Rhode Island
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9.8KHow the Quahog Became a Rhode Island Icon
If you know anything about Rhode Island, you know the quahog is sacred and peculiar to America’s smallest and wateriest state. But...
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7.4KChopmist Hill, Rhode Island’s Secret Listening Post in WWII
Just before Pearl Harbor, Chopmist Hill in Scituate, R.I., was the center of the world. That’s what the Federal Communications Commission discovered...
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3.5K1Gordon Bennett, the Madcap, Scandal-Mongering Publisher Who Built the Newport Casino
Today in Britain people utter ‘Gordon Bennett’ when someone says something unbelievable, disgusting, surprising or outrageous. They probably don’t know they’re referring...
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5.9K1Six Places an Iconic Food Was Born
New England has given birth to many an iconic food. The exact birthplace, however, of such beloved treats as the fluffernutter sandwish,...
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7.0K5Nine Men’s Misery: ‘Oldest Veterans Memorial’ Honors Tortured Plymouth Colonists.
On the wooded grounds of an old monastery in Cumberland, R.I., a pile of stones stands next to a cement pillar with...
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7.1K4Four Days in May: The 1942 Rhode Island Forest Fires
On May 1, 1942, fire leveled more than 300 acres in the Limerock section of Lincoln, R.I. The source of ignition was...
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