|
Celebrating women in mentorship and the importance of mentoring was the focus of the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island’s (WFRI) annual Women’s History Month discussion with U.S. Senator …
more
By RAYMOND BACCARI
|
3/28/24
|
|
Judge Francis “Frank” X. Flaherty carried a pair of huge sealed cardboard boxes into Warwick City Hall’s subterranean conference room.
Flaherty, a former Warwick Mayor and …
more
By JOHN HOWELL & RORY SCHULER
|
3/7/24
|
|
We are in the thick of the playoffs and with so many events on the table and now off the table, here are some thoughts of mine as we grind through the postseason.
First off, the wrestling state …
more
2/28/24
|
|
STORY OF THE WEEK: Back in the day, the approach of the end of February would signal the time for the Providence Newspaper Guild Follies – the bygone annual satiric sendup of the year in Rhode …
more
2/21/24
|
|
You wouldn’t imagine history could come alive in a cemetery until you talk with Pegee Malcolm.
Malcolm is chair of both the Warwick Historic Cemeteries Commission and the Rhode Island …
more
By JOHN HOWELL
|
2/8/24
|
|
20 Years Ago
2004 opened the movie season with “Meet the Fockers”, a profane comedy with few good moments, starring Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand.
The latest version of …
more
By Don Fowler
|
1/3/24
|
|
As humans and particularly as journalists, we often try to look for slivers of light in the darkest of times to insulate ourselves against the negative emotions that can result from observing and …
more
10/19/23
|
|
Dr. Stanley Carpenter from the Naval War College will deliver the first in a four-part series on the history of Great Britain from the rise of the Tudor Dynasty in 1485 to the War of 1812 at …
more
10/12/23
|
|
Growing up in LA (not that one. The real one – the Lower Arctic section of West Warwick), I instinctively knew who the “cool kids” were. They were the ones …
more
9/7/23
|
|
There were so many fire apparatus at the Crowne Plaza last week that one would have thought it was a 50 alarm fire. The good thing: there was no smoke and no fire.
But there was lots of …
more
7/19/23
|
|
By ANNILESE DEMERS
John and Joshua Maynard from Toll Gate High School placed 2nd Nationally in the Senior Group Exhibit Division on the topic of The Compromise of 1877 in the National History Day …
more
7/6/22
|
|
The Pilgrim Players staged Radium Girls by D.W. Gregory last week at the school auditorium. The two act play lasting nearly two hours is based on the true story of women laborers who were poisoned …
more
4/6/22
|
|
From time to time I am asked to visit local historical societies to help them identify artifacts in their collections. It’s always fun seeing what’s out there and learning from it. I have …
more
12/2/21
|
|
To the Editor,
On November 6, 2021 at the Radisson Hotel in Warwick, Rhode Island the launching of our books "A Mother's Blessing, Family Comes First" and "Billy And Dad" along with Books …
more
12/2/21
|
|
Charlie Laurent, a teacher at Rocky Hill Country Day School, has been named the 2021 Rhode Island History Teacher of the Year, an award presented annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the nations leading organization dedicated to
more
11/18/21
|
|
By KELLY SULLIVAN On Oct. 20, 1916, 13-year-old Dorothy Hughes told her mother she didn't feel well enough to practice the piano that day. Her mother, Florence (Gardner) Connolly, asked her what was wrong. Dorothy hadn't been acting normally for weeks.
more
11/4/21
|
|
By KELLY SULLIVAN Despite her parents' opinion of him, Eliza Howes loved Edwin Otis Dow. She was 18 and he was 21 when they got married in Maine in 1854. Two years later, their daughter Helen was born. Now the Howes began to really hammer on their
more
10/7/21
|
|
By DON FOWLER 20 years ago The Rhythm and Roots Festival was in its fourth year at Ninigret Park. Host Steve Riley introduced Donna the Buffalo, Asleep at the Wheel, Marcia Ball, Natalie McMaster and a host of great Cajun, Zydeco and roots bands. Dave
more
9/9/21
|
|
I normally talk about cool early items in my blog, but the other day one of the most amazing artifacts with just as amazing a story came along.
Chief Petty Officer Thomas J. Evans, United States …
more
By Joel Bohy Historic Arms & Militaria
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers Cranston, RI
|
8/12/21
|
|
By KELLY SULLIVAN Her aged body hunched over as she scuffed across the floor of the Rhode Island Insane Asylum in Cranston. Her youth long gone, her gift of life long extinguished, her human rights ripped away from her decades earlier. Suddenly, the
more
3/25/21
|
