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Photo by Brian Smith. Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award winning documentary producer, and a long-time history enthusiast. With a take on history that is both humorous and illuminating, he has appeared on. CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, NPR and Fox News. Rick's most recent documentary film, The Ghost Army. Premiered nationally on PBS in 2013. It has been honored with a CINE Golden Eagle and audience awards at several film festivals. Called it "entrancing," while the. Said of the ...

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Choosing Providence: Alexander F. Adie House, Part 2

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014. Alexander F. Adie House, Part 2. In my last post, I discussed the demolition of the Alexander F. Adie House on Federal Hill, as well as the life of its builder. Today's post is about Angelina and Angelo Lucchetti; their story touches the house much later. Fontana Liri, Italy. Angelo was born in 1886 in Fontana Liri, Italy, a small town in the mountains between Rome and Naples, best known as the birthplace of Marcello Mastroianni. In November, 1919, Angelo married Giovannina ...

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Choosing Providence: June 2013

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Monday, June 10, 2013. The beautiful Brickyard Pond, in Barrington, RI, is home to rainbow, lake, and brown trout, pickerel and largemouth bass, canvasback and ring-necked ducks, mute swans, and nesting osprey. Its 102 acres are traversed by canoes and kayaks, and its shores traced by runners, walkers, and bikers on the East Bay Bike Path. In Groton, Connecticut, a project which took him four years.). To harvest the clay, workers used picks and shovels to dig clay by hand from holes 12-14 feet in diamete...

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Choosing Providence: October 2014

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Wednesday, October 8, 2014. On Broadway: Barnaby Castle Update. This past weekend, the WBNA (West Broadway Neighborhood Association) hosted a house tour, and we had the opportunity to see the interiors of a number of homes of interest, including Barnaby Castle. Several people who read my previous post. On the Barnaby Castle, and its interesting history, inquired about the house, and about what's happening with the renovation, so here's an update. Below are some first floor photos. Links to this post.

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Photo by Brian Smith. Rick Beyer is a best-selling author, an award winning documentary producer, and a long-time history enthusiast. With a take on history that is both humorous and illuminating, he has appeared on. CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, NPR and Fox News. Rick's most recent documentary film, The Ghost Army. Premiered nationally on PBS in 2013. It has been honored with a CINE Golden Eagle and audience awards at several film festivals. Called it "entrancing," while the. Said of the ...

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Choosing Providence: April 2012

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Monday, April 30, 2012. Cherry and Webb, Gladdings, and Shepard. I walked by this alley off Westminster Street in Providence last week, and spied "The Tri-Store Bridge". Seeing these logos brought me back to my childhood, and shopping in these large and well-known department stores with my mother (with a snack or lunch- maybe chicken croquettes! At Shepard's Tea Room). Cherry and Webb was a Massachusetts chain, founded in 1888, that went bankrupt in 2000. Illustration Credits and References. Providence P...

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Choosing Providence: January 2014

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014. Sarah and Edgar at the Athenaeum. One of the most beautiful early 19th century buildings in Providence is the Athenaeum, a membership library built in 1838 in the Greek Revival Style. It was within its dark and comforting confines that Sarah Helen Whitman, a Providence poet and essayist, found solace from her difficult home life, and was able to write and think in peace. Sarah Helen Whitman House, 88 Benefit Street. Portrait of Whitman by C. G. Thompson, 1838. By all accounts, ...

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Choosing Providence: September 2014

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Tuesday, September 2, 2014. ALCO, UNFI, and the Woonasquatucket River. The beautifully landscape riverfront near the old ALCO factory. I was particularly looking to see how complete the proposed Woonasquatucket River Greenway. To see a map of existing and proposed trail segments. In the course of our investigation, we came upon the old American Locomotive Company (ALCO). Complex, now home to United Natural Foods (UNFI). The ALCO neon sign. This led us to a lovely riverside walk, and a subsequent investig...

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Choosing Providence: December 2013

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Friday, December 6, 2013. Gorham Silver, Part 7: It's a Wrap. As mentioned in Part 6 of this series, Gorham reached its zenith of accomplishment in the years when Edward Holbrook served as president and William C. Codman as chief designer. Codman retired in 1914, and Holbrook died in 1919, bringing this Golden Age to a conclusion. Recently, a style so called "Modern" has been introduced to the public, but it does not appear to have made much headway. . . . If we see elements of the Greek,...Codman stayed...