Monthly Archives: June 2015

Jun 10, 2015

Woody Spring, Rhode Island Astronaut!

Space Shuttle missions began in 1981, a year after Rhode Island’s own Sherwood “Woody” Spring was selected as an astronaut. Spring, raised in Eden Park in Cranston and Harmony village, graduated from Ponaganset High School in 1963.

Jun 2, 2015

Historical Research in Rhode Island Will Never Be the Same …

For the first time in more than 50 years, historians, students, authors, and genealogists from across New England – and around the world – will no longer be visiting the Rhode Island Historical Society Library to pursue their work.

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