In the early 2000s, artist Michael Townsend spotted an unused corridor inside a Rhode Island mall. Townsend and other artist friends moved into the space as a protest of the city's gentrification.
Dozens of customers pass through the halls of the Upper Valley Mall every day, but few have ever met the man who helped build it and spent the next 42 years of his life maintaining it. Ben Lozier, 64, ...