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Judith Sternberg Newman, Holocaust Survivor, Builds a New Life in Richmond
When I was about fourteen years old, sifting through the world history section at the Kingston Free Library, I came across a book by Judith Sternberg Newman, who then …
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8 years ago
The World War II Listening Post at Chopmist Hill in Scituate
They say that truth is stranger than fiction. This story seems to bear that out.
In 1940 with World War II approaching, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sent …
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8 years ago
Growing Up at Spindrift on Narragansett Bay in the 1930s and through World War II
After scouring the coast of New England, my father found a shingled dwelling in Saunderstown, Rhode Island, perched high above the rocks on the west bank of Narragansett Bay. It …
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8 years ago
Elisabeth Sheldon: Her Summers of 1944 and 1945 on Narragansett Bay
[This article appears as a chapter in the newly-released book by three smallstatebighistory authors, titled Untold Stories from World War II Rhode Island (History Press, 2019)]
Elisabeth Kellog Sheldon …
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