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This is a short history of modern pandemics, starting with the Great Influenza of 1918, and ending with the modern coronaviruses, SARs, MERs and COVID-19. Most of the last part …
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In his first major foot race, the Boston Marathon in 1935, at the age of twenty, Ellison “Tarzan” Brown came out of nowhere. He was a poor Narragansett Indian from …
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A book review: Kid Number One: Alan Hassenfeld and Hasbro, by G. Wayne Miller (Pawtucket, RI: Stillwater River Publications, 2019).

It is arguably Rhode Island’s biggest economic success story since …
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Woonsocket’s famed politician, Lieutenant Governor and Mayor Felix A. Toupin, and West Warwick’s prominent Judge Alberic Archambault, were primarily responsible for the transition of the Franco-American vote in Rhode Island …
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My book, Kidnapping the Enemy: The Special Operations to Capture Generals Charles Lee & Richard Prescott (Westholme, 2017), focused on the stunning captures of two major generals who fought on …
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With the firing on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Rhode Islanders eagerly answered the call to arms. From Westerly to Woonsocket, and from Wallum Lake to Little Compton, the …
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Point Judith is a small point of land located about midway between the eastern and western borders of the state. To the east and north of the point the waters …
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The 17th century brought enormous changes to the Western Hemisphere, commonly called the Americas. European explorers and settlers claimed land in North and South America for economic, sovereignty, political or …
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I am crazy about pontoons. Perhaps you could tell that from the chapter on pontoons in my recent book (with co-authors Norm Desmarais and Varoujan Karentz), Untold Stories from World …
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These three ministers helped shape colonial and revolutionary Rhode Island. The first was the minister of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Reverence Dr. Ezra Stiles. The second was …
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