The Spirit of Block Island: Full rejection of the proposed 1942 evacuation of this little spot of earth

A northeaster had just dumped two inches of snow. At Block Island’s Old Harbor, fishermen labored shoveling white powder out of their vessels. As this was January 1942 however, the talk of the locals on Block Island, like any American community, was...

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