Yankee Ingenuity Oral History Project (Mss. Gr. 31)

Twenty longtime residents of three communities, Charlestown , Richmond , and Hopkinton, were interviewed by seven Chariho senior students who asked several questions in four broad areas – education, the proposed Charlestown nuclear plant, the town meeting, and Yankee ingenuity.

Project directors were Linda Wood, librarian at Chariho, and Paul Eastwood, history teacher and audio-visual specialist at Chariho. Humanists involved in the project were Prof. James Findlay, History Department at the University of Rhode Island, and Prof. Edgar Leduc, Chairman of the Political Science Department at the University.

Student interviewers were: Debra Brown, Stephen Fish, Greg Korean, Phil Loomis, Ricci Sicilano, Karen Weeden, and Mildred Wheeler.

Transcriber was Mrs. Naomi Germia; typists were Miss Patricia L’Heureux and Mrs. Polly Vredenburg.