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

STORY OF THE WEEK: In 1997, when Jack Reed first joined the U.S. Senate, the Cold War had ended and 9/11 had not yet happened. A quarter-century later, the world is a very different place, with a … more

One of the Union’s Civil War heroes who defended Culp’s Hill during the Battle of Gettysburg  from a far larger Confederate force, General George Sears Greene, will visit his tomb … more

By KELLY SULLIVAN William Henry Sefton was only 2 years old when his family left Manchester, England and made the eight-day journey to America aboard the Ivernia. He docked in Boston with his father, William Henry Sr., and his mother, Amy (Hughes). They more