Rory Raven: 3 books

Book cover of Haunted Providence

Haunted Providence

Strange Tales from the Smallest State

by Rory Raven
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008

The Ocean State’s capital city is awash in ghostly tales told by “mentalist, mindbender, and professional skeptic, the always entertaining Rory Raven” (Providence Daily Dose).   Author Rory Raven has collected stories and tales drawn from the history and folklore of one of the oldest cities...
Book cover of Burning the Gaspee

Burning the Gaspee

Revolution in Rhode Island

by Rory Raven
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

When the Gaspee entered the waters of Narragansett Bay outside Newport in 1772, revolutionary Rhode Island was a hotbed of traders, smugglers and anti-British sentiment. In just a few months, the ship would be burned and its commander shot by possibly the first gunfire of the American Revolution. Join...
Book cover of The Dorr War: Treason, Rebellion & the Fight for Reform in Rhode Island
by Rory Raven
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010

The short and portly Rhode Island aristocrat was hardly the image of the people's champion, but in 1841, Thomas Dorr became just that. At a time when only white male landowners could vote, the idealistic Dorr envisioned a more democratic state. In October of that year, the People's Convention ratified...
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