Rhode Island
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8.6K2The Mysterious Disappearance of Danny Walsh, the Last Irish Gangster in Rhode Island
Before the Italian-American community (much to the chagrin of many) was branded as the face of organized crime, Irish Americans had their...
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2.9KIn 1770 Silversmith Samuel Casey Narrowly Escaped the Gallows
Samuel Casey was a talented, well-respected silversmith in Kingstown, R.I in the mid-1700s. Casey made teapots, tankards, and porringers as well as...
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4.4K2You Don’t Have To Be Italian To Love RI Chicken Family Style
Chicken family style evolved in Northern Rhode Island during the Great Depression, and even today people will drive for miles and wait...
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3.9KGeorge Berkeley, World-Famous Philosopher, Moves to RI in 1729
Bishop George Berkeley was a world famous Anglo-Irish philosopher by the time he stepped onto dry land in Newport, R.I., on Jan. 23, 1729....
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3.6KPeace Goes to War In 1861: Isaac Peace Rodman at Antietam
Six generals died in the Civil War Battle of Antietam. Perhaps the least likely military leader in the group was Isaac Peace...
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4.4K2Fire, Fury, Murder and More – Tales from the Roger Mowry Tavern
Roger Mowry started life in England and came to Boston in 1631 at about the age of 20. He moved around a...
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4.5K3Several Dreadful Stroaks – The Demons of Jeremiah Meacham
On the night of March 22, 1715, Jeremiah Meacham was troubled - as usual. He had secluded himself on the second story...
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4.8KDr. T. Thatcher Graves and The Rhode Island Mail Order Murder
In September of 1893, Rhode Island's Dr. T. Thatcher Graves poisoned himself with morphine. He said he was driven to it by...
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6.5K2The Mysterious 1644 Portrait of Roger Williams
A portrait of Roger Williams is easy to sketch in words: Baptist minister banished from Massachusetts, founding father of Rhode Island and...
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5.6K2How Percy Marks Got Fired from Brown for Exposing the Depravities of the Ivy League
In 1924, an obscure Brown University English instructor named Percy Marks rocketed to fame with his first novel, The Plastic Age, an...
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