Block Island: The Las Vegas of the East! The decade-long eff

For 12 consecutive years from 1958 to1970, Rhode Island State Senator Francis J. LaChapelle, of West Warwick proposed legislation to legalize gambling on Block Island. Boosterism campaigns promised a tax-free Rhode Island if only Block Island became...

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