Hope & Other Currents: Stories From Rhode Island’s Past

Hope & Other Currents: Stories From Rhode Island’s Past

Eight stories. Three hundred years. One small state with a long memory. From Roger Williams's radical fight for soul liberty in a London consumed by civil war, to the devastating flood that silenced the mills of Pawtucket, Hope & Other Currents traces the lives of dissenters, sachems, rebels, and builders who shaped Rhode Island's soul. These are stories of impossible choices — a sachem navigating the eve of war, patriots burning a king's ship in the dark of the Narragansett Bay, a man sacrificing his freedom so that others might vote, and a family watching the canal they built with their hands become obsolete. Each story flows into the next like the rivers and tides that connect them, revealing a past that is never settled and never silent. Step into the current.