About Brian L. Wallin

Brian L. Wallin is a graduate of Stonehill College and earned his master’s degree from American International College. He spent the first twenty years of his career as a radio and television news reporter, anchor and producer in New England, including as a contributor to the NBC, CBS and ABC networks. He broadcast the America’s Cup yacht races between 1967 and 1983 for national and international news organizations. He has served as an adjunct professor at Providence College and Salve Regina University and is currently on the faculty of the University of Rhode Island's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. In 1984, he turned to health care management, holding senior leadership positions at health care systems in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He retired in 2009 as Vice President of Kent Hospital in Warwick, RI. He is a member of the Varnum Continentals historic militia in East Greenwich, a docent at the United States Naval War College Museum in Newport, and a consulting historian to the Narragansett Historical Society. Brian narrates the Rhode Island Fast Ferry Bay/Lighthouse Cruises and is also a member of the American Lighthouse Foundation and the United States Lighthouse Society. He continues to do commercial voice-overs and documentary narrations. He is a frequent lecturer to audiences across the state on Rhode Island history. He writes for specialty publications and is a contributing author to the Online Review of Rhode Island History at www.smallstatebighistory.com. Brian is also the co-author of World War Two Rhode Island, a book about the war’s impact on the Ocean State, published by the History Press.