Anticipating tonight's season finale of "Lost" inspired a little Google play: When you Google "Lost Rhode Island," the first listing chronicles the demise of four Ocean State ski areas. That means Little Rhody, a state with no mountains, once had five places to go downhill skiing. The only one left is Yawgoo Valley, but at one time Rhode Island also counted Diamond Hill, Neutaconkanut Hill, Pine Top and Ski Valley as slope-worthy, a ski belt that stretched from Cumberland through Providence/Johnston and into Escoheag and Exeter. (In typical "Only in Rhode Island" fashion, Ski Valley and Diamond Hill shared one side of the same Cumberland hill, even though they were two separate ski operations.)
What does this have to do with "Lost?" Nothing. In fact, I'm hard-pressed as a weekly "Lost" watcher to think of any time the TV show made reference to Rhode Island culture (except remotely as part of the Jack-is-a-Red-Sox-fan-who-still-can't-believe-they-won-the-World-Series running gag). In that way, "Lost" has nothing on the cool years of "The X-Files" (early-to-mid Mulder), when one episode was set in Chepachet, another featured flashbacks to Mulder's childhood summer cottage in Quonochontaug and a later show mentioned that his mom was in a Providence hospital.
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