Almost positive. And the residents of Cooktown must be stoked at the news. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project will formally announce on Wednesday that, “. . . it is 80 to 100 percent sure that the remains of the bark Endeavour are among the wrecks in Newport Harbor.” (ProJo 5.3.16) Fans of the excellent …
This statue* of Christopher Columbus at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues is clearly not pointing in the direction of Federal Hill a neighborhood to be avoided today for many reasons. (Try Lang’s Bowlarama.) For more about Columbus, head to your local bookstore and purchase the wildly entertaining “A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World” …
Tony Horwitz, author of Blue Latitudes and Confederates in the Attic and Brown alum, will be speaking today at the Providence Athenaeum about his new book which covers the time between the Pilgrims and Columbus. Lots of fascinating stuff took place during this period but it gets pretty light treatment in our history classes to …
It was 230 years ago on this date that Captain James Cook was bludgeoned and stabbed to death on the island of Hawaii for staying just a little too long at the luau. (And if you haven’t read Blue Latitudes by Brown alum, Tony Horwitz, put it on your list.) Maritime archaeologists now suggest that …