I had a friend come give a talk at URI a couple of weeks ago, who works on the nuclear West. An art professor was there and asked if we had visited the site of Rhode Island's nuclear fatality. I had never even heard of...
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This is the grave of T.F. Green. Born in 1867 in Providence, Rhode Island, Theodore Francis Green grew up pretty well off. His father was a prominent lawyer. Green went.
This one was kind of fun for me. It's a compilation of early film footage from Providence in the 1910s and 1920 that the Rhode Island Historical Society stitched together..
This is the grave of Stephen Hopkins. Born in 1707 in Providence, Rhode Island, Hopkins was part of the elite of that colony. His family had settled there early and had played leading roles in it from the Roger Williams days. They lived in what...
This 1947 travel film about Rhode Island is....something. Kinda boring. Kinda interesting for the footage. Kinda offensive in the statement that Rhode Island has no history before white settlement. Kinda.
It's a landmark number in the film series. Plus I've never really paid attention to Rhode Island in this thing. So let's check out this 1921 urban booster film of.
This is the grave of Thomas Dorr. Born in 1805 in Providence, Dorr grew up in a wealthy family of the Industrial Revolution. His father was a big time textile manufacturer and had his own mill town. So Dorr had all the luxuries, for the...
Rhode Island's incompetence in administering the vaccine is astounding and suggestive of larger problems with technocratic centrism. The above quote comes from this story. See, Rhode Island is merely last.
At this time of fighting police violence and reckoning with our racist past, it's worth noting that said past is not about the South, not exclusively nor primarily. It's about.
The other day, I noted how the argument that the environmentalists cost jobs in the Pacific Northwest timber industry was completely bogus. But it's not as if workers themselves don't believe it. And they aren't going to back down on that either because it provides...
Sure, interest rates are low. But we are about to enter into a horrifying housing crisis and millions of people lack work. In New England, it is likely to be.
As much as I dislike the governance of Gina Raimondo, Rhode Island's Wall Street Democratic governor, I think she has done a very good job on COVID-19. Some of this.