A Tour of Downtown Westerly: 1962, Part I
The date is April 27, 1962, and it is a Friday afternoon in late spring, the perfect time to travel up and down the streets of Westerly. [...]
The date is April 27, 1962, and it is a Friday afternoon in late spring, the perfect time to travel up and down the streets of Westerly. [...]
When thinking of Christmas and the holiday season, it's hard not to envision beautifully decorated stores, familiar songs of the season, and despite the rise [...]
Of all the streets in Westerly, perhaps none represents the town’s history and beauty quite like Margin Street. Directly across from the Pawcatuck River lies [...]
More than 100 years ago, the town of Westerly, and all of America, faced a pandemic the likes of which had rarely been seen in [...]
When one thinks of professional wrestling as it exists today (of which this author is admittedly a large fan), it usually conjures notions of pageantry, [...]
Read Part 1 first! As the 19th-century came to a close, Rocky Point continued to be a popular destination among both Rhode Islanders and tourists [...]
When I was growing up it seemed every small town had its share of local characters. In my town, there was a man who would [...]
Read Part 1 first! At 8 p.m., the bomb ship Terror opened fire on the Borough of Stonington. The small group of men at the [...]
In the fall of 1886, a squad of boys from Westerly High School took the field to play a game of football against a local [...]
For more than 200 years the Pawcatuck and Mystic Rivers were both centers for New England’s shipbuilding industry. Many of the ships built here went [...]
The period from 1630 to 1730 is considered the golden age of piracy and Rhode Island was a major haven for buccaneers. The wars between [...]
During the great age of sail, there were many seaports along the New England coast that supported maritime industries. The Port of Gloucester in Massachusetts [...]