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Warren exhibit shows Christmas, a century ago

By   /  November 30, 2012  /  News  /  No Comments

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A new exhibit at the George Hail Library offers a window on what holiday greetings were like a century ago. A collection of Christmas postcards, delivered to Warren resident Mary DeWolf between 1908 and 1912, was recently donated to the library by John Chaney of the Massasoit Historical Association. He got them from an Iowa [...]

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Warren veteran donates Battle of the Bulge artifacts

By   /  September 14, 2012  /  News  /  No Comments

Photos by Richard W Dionne Jr
Morphis Jamiel holds up a Nazi flag that he retrieved from a top a town hall of a German city after the Battle of the Bulge in 1945.

 The Battle of The Bulge, the German’s last offensive in World War II, cost some 19,000 American lives and paved the way for the Allies’ victory in the bloody war. Morphis Jamiel was there, has never forgotten it, and now wants others to remember and learn from it. At 6:30 p.m. ext Wednesday, Sept. 19, [...]

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