Progress Report: Victory Day; Narragansetts; Paul Ryan
Camp Cronin in Narragansett, just southwest of the Point Judith Lighthouse. (Photo by Bob Plain) Happy Victory Day, Rhode Island. We make our case to change the holiday’s name here. And here’s another...
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Mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. It’s great that Rhode Island celebrates a late-summer day off but not-so-great that we chalk it up to winning the war in the Pacific. Every year I engage in this fool’s...
View ArticleReflections on peace, Hiroshima and Victory Day
Today is a state holiday in Rhode Island. It’s a day some of us have off and some of us don’t, depending on whether or not we work in Boston, or at some retail job, or for an instate union or...
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