During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
In 1789, Ephraim Kirby, Jebediah Strong, David Buel and more than 100 of their neighbors decided to swear off strong drink. They...
In July of 1911, Hiram Bingham raced to climb to the top of South America’s tallest mountain before a 60-year-old schoolteacher named...
In 1939, the greatest submarine rescue in history was undertaken off the coast of Portsmouth, N.H. This is the second part of...
It’s not exactly clear when the first horse officially called a Narragansett Pacer appeared in Rhode Island, though it was likely in...
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...