Above: Jake LaMotta, right, in bout against Fritzie Zivic, on Nov. 12, 1943. Source: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images (With apologies to Damon Runyon) One summer afternoon with nothing better to do I wander into the Greenwich Theatre. It is...
By Donald Tunnicliff Rice With his recent discussion of the 1896 dormitory fire and 1907 explosion, Alan Clarke has roused some interest in the old Academy buildings, so I thought people might enjoy seeing a couple of photos from two different eras. The first was...
I first met Pudgy in elementary school. To have earned that nickname he must have been a fat little baby, because he was anything but pudgy at age seven. We were the two smallest boys in the class, which is probably what attracted us to one another. And it was no...
By Donald Tunnicliff Rice When I was a kid in the ‘40s and ‘50s, Hallowe'en – as we used to spell it – was second only to Christmas as my favorite celebration of the year. And the town of East Greenwich encouraged us kids to feel that way. Things got going after...
I truly enjoy watching the PBS show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One thing I particularly like are the historical surprises that pop up for nearly every guest, not all of them well-received. Finding my own roots was never a particular interest of...
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