About Helen Farrell Allen

Helen Farrell Allen graduated from Vassar College and worked as an editorial assistant at Harper & Row. Moving to Providence in 1963, and to Wakefield in 1992, she became an avid student of Rhode Island history. She is the principal of Tempus Fugit, a Rhode Island publishing and historical events firm. She has taken the primary role in recent years in reenacting Colonel George Washington’s 1756 sojourn in South Kingstown, most recently on the Colonel’s birthday. She is the author of several Rhode Island history articles and books, including George Washing-ton in Little Rest: A Commemoration Volume at the Dedication of a Marker Given by the Town of South Kingstown, Rhode Island (Wakefield, RI: Tempus Fugit, 2011) and Embers Blaze Up Afresh: Rochambeau’s Campaign in the American Revolution, Newport to Yorktown: A Lieutenant’s Diary of the American Campaigns of Rochambeau’s Army, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783 (Wakefield, RI: Tempus Fugit, 2005). Mrs. Allen is near completion of a study of the Hazard family of Peace Dale, supported in part by a National Endowment of the Humanities grant.