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Podcast 356 – The Unsinkable Ida Lewis

In the second half of the 1800s, Ida Lewis became a hero and national celebrity for saving many lives in […]

In 1879, a group of flying horses was abandoned in the Watch Hill section of Westerly, Rhode Island, by a

Roger Williams is the founder of Rhode Island, but by the time of his death in 1683, most of his

In the 1920s during the height of Prohibition, Carl Rettich ran Rhode Island bootlegging with an iron fist and cement

In 1772 a group of Rhode Islanders attacked the HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Was this truly the

In the mid-1800s, Hell’s Half Acre on the New London Turnpike in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, was full of drinking,

In 1873 a fountain was erected on Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, they say is enchanted. In Episode 325

In 1842 the Dorr Rebellion caused enough of a stir that shots were fired at the now-haunted Tavern on Main