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The History of Block Island: Nicholas Ball
We start our tale with the Ocean View Hotel, an island staple where the cool kids of their eras stayed on visits to the Block. Famously gone, the hotel burned beyond repair in the second half of the sixties. It had stood for close to a hundred years. But the story of the Ocean View Hotel isn’t as interesting as the story of its founder and owner. No—this guy was all over the place in the best way possible.