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CHAPTER THIRTEEN – THREE STRIKES FOR STATE HISTORY AND HERITAGE             The following essay, published in the Providence Journal in 2017, was yet another futile attempt to gain state support…

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN – TAKING DOWN THE INDEPENDENT MAN             In 2016 and 2017, a temporary craze swept the nation that advocated the destruction of statutes, monuments, and memorials…

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CHAPTER FOURTEEN – SQUANDERING RHODE ISLAND’S MARITIME HERITAGE             Like the preceding essay, this January, 2018 Providence Journal commentary has a similar theme. It is a lament for…

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SAVE OUR MILLS             It is more than tragic that less than four years after I published the following essay as a Providence…

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Rhode Island’s Lost Ships This essay appeared as a Providence Journal commentary on August 9, 2008, in the midst of another summer season during…

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RHODE ISLAND’S IRISH FAMINE MEMORIAL: A TRIBUTE TO THE SURVIVORS             In the autumn of 1995 Anne Burns arranged for a memorial Mass to be celebrated at the Cathedral of…

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN – GEORGE WASHINGTON, AMERICAN CATHOLICS AND RHODE ISLAND JEWS             This essay appeared in both the Providence Journal and The Newport Daily News in March, 2017 after it was…

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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR – HERITAGE HARBOR: PAST and FUTURE PLANS             My long-time friend and historical colleague Albert T. Klyberg and I collaborated in writing the following synopsis of our…

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN – LABORATORY FOR THE LIVELY EXPERIMENT             The year 2013 marked the 350th anniversary of Rhode Island’s Royal Charter of 1663.  Governor Lincoln Chafee took the…

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CHAPTER TWELVE – CONSTITUTION DAY 2013: THE CULMINATION OF THE RATIFICATION PROCESS             These introductory remarks were made before the Rhode Island Supreme Court for the 2013 observance of Constitution Day.  Locally,…

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CHAPTER THREE – JULY 19, THE REAL RHODE ISLAND INDEPENDENCE DAY             From 1974 to mid-1977 when I served as volunteer chairman of the Rhode Island commission to celebrate American independence…

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CHAPTER EIGHT – BRISTOL, BROWNELL, AND THE GASPEE             In June 2019 I made a presidential discretionary grant of $2,000 from the Heritage Harbor Foundation to the Bristol…

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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE – AL KLYBERG: PRINCIPAL PROMOTER OF RHODE ISLAND HISTORY             Al Klyberg’s sudden death in January, 2017 brought to an end a friendship and historical collaboration I had shared…

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STATEHOOD: BRISTOL LED THE WAY!             The highest civic honor that can be conferred upon a resident of Bristol is the position of chief marshal…

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POKANOKET Dear Editor:     In 2007 my husband and I bought the so-called King Philip House on Bristol’s Mount Hope, the…

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THE IRISH IN RHODE ISLAND: THE PROTESTANT PIONEERS      The Irish presence in Rhode Island dates from the late 1630s. Most early Irish Rhode Islanders were Protestants-mainly…

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