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20.0K26 Places That Became a Summer White House
The summer White House has featured in presidential life since John Adams returned to Quincy, Mass., to get away from the muggy...
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9.3K1From Africa to Newport and Back – Musician Occramer Marycoo’s Incredible Journey
Occramer Marycoo became America’s first black professional musician in 1764, but it wasn’t by choice. For more than 60 years Marycoo wanted...
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15.6K5Carl Rettich, The RI Mobster Who Invented Cement Shoes
When Carl Rettich moved to a seaside mansion on Warwick Neck in Warwick, R.I., people thought he was a genteel lawyer named...
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12.4K16 Religious Revival Camps
Tens of thousands of New Englanders went to religious revival camps in the summer to pray, preach and sing during the 19th...
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7.9K1The Top Secret Reeducation Camp in RI During World War II
Some of Germany’s finest writers and artists churned out an anti-Nazi newspaper at a secret reeducation camp in Narragansett, R.I., from February...
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24.3K16Six Prohibition Speakeasies You Can Still Visit
When the 18th Amendment to the Constitution took effect on January 17, 1920, New England’s taverns suddenly became speakeasies. Law enforcement couldn’t...
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