Rhode Island
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10.1K1Six Historic Places Connected to Illicit Love Affairs
Illicit love affairs are as much a part of history as are war and elections, and the New England Historical Society doesn’t...
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33.5K4Maurice Lerner, the Brookline Mobster Hired To Kill Fidel Castro
Maurice Lerner grew up in Brookline, Mass., and as a young man he was astute, polite and athletic. His athletic prowess landed...
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25.8K3Six Historic New England Football Fields
Football, once called the Boston Game, was played on many historic New England football fields since the 19th century. An organized college...
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5.6KA Scold’s Cure, Carrion Hunters and Going to Peg Trantum’s – Speaking of Death in Colonial Times
In colonial times, there was the King’s English, and then there was the slang, which was much more fun and colorful. And...
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12.2K4The Six Oldest Courthouses in New England
Some of the oldest courthouses in New England have had revolutionaries argue cases in them. Patriots, heroes and traitors walked within their...
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17.4K4Pasta la Vista – F.P. Ventrone Sparks the Providence Macaroni Riots
The summer of 1914 was a flash-point for the Italian immigrant families living in Providence, R.I. Squeezed on one side by an...
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