Preacher Of Providence
Roger Williams is banished from Salem and is given shelter by the Indian Massasoit of the Wampanoag tribe. He purchases land from the Narrangansetts and founds the village of Providence, Rhode Island. Benjamin J. Swig (of the Jewish Theological Seminary, San Francisco) speaks after the drama. A continuation of the story begun on "The Eternal Light on November 19, 1950 (see cat. #73986).
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The Eternal Light was an American radio and television program on the NBC Radio Network, produced in conjunction with the Jewish Theological Seminary, that was broadcast between 1944 and 1989. Featuring interviews, commentary, and award-winning dramas from the perspective of Judaism, it began on radio in 1944 and continued as a weekly radio program through 1989. A 1946 program, for example, dramatized humanitarian Lillian Wald's founding of New York City's Henry Street Settlement in 1895. The May 31, 1959, program featured a tour of the Holy Land narrated by Ralph Bellamy.
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“Preacher Of Providence.” The Eternal Light. Radio broadcast, December 17, 1950.
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