIT) Engineering department.

In 1992, Don founded Providence Machine and Tool Works with a focus on product development and design, fabrication and prototyping. In 2010, he founded WIT Design with interest in combining art and industry.

He is presently developing rugged touch screen computers that have been deployed in law enforcement vehicles including North Providence Police Department and the New York State Police.

Don is also an avid fisherman and lover of Narragansett Bay.