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The Theaters of Providence Part 2 – The Modern Era
Pleasure the means, the end virtue.[1]
Once upon a time, and in living memory, at least for some of us, there were a number of movie houses in the downtown …
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The Theaters of Providence, Part 1 – The Early Years
Pleasure the means, the end virtue.[1]
The theater in Providence has a long and rich history. Fledging attempts to establish a theatre in Providence go back to the late eighteenth …
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“As Near to Flying as One Gets Outside a Circus”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Providence Ladies’ Sanitary Gymnasium, 1881-1884
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“I could easily have been an acrobat”: thus wrote the famous American feminist author in her autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.[1] The author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was recalling …
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