The Block Island Times
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This Week in History, August 17, 1997: The President’s walk

By Robert M. Downie | Aug 21, 2012

This week in history 15 years ago, on August 17, President Bill Clinton visited Block Island and created the grandest spectacle in the town’s history since French privateers stormed ashore on Crescent Beach to pillage the island in the 1690s.

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