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In the run up to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, we will hear much about the Founding Fathers. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, however, was the first American community that …
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Visitors to Newport are sometimes informed that the luxurious hotel at 41 Mary Street in Newport, called The Vanderbilt, was originally built by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt as a magnificent mansion …
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[Note from the Editor: Last week’s article consisted of three short stories by Ed Iannuccilli from his childhood growing up in the 1940s in Providence on Wealth Avenue, near Academy …
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Life holds a knapsack full of memories—all of them significant; many, if not most, are worth recording. Growing up in a neighborhood of family and friends was a journey to …
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I was just 18 years old, a college freshman, on May 4, 1970, when National Guardsmen in Ohio opened fire and killed four student protestors at Kent State University. Fifty …
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There were five or six duels fought in General Rochambeau’s army, three of them in Newport, Rhode Island in 1780 and 1781. Frenchmen can be irascible and easily offended, so …
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My fascination with antique glass bottles began when I was around ten years old. I was visiting a neighbor’s house that was built near an …
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“We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.” – Samuel McChord Crothers

On October 7, 2017, the Hopkinton Land …
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In the early days of the abolition movement in the United States, by necessity, abolitionist work had to come primarily from white people because, before the American Revolution, most black …
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While Massachusetts and Connecticut by the early 1800s had instituted reforms reducing the severity of corporal punishment, Rhode Island had not. Consider the crime of perjury before a court. According …
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