by Mark Thompson | Jun 3, 2020 | Features, General Interest, Government, History, Uncategorized
Nearly 40 years ago, local notables Robert Allen Greene, Steve Greene and Elmer Palmer helped to recreate the Bourbonnais Regiment that fought the final battle of the American Revolution. A pair of them posed at the foot of the Appomattox memorial in Alexandria,...
by egnews | May 24, 2020 | History
Above, from left: James S. Tingley, Col. James W. Tingley, Jr., and Laura Waite (now Sullivan), Memorial Day 1964. By Laura Sullivan Though I grew up in Edgewood, we always came to East Greenwich to mark Memorial Day, where both my mother and uncle were born and...
by Mark Thompson | May 21, 2020 | Events, General Interest, Good News, History
Above: The Kentish Guards atop a Middle Road hill on a Memorial Day more than a half-century ago. An afternoon more than a half-century ago left its mark By Mark Thompson My brothers and I were thunderstruck. Soldiers were climbing up a hill from Middle Road, next to...
by Alan Clarke | May 14, 2020 | History, Real Estate
Above: A picture of The Grange by artist Emily G. (Greene) Welling. Courtesy of George H. Waterman III. By Alan Clarke Located on the Greene’s River in Potowomut is a beautiful old estate called The Grange. The Grange is one of three original homes of the Greene...
by Alan Clarke | Apr 30, 2020 | General Interest, History
Above: Volunteers clean up a long neglected and vandalized cemetery previously hidden in the woods amid a new section of houses. It’s easy to understand why someone new to the area finds these places hard to look at. Historical cemeteries can, however, add historical...
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...
