In 1772, merchant John Brown recruited men from a Providence tavern to silently row south on part of Narragansett Bay, board the British revenue schooner HMS Gaspee and set the custom's patrol boat on ...
“I should be Poseidon,” a new collection of pictures and prose, seamlessly blends in with the first floor of Rhode Island Hall. Curated by Yannis Hamilakis, professor of classics, and his ...
NEAR THE LAST REPORTED POSITION OF HMS GASPEE — Engineers in a small work boat spent hours motoring back and forth off the beach of Gaspee Point Tuesday, electronically scouring the bottom of ...