They came from everywhere, mostly as immigrant orphans who lived through the modern world's first ghastly genocide, convinced they were the very few left who must save their heritage. "Mitchnapert" tells how Armenian churches, schools and organizations became established in Rhode Island and about the most difficult political crisis that split the community for fifty years, caused by the assassination of an Archbishop in another state. "Mitchnapert" follows the Armenians as they assimilate into the American mainstream, providing the reader a lucid and rare historical examination of what...
They came from everywhere, mostly as immigrant orphans who lived through the modern world's first ghastly genocide, convinced they were the very few l...
An incredible story of men against the sea and the U.S. Life Saving Service of the 19th century. Dramatic events culled from documented reports describe the forgotten service that saved lives from ships foundering on Rhode Island's shores. Included are synopsis of Rhode Island's worse marine disasters as the passenger steamer SS Larchmont in the dead of winter was holed and sunk by the schooner Harry Knowlton with a loss of 145 lives, to the rumored purposeful shipwrecker's on Block Island who decoyed wayward vessels to their doom to salvage wreckage and cargo. Dozens of shipwrecks and...
An incredible story of men against the sea and the U.S. Life Saving Service of the 19th century. Dramatic events culled from documented reports descri...
