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Woonsocket native Prosper Longplow once sailed the seas with Mary Read, the beautiful and bloodthirsty Pirate Queen! After Prosper's ship was attacked by Read's schooner The Untold Misery, he and his shipmates were forced into humiliating servitude, and were soon witness to Read's acts of gross barbarism and depravity.

A visitor to Bill Thompson's miniature industrial workshop might expect to see him making intricate machines or auto parts. Instead, what emerges are smooth, mesmerizing forms that never suggest the messy, labor-intensive processes he uses to make them.