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All Posts for Tag:
"diaries"

Feb 1, 2018
  • diaries
  • love
  • Love letters
  • valentines

Let My Love Open the Door: Part One

Get revved up for a romantic Valentine’s Day by reading the exploits of a young man looking for love at … Continue reading Let My Love Open the Door: Part One

Nov 21, 2017
  • diaries
  • holidays
  • Netop Nights
  • Thanksgiving
  • women

From the Diary of Theodora Armington

Written in the late 1880s, this petite diary of Theodora G. (Bowen) Armington (1877-1967) includes almost yearly entries about Thanksgiving … Continue reading From the Diary of Theodora Armington

John Combe Pegram
Feb 24, 2016
  • diaries
  • disease
  • John Combe Pegram
  • typhoid
  • Typhoid Mary

A Tale of Typhoid

Excerpts from the diary of a Providence lawyer, John C. Pegram, concerning his daughter, Virginia Austin. Monday May 2, 1892 … Continue reading A Tale of Typhoid

Dec 23, 2015
  • Christmas
  • diaries
  • family
  • holidays

Christmas Cheer?

Diary Excerpts from the Rhode Island Historical Society collections. While most diary entries about Christmas are happy remembrances like Sarah … Continue reading Christmas Cheer?

Nov 25, 2015
  • diaries
  • holidays
  • Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Reminiscences

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving! As we all prepare ourselves for the fun-filled frenzy of family gatherings and eating too much, the … Continue reading Thanksgiving Reminiscences

Nov 24, 2013
  • 18th century
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Benedict Arnold
  • diaries
  • Enos Hitchcock
  • manuscripts
  • primary source research

A perfidious wretch: Hitchcock's sermon on Arnold's treason

By you probably know how much I like the Reverend Enos Hitchcock in all his forms and centuries. We are … Continue reading A perfidious wretch: Hitchcock's sermon on Arnold's treason

Jun 6, 2013
  • D Day
  • diaries
  • diaries and journals
  • Helen Clark Grimes
  • June 6 1944
  • rhode island
  • women authors
  • working women
  • World War II

Object Thursday: D-Day Diary

69 years ago today, the Allies launched the invasion of Europe. Many of us are familiar with D-Day from the … Continue reading Object Thursday: D-Day Diary

May 17, 2013
  • 18th century
  • American Revolutionary War
  • diaries
  • Enos Hitchcock
  • RIHS publications

Faith & Freedom Friday: Enos Hitchcock, Army Chaplain

He was born on March 3, 1744 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and came to Providence after the Revolutionary War. When fighting … Continue reading Faith & Freedom Friday: Enos Hitchcock, Army Chaplain

Dec 24, 2011
  • 2nd Rhode Island Regiment
  • Albigence Waldo
  • American Revolutionary War
  • diaries
  • diaries and journals
  • Valley Forge

Cold Christmas

New England troops had a cold Christmas in 1777 at Valley Forge. Most of us are familiar with the story—ragged, … Continue reading Cold Christmas

Dec 22, 2011
  • 1st Connecticut Regiment
  • 2nd Rhode Island Regiment
  • Albigence Waldo
  • American Revolutionary War
  • diaries
  • diaries and journals
  • Ebenezer David
  • Jeremiah Greenman

Fire Cake & Water: Soldiers’ Winter Part III

Perception is reality, but how does a soldier’s own reality color his perception? For Jeremiah Greenman of the 2nd Rhode … Continue reading Fire Cake & Water: Soldiers’ Winter Part III

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