projo.com's The Rhode Island Century: Month 7

Providence: Life Preservers

Barrington: Boom town

Cranston: For young veterans' families, the new suburbia personified the essential American Dream

Blackstone Valley: A decade of disasters and a retailing revolution

Northwest: Growing ... growing ... gone

Seekonk, Mass.: Yearning for 'simpler' times fuels the craze for '50s cars

Boston: 'Greatest cash holdup' hits Brink's

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Salty's kids: Local broadcaster Walter (Salty) Brine and his collie, Jeff, who had their own TV show geared to youngsters, greet fans at a cranberry harvest festival in South Carver, Mass., in 1957.

—Journal files

A yearlong Providence Journal series about life in Rhode Island. Produced in cooperation with the Rhode Island Historical Society.