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The Bruno Brief: Digging into the East Side's tunnels
In the second episode of the Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Producer Sonya McNatt speaks with Finn Kirkpatrick, Arts & Culture editor and Bruno Brief editor, about his reporting on the now closed-off tunnels that run underneath Brown’s campus and Providence's East Side. What’s the deal with these tunnels? What are their histories? And what’s their status today?
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Clarification: This podcast has been updated to add additional information about safety conditions inside tunnels and guidance surrounding them.
Sources:
Brown Daily Herald — March 15, 2007
Archeology of College Hill and Brown University
The New Yorker: “Peculiar Institutions”
New York Times: “Providence Tunnel Opened”
Art in Ruins: East Side Train Tunnel
Providence Daily Dose: “East Side Cultist Riot 1993”
Providence Daily Dose: “East Side Tunnel Inspires New Russom Album”
Providence Police 1994 Documentary by Josh Oreck and Ivan Hurzeler