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NEWSLETTERS
We are pleased to make recent issues of "The Crier"
-- a quarterly publication of the Glocester Heritage Society -- available online for viewing and printing.
If you have a story about GHS, its events, its people, or topics of local historic interest, please feel free to submit it to GHS.
If you are able to receive this quarterly newsletter via e-mail or by accessing this web site, please let us know! It would save the GHS publishing and
postage. Contact us!
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BOOKS
- "Jocktan Putnam's Cows": An Agrarian Rebellion In Glocester, Rhode Island, 1782-83
In the winter of 1782-83, with the eight-year American Revolution winding down to its victorious conclusion, the town of Glocester, Rhode
Island found itself embroiled in a bloody and contentious controversy that threatened to tear that community apart.
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- Glocester, Rhode Island (Images of America Series)
Edna Whitaker Kent. Photographic essay of Glocester includes 112 photographs and memorabilia from various private collections, spanning the
years 1826-1992. Each photograph is captioned with detailed information from the author's private research files encompassing authoritative
texts, town records, and personal interviews. Features Chepachet, Harmony, West Glocester, Cherry Valley, including businesses, mills, parades
, events, Old Home Days, turnpikes and roads, earth industry, and schools. Includes photo of gun used to shoot renowned Betty the Elephant
at Chepachet Bridge and eyewitness drawing of Dorr Rebellion by prisoner of war. 1998, 128 pp., photos, map, paper, $20.00 (includes S&H).
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- Glocester - The Way Up Country: A History, Guide and Directory
Compiled by The Heritage Division, Glocester Bicentennial Commission; edited by Edna Whitaker Kent. Pre-settlement history, the land, settlers,
incorporation, commerce, Dorr Rebellion 1842 (RI's only civil war), wars, religion, schools, public service, singular events, shooting of elephant
1826, personal profiles, chronology, town panoramas with poetry, memory lane; with an introduction from the pen of H.P. Lovecraft. 1976, 192 pp., over 80 photos & illus., 2 maps, hardcover, $24.00 (includes S&H).
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