Thursday, June 12, 2014

Pure Gold- fully digitized Providence Journal Archives

Any long time reader of  the Providence Journal -interested in local history or just haunted by spirits of the long-past- would surely appreciate a fully digitized Providence Journal archive. I recall your series on the Lizzie Borden murder-mystery. Did you use tedious microfilm searches for that ?     As a Library of Congress project there are now many digitized American newspapers ( 1836-1923) .  In one of these old digitized newspapers I read a rather sultry story of an adulterous Rhode Island governor and his high society mistress. For the rich and famous perhaps a readily available local newspaper archive might expose too many still smoldering scandals.   When I was  just a kid I recall reading about my Uncle Nick assigned to the propaganda office of the United States Embassy in Rome -  back then  Uncle Nick was a professional anti-communist ( also a former Providence Journal editor ) .  But all this was during the Kennedy Era.
           And just yesterday I viewed an eerie page turning of three old newspapers - and showing their age- on You Tube: the very three days in November 1963 following the Kennedy assassination. The story is very well known. But  Thanksgiving was approaching and there were amusing ads telling the reader the price of a pound of turkey - about 40 cents.
          Does anybody at 75 Fountain St. share my interest in a fully digitized Providence Journal ?
     ( I also believe that H.P. Lovecraft once sent a letter to the Providence Journal advocating for some form of socialism.
        It was a Great Depression Year and the famous horror writer was living on Campbell's Soup .  )

                             
                                                                                                                                  

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