After Four Decades, Providence Newspaper Guild Follies Will End

Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal
Sat, 01/20/2018 - 11:42am

This year's Feb. 23 musical revue, which lampoons life — especially politicians — in Rhode Island will be the last in an annual series that started in 1974 after a bitter newspaper strike

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