Excellence in Medicine: The Margaret Edward Anderson Hospital
Today, if you are injured or need urgent medical care, the state-of-the-art Westerly Hospital is the only emergency room in town, however, this was not [...]
Today, if you are injured or need urgent medical care, the state-of-the-art Westerly Hospital is the only emergency room in town, however, this was not [...]
Where is Westerly headed? To get a better understanding of that, let's look at the history of where we've been and how we got there, [...]
Read Part 1 first! In the days before automobiles were in every home, getting to and from Pleasant View could be quite a struggle. That [...]
In any discussion about the history and settlement of Westerly, the most obvious starting point is the Misquamicut Purchase of 1661. With the purchase of [...]
Although they have always composed a relatively small portion of the town’s overall population, the Jewish citizens of Westerly have played a substantial role in [...]
If he hadn’t died from smallpox three months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he would have been one of our nation’s founding [...]
Since the 1860s, baseball has been played on fields across the country, making it one of the most popular sports in our nation’s history. Despite [...]
In part 1 of the history of Stonington Borough, I followed how sealing was the beginning of the China trade and how the money generated [...]
“We will offer all kinds of music, from birth to earth, with a focus on jazz, classical, funk, rock, and the blues,” says Mark. The [...]
The following is part nine in Westerly Life’s “Behind the Murals” series discussing the history behind all of the recently created murals throughout downtown Westerly [...]
Read Part 1 first. After the British withdrawal from Philadelphia in the spring of 1778, George Washington appointed Benedict Arnold the military commander of the [...]
The following is part two of Westerly Life’s “Behind the Murals” series exploring the history behind each of the recently created murals throughout downtown Westerly [...]