Category Vexillology
Friday Flagging: Smithfield
Going to Apple Valley to talk more about mills villages, partitions, and how suburbanization revitalized western RI.
Friday Flagging: Scituate
Scituate, one of three towns formed from Providence, could never quite escape the influence of the state capital, which permanently transformed it with the reservoir.
Friday Flagging: Richmond
Richmond, the fourth division of Westerly, and a town where the populated areas are almost all shared with other towns.
Friday Flagging: Providence
The politics of logos, seals, and flags in a diverse city with a lot of strong-willed people. And can you even make a flag to represent Providence?
A Nearly 4000 Word History of Providence, RI
A history of Providence in less than 4,000 words. But not all of the history of Providence by far.
Friday Flagging: Pawtucket
Pawtucket, a city astride two states, the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution, and also a hotbed of the labor movement.
Friday Flagging: North Smithfield
North Smithfield, how a small decision can have repercussions down the line.
Friday Flagging: North Providence
Exploring the flag of North Providence, the most-reduced town in Rhode Island, home of turnpikes and exploding gunpowder mill.
