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Dr. Vincent Turco was a world-renowned orthopedic surgeon and specialist in clubfoot. The son of Italian immigrants, he was born in Newark, New Jersey, on Sep. 10, 1916. The family moved to Westerly, Rhode Island when he was six, and he attended public schools in the area. In 1937, he graduated from the University of
More than anyone, Samuel Slater pioneered the making of modern Rhode Island. This so-called Father of the Factory System was the catalyst for the economic transformation that gave Rhode Island its salient characteristic – an industrial order that dominated the state’s economy from the early nineteenth century until the dawn of the present postindustrial era.