Tag Archives: Patrick Conley

Journal review of “Lost Prov”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by David Brussat

This post corrects my lapse in failing to pass along the Sunday, Oct. 15 review of my book in the newspaper I worked at for three decades. Lost Providence was reviewed by Patrick Conley, the historian laureate of Rhode Island. … Continue reading →

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‘Lost Providence’ and readers

Posted on June 18, 2016 by David Brussat

In this digital age, with its mobility and its easy interactivity, I have been trying to imagine how to get readers of this blog interested in helping me write my book Lost Providence, an initiative just now under way. It … Continue reading →

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Worthy R.I. Hall of Fame

Posted on June 15, 2016 by David Brussat

Rhode Island has had a hall of fame, as distinguished from, let’s say, a sports or a music hall of fame, since 1965. It is, however, one of only four states without a true home for its pantheon of venerated … Continue reading →

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Patrick Conley’s waterfront

Posted on October 19, 2014 by David Brussat

Here is the column I refer to in my last post, “The lady on the waterfront“: Pat Conley’s educational wharf Sept. 29, 2005 STATE PIER No. 1 might be called the Ellis Island of the Ocean State. It was the … Continue reading →

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The lady on the waterfront

Posted on October 19, 2014 by David Brussat

In her chapter “The curse of border vacuums” in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs considered waterfronts a potential assassin of liveliness in city districts, not intrinsically so but because they were often poorly used. But … Continue reading →

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