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City of Providence

I am going to articulate my words about the details of providence city. Lord Bryce, the English commentator on trans-Atlantic matters, suggested that providence might become the first American city state. That never happened, but the city’s name is embedded in the state’s official title. Rhode Island and providence plantations and the two are hard [...]

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Specialties of Providence

Providence city has a less noble face. Since early times, it has been a school for scandal. Cotton Mather, that stiff necked old Massachusetts puritan, called Rhode island the sewer of new England, and George Washington accused it of impolitic unjust and one might add, without much impropriety scandalous conduct. In 1904 the muckraker Lincoln [...]

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