Projo " archive "- a blessing

 I would like the editors of the Providence Journal to know

    what a blessing their  ON-LINE ARCHIVE is for  readers like myself

    - half gossip, half detective, scholar, and busy body.

            Just this week -using the RIC computers - I really got acquainted

    with this invaluable service . And I had no need of my golden credit

    card ( of course I have one ! ) to access the information I was looking

    for. The " key word " search did the trick.

            I always wanted to know who moved into my old family house in

    the Washington Park area of Providence. I found out fast enough by

    just typing in the old address. It turned out that a member was charged

    with assault on a 17 year old girl. I did not need to know the REST OF

    THE STORY.

            And I found out that a close and dear friend of mine was

    questioned about a dead body in a motel. I STILL do  not know the

    REST OF THE STORY.  ALL THAT was ten years ago. I tried to call " Don "

    but his Miami phone had been recently disconnected.

            I did not even know that the Providence Journal had published

    a letter of mine complaining that Roger Williams Park was turning into

    a " Third World pigsty ". Very politically incorrect ! My Grandmother

    Engley ( it practically says England! )  was little on the nasty side

    famous for her " poison pen ".

             I also found out that a fiery parish priest - way back then

    only about 35 - is still around. Father Behan - he looked a little like

    Mickey Mantle - was now preaching at St. Jude's in Lincoln.

            I also learned that my uncle " Nick " had been a city editor

    for the Providence Journal during the Depression era.

             I look forward to many more hours of snooping on your precious

    electronic " Archive " . Someday I might need  that credit card. But

    can deliver newspapers instead ?