Commemorating a Cataclysm
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 8:30 AM by Elyssa Tardif
The 200th anniversary of the Great Gale in Rhode Island is September 23, and the Rhode Island
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Author: Elyssa Tardif
Elyssa Tardif, Ph.D, has served as the Director of the
Newell D. Goff Center for Education and Public Programs at the Rhode Island
Historical Society since 2011.
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