History was made two times in the Rhode Island Superior court during the Milk Bottle Murder trial of 1939. Elmer Lester Leduc was a 19-year-old boy who lived with his mother Vernal and his father … more

By KELLY SULLIVAN Thirty-one-year-old Annie Senft locked arms with her 38-year-old sister Elizabeth Carpenter as they strolled the grounds of Butler Hospital for the Insane. When all eyes were off them, they quietly advanced to a waiting horse-drawn more

By KELLY SULLIVAN Elizabeth "Bessie" McKenna tied the knot with William Blake in October of 1902. Thirty years later, she learned the contract was seemingly unbreakable. Bessie was just 23 years old when she exchanged marriage vows with 25-year-old more

By KELLY SULLIVAN Places of worship have dotted Rhode Island for centuries - Presbyterian, Catholic, Universalist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Congregational, Jewish, and all manner of Baptist and Methodist. Over the centuries, most residents have fallen more

By KELLY SULLIVAN What changes a century brings! Back at the closing of 1920, the town of Cranston had a population of less than 30,000. The majority of businessmen in town were employed as store owners, milk dealers, barbers, construction workers, more

By KELLY SULLIVAN Jonathan Slocum and his wife, Ruth (Tripp), decided to leave their farm in Warwick and settle on what they hoped would be more fertile ground somewhere in Pennsylvania. They traveled by covered wagon with their 10 children and Ruth's more