Monthly Archives: September, 2009
Rhode Island Radio Lecture on Thursday
Despite being repeatedly and prematurely pronounced dead (at the hand of television, the internet, or whatever comes next), radio is still alive more than a hundred years after its birth. … Continue reading
22 September 2009 · Leave a Comment
Rhode Island Historical Society Awarded $99,400 Grant for Graphics Inventory Project
By Karen Eberhart, Special Collections Curator From a hand-drawn map of Block Island created in 1661 to footage of Vincent “Buddy” Cianci’s first mayoral campaign in 1974, the Rhode Island … Continue reading
14 September 2009 · Leave a Comment
“This Sanguinary Monster”*: The Pirate Gibbs, pt. 2
The recent high-profile acts of piracy in Somalia have highlighted the divide between the reality of piracy and our romanticized notions of it. But the desire to glamorize the swashbuckling … Continue reading
2 September 2009 · Leave a Comment
