Dr. Paul Robinson will discuss recent research on pre-contact period village settlements in the Narragansett Country, and the relations between the local Indian people and colonial settlers at Narragansett Bay in the years before King Philip’s War (1675-1676).
Dr. Robinson is Principal State Archaeologist at the RI Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission and an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Rhode Island College. Since coming to RI in 1979, his scholarship has focused primarily on the archaeology and history of resident tribes and communities of Indian people in southern New England.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
6:30 pm
Rhode Island Historical Society – Aldrich House
110 Benevolent St.
Providence, RI 02906
R.S.V.P. to: Natasha (401) 273-8107 x12 or libprograms@rihs.org
Free and open to the public.
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a state-wide Treasure Hunt! The Museum of Culture in Woonsocket is one of thirteen sites across Rhode Island where kids and families can learn about Latin American culture and much, much more!
Get your “treasure map,” available in both Spanish and English, on the Hispanic Heritage Committee of RI website beginning in early September.
“Nature’s Gems, Jewels and Treasures of the Natural World,” is an exhibition by Stephen J. Tierney, a native Rhode Islander currently living in Cumberland. He has been actively involved in photography for the past 25 years. He has a wide variety of interest in the field of photography specializing in capturing the many beautiful wonders of nature. Images of butterflies, birds, flowers and waterfalls taken in New England and Florida will be the highlight of the show.
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main St.
Woonsocket, RI 02895
401-769-9675
Hours:
Tuesday-Friday: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Closed Monday)
Saturday: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
This 90-minute walking tour celebrates the history of African Americans who lived on College Hill from 1701 to the present. Ray Rickman, a well known community leader, will lead a lively discussion centered on the people and historic buildings of Providence’s oldest neighborhood.
Guest Guide: Ray Rickman, historian & community activist
Begin: 10 a.m., John Brown House Museum, 52 Power Street
$10/person
For questions or reservations call Barbara Barnes at 401-273-7507 x 62 or email bbarnes@rihs.org.
Image: [Edward Mitchell Bannister, "Christiana Bannister," Item #48, http://library.brown.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/africanamericanprovidence/ Bannister+House/item/48(accessed June 9, 2011)]
A 90-minute walking tour highlighting the sculptures and art of Providence’s War Memorials with guest guide Patti Cassidy, filmmaker and urban art historian.
Begin: 10 a.m., John Brown House Museum, 52 Power Street
$10/person
For questions and reservations contact Barbara Barnes at 401-273-7507 x 62 or email bbarnes@rihs.org.
Providence has a history of celebrating its past in style. This year marks the 375th-anniversary of Roger Williams’ founding of Providence, an event that Rhode Island has long commemorated. This exhibit highlights a variety of artifacts and images from the Sestercentennial of 1886 and the Tercentenary of 1936 preserved in the Rhode Island Historical Society collections, including parade paraphernalia, cookbooks, and other commemorative artifacts.
This exhibit explores how we celebrated the past in the past, but it also looks to the present. How are we commemorating history at this very moment? RISD students commemorate the Providence of today in the form of artist’s books. These works are inspired by historic sites in Providence and its notable residents including the Old Court House and the John Brown House.
This event is part of an exhibit and lecture series co-sponsored by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University celebrating the 375th Anniversary of the founding of Providence. Programs are co-sponsored by the RI Historical Society and the Haffenreffer Museum and are linked to the Museum’s exhibition “Customes, Manners, and Worships: Rhode Island Begins.”
Baked beans, salty and sweet. Bread pudding soaked in a whiskey sauce. Hearty clam chowder topped with crunchy oyster crackers. New Englanders certainly know their comfort food. But the culinary landscape of our region is more varied and vibrant than you might imagine. In their newest book, Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald explore the culinary traditions of New England from the 17th to the 20th century and the cookbook authors who preserved them.
Keith Stavely received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Yale University and an M.L.S. from Simmons College. A librarian and library administrator for many years, he retired in 2008 as director of the Fall River Public Library. Kathleen Fitzgerald holds a B.A. in English Literature from Boston University, a Div.M. from Andover Newton Theological School, and a M.L.I.S. from the University of Rhode Island. She has worked for over twenty years as a public librarian in urban settings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and is currently a librarian at the Newport Public Library.
R.S.V.P. Elyssa Tardif, 401-331-8575 x 45 or etardif@rihs.org
