by Elizabeth McNamara | Mar 13, 2020 | History
By Alan F. Clarke Much in the news this week is the coronavirus that’s sweeping around the world and across this country. Officially it’s COVID-19 but the other name stuck before the CDC could name it. I am an old coot and I have memories older than most have these...
by Rachel Peirce | Mar 6, 2020 | General Interest, History
The month of March is Women’s History Month and so we are reprinting a couple of articles about EG’s own women’s history by Rachel Peirce that first appeared in the East Greenwich Historic Preservation Society’s newsletter. This is the first one. Look for the second...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Feb 27, 2020 | General Interest, Good News, Government, History
Above: Bill McClintick takes possession of EG’s Boston Post Cane replica at the Town Council meeting Feb. 24. By Elizabeth F. McNamara Bill McClintick may be 100 years old but that doesn’t mean he needs a cane to get around. Still, he accepted the...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Feb 17, 2020 | General Interest, Good News, History, Schools, Sports
The East Greenwich Athletic Hall of Fame will be inducting six new honorees at its annual banquet on May 3. The event at 2 p.m. will be held at the Quonset “O” Club, 200 Lt. James Brown Road in North Kingstown. Tickets for the event are $35 and prospective...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Feb 9, 2020 | Events, History, News
The Varnum Armory played host earlier this month to the Rhode Island chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, who recreated a moment in history. In October 1777, a letter from then-Gen. George Washington was delivered to Col. James Varnum (THAT Varnum, of...
by Elizabeth McNamara | Nov 20, 2019 | Business, General Interest, Government, History
By Elizabeth F. McNamara In 1960, Martha McPartland published “The History of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1677-1960,” and her very opening paragraph echoed sentiments expressed nearly 60 years later at East Greenwich Today & Tomorrow, a forum put on by East...
