Memories of Fairlawn.

Book Synopsis: This memoir took about two years to complete and was useful in piecing events together in my life that I learned many of life’s lessons from. It was also enjoyable reminiscing about the place where I grew up and stories that I was told. Many of these stories were told and re-told to me from my earliest days and I have had the good fortune to remember most of them. The rest are events that I personally experienced or were events that I was personally told about, with some historical sports information from old newspaper accounts. I attempted to keep the focus on events that happened in regards to the people and places in and around Fairlawn, from the nineteen thirties though the nineteen nineties. I omitted most of the tragic events that I know of and my experiences and tales that I heard from other areas as much as I could. I do not take any side with any of the adversarial events, but merely report what I know to be true and what I was told was true.

For anyone reading that is not familiar with the area. Fairlawn has a rich history and is mostly a working-class neighborhood and has always been a desirable place to live. It geographically encompasses two small areas of land in two different municipalities. One portion is in the city of Pawtucket in the state of Rhode Island and the other further north is in the town of Lincoln, Rhode Island. All of the stories here are true to the best of my knowledge, but I have changed some of the names and places for anonymity.