Category: Rhode Island
A Capital City for Exiles
Published Date: October 29, 2015 Leave a Comment on A Capital City for Exiles
In a sense, this capital city is a place established for exiles. If your thoughts and ideas were too radical for the establishment, peoples from…
Too Radical for the Time & Place
Published Date: October 28, 2015 Leave a Comment on Too Radical for the Time & Place
Roger Williams’ ideas were simply too radical for his time and place, and for that, he was about to be sent back to England. That…
The Smallest of the Fifty States
Published Date: October 27, 2015 Leave a Comment on The Smallest of the Fifty States
This week we are in the smallest of the fifty states, Rhode Island, for the story of the man who helped found the colony –…
Capturing Someone’s Voice
Published Date: October 26, 2015 Leave a Comment on Capturing Someone’s Voice
In an age centuries before a recorder could capture someone’s voice, young Roger could accomplish the same thing by hand. However, you know him not…
The Voice That Inspired the Declaration of Independence
Published Date: October 22, 2015 Leave a Comment on The Voice That Inspired the Declaration of Independence
Over a century before the founding fathers would write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, this man was expounding on the ideas those documents…
