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Trusted To His Duty Like a Man: A Veteran’s Letter, From the Desk of Dr. Ladd

Trusted To His Duty Like a Man: A Veteran’s Letter, From the Desk of Dr. Ladd

William Henry Miller was one of just thirty-three inmates committed to the Rhode Island School for the Feeble-Minded in Exeter.
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Jason Carpenter
The Train Unloads Its Sorrows: Scenes from Rhode Island’s Dark Days of Social Welfare

The Train Unloads Its Sorrows: Scenes from Rhode Island’s Dark Days of Social Welfare

The treatment of the insane, the prisoners, the feeble-minded and the poor in Rhode Island, in those dark days, was singularly backward.
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A Fiendish Murder: The Rhode Island Cold Case You Never Heard Of

A Fiendish Murder: The Rhode Island Cold Case You Never Heard Of

Whatever really happened to Rita Bouchard one February morning in 1947 is a story that has very likely been taken to the grave.
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Charities and Corrections: Life at the State Institutions Exhibit

Charities and Corrections: Life at the State Institutions Exhibit

A fascinating foray into the history of Rhode Island’s public hospitals and institutions
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Jason Carpenter
Cemetery Tripping in Massachusetts and Rhode Island

Cemetery Tripping in Massachusetts and Rhode Island

In a tangled grove of trees just barely visible above the detritus of the forest floor, rusting iron stakes extend as far as the eye can…
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The Fall of an Icon, the End of an Era

The Fall of an Icon, the End of an Era

History is not made of brick and mortar, after all, and will not be so easily forgotten.
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Jason Carpenter
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