Rhode Island
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14.0K7The Legend of the Ghost Ship Palatine
Every winter Block Islanders can spot the ghost of the flaming ship Palatine, or so the legend goes. The tale comes from...
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13.7K1Rhode Island’s Sprague-Conkling Affair (or the 1879 Episode at Narragansett)
The Sprague-Conkling affair started on a pleasant day in August of 1879 at Narragansett Pier, a fashionable resort, in Rhode Island. The...
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63.3K32U-Boat Attacks Of World War II: 6 Months of Secret Terror in the Atlantic
On Jan. 13, 1942, German U-boat attacks officially started against merchant ships along the Eastern Seaboard of North America. From then until...
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11.0K7Samuel Gorton and his Gortonites Create a Church Among the Jack-an-Apes
By 1648, most New England leaders had it in for Samuel Gorton. In just a handful of years he had been kicked...
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8.1K9The Almanac, Indispensable Day Planner for the Busy Colonist
When John Winthrop set foot on the shores of Salem in 1630, he carried with him an out-of-date almanac that belonged to...
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27.7K12Pass the Tourtiere, C’est Le Reveillon!
For many, many years, le reveillon was the way Franco-Americans ushered in New Year’s Day in New England’s Little Canadas. The reveillon...
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