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Roger Williams Project-Potential Industrial Site?, Chester Smolski
Roger Williams Project-Potential Industrial Site?, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"In a neighborhood analysis done in 1969, the Providence Department of Planning and Urban Development stated it succintly: "The Roger Williams public housing project contains some of the poorest quality housing in the area."
Glorious Pre-Industrial City, Chester Smolski
Glorious Pre-Industrial City, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
""There is Jerusalem" was the shout of joy as the convoy drivers crossed a low rise of the Judean Hills and saw ahead the outline of their destination. Bringing supplies into the city after independance in 1948 was a hazardous undertaking because snipers along the route were constant threats to the convoys that supplied this divided city, occupied by both the Jordanian army and the Jews. The stark reminder of that time is today memorialized by the numerous truck chassis found along the side of the highway and at which ceremonies are held to honor those drivers who died so …