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Scholar with Gainesville family leads quest to decipher Rhode Island founders mysterious text
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The preface page of the "Mystery Book" from the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, R.I.
Lucas Mason-Brown has always had an interest in puzzles and mathematics. So it stands to reason the Brown University senior math major would be interested in joining a team of undergraduate students as they attempted to solve a centuries-old Rhode Island mystery. Mason-Brown is from Belmont, Mass.