``This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable Family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island.
It is clearly a labor of love, and we should all be grateful to her for it.`` - Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, former President of Brown University ``A splendid work of history---an honest, clearly written, a.
Sylvia Brown has made a tremendous contribution in writing this wonderful book. ``This is a fascinating and intellectually honest work about a remarkable Family that has played a major role in the history of Providence and Rhode Island