There are no known contemporary likenesses of Roger Williams so we can not know for sure. But since there are also no accounts of a run-in with a deli slicer perhaps we can assume. Joking aside, the scaffolding recently erected on Pratt Street up the front of Prospect Terrace supported the father-daughter team (he’s a mason/she’s a sculptor) of Jim and Ally Lawrence. They have skillfully repaired Roger’s hands and it’s a nice story with some personal resonance for Mr. Lawrence (ProJo). Now, may I suggest it is time for some really, really painful landscaping around the Prospect Terrace side of the statue? I know they have installed a security camera and that’s good, but it still might not deter a determined, drunken ass-clown with frontal lobe issues. May I suggest rosa rugosa or barberry? Neither would be my first choice from an ornamental point of view, but a mature planting of these is certainly difficult to wade through. If all else fails, plant a hedge of Osage orange, God’s barbed wire.