Month: May 2025

Many American states conduct special observances on the date that they entered the Union under our Constitution. Rhode Island does not. Is that reluctance because of embarrassment over the fact that we were the last of the 13 original states to ratify the Constitution and accept the new union? Back in the years 1987 through

As another baseball season begins, the existence of Rhode Island’s legendary baseball stadium ends. Demolition has begun on Pawtucket’s McCoy Stadium, the city’s field of dreams, but fortunately the memory of its principal promoter and namesake, Mayor Thomas P. McCoy, will live on. The Rhode Island Publications Society has just released a detailed and definitive