About Karen R. Ellsworth

“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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While Carolyn Richard was a member of the Richmond Town Council, she was approached by a resident who complained about the name of the street where she lived—Smallpox Trail. Carolyn …
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European immigrants were not the only people who filled the Midwest with farms. Plenty of Rhode Islanders went west, too.

By the late 1700s, the population in Rhode Island, Massachusetts …
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On the morning of January 20, 1887, Isabelle Bourne, who lived in the village of Greene in Coventry, told the police that her husband, Ansel, a clergyman, had been missing …
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Napoleon Bonaparte said that history is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. William Jackson was murdered in South Kingstown in 1751, and Thomas Carter …
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