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Ellison Myers "Tarzan" Brown

By Katharine Kirakosian and Tomaquag Museum
On April 21st 1936, 22-year old Ellison Brown arrived at the Rhode Island State House and was met by a roaring ovation from the Rhode Island General Assembly. When asked to speak, he said "I did it for Rhode Island." What Ellison had done…
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This work is licensed by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, the Rhode Island Historical Society and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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