Rhode Island
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8.0KWhen New Englanders Feared a French-Canadian Immigrant Conquest
When French-Canadians came to work in New England’s textile mills in the later 19th century they sparked conspiracy theories of an immigrant...
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7.0K1John La Farge, The Artist Who Wanted To Crush Louis Comfort Tiffany
One day in the middle of the 1870s, a young glassmaker named Louis Comfort Tiffany visited John La Farge in his studio....
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5.1KSea Captains Carousing in Surinam
What happened in Surinam during the 18th century stayed in Surinam, until a painting called Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam surfaced in...
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5.8K1Miracle on Scituate Reservoir: The Pilgrim Airlines Fiery Emergency Landing
Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458, a regional commuter airline founded in 1962, left LaGuardia airport bound eventually for Boston on what should have...
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8.8KWood River Junction Was the First
Before Three Mile Island, before Chernobyl, Wood River Junction in Charlestown, R.I., had the first civilian nuclear accident resulting in the death...
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6.9KThe Story of Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner, Narragansett Bay Aviators
In 2018 the U.S. Navy commissioned the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hudner in Boston. The ship’s name pays tribute to two...
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