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"children"

Hands-On History: Interactions with the Colonial Period for Kids

On Saturday, February 22 the Rhode Island Historical Society will present Hands-On History: Interactions with the Colonial Period for Kids. … Continue reading Hands-On History: Interactions with the Colonial Period for Kids

Flights of Friction: Fact or Fiction Smithsonian Traveling Trunk Activity

The Museum of Work & Culture, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society, will host a free Smithsonian Traveling … Continue reading Flights of Friction: Fact or Fiction Smithsonian Traveling Trunk Activity

Children’s Baking Workshop with Gingersnaps Bakery

The Museum of Work & Culture, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society, will offer its annual Children’s Baking … Continue reading Children’s Baking Workshop with Gingersnaps Bakery

Annual Children’s Baking Workshop with Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery

The Museum of Work & Culture will offer its annual Children’s Baking Workshop with Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery this … Continue reading Annual Children’s Baking Workshop with Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery

Jan 2, 2014
  • Benefit Street
  • Bleachery Pond
  • children
  • Margaret Bingham Stillwell
  • Object Thursday
  • rhode island
  • RI
  • Saylesville
  • sledding
  • snow
  • snow day

Object Thursday: Sledding in Saylesville

Children all over Rhode Island are looking forward to a snow day, and wondering why some of them had school … Continue reading Object Thursday: Sledding in Saylesville

Jun 21, 2013
  • childhood
  • children
  • embroidery
  • girls
  • rhode island
  • samplers
  • textiles

Object Thursday: A Stitch in Time

Samplers invoke mixed reactions from people, they either love them, they hate them or they have never heard of them. … Continue reading Object Thursday: A Stitch in Time

Nov 23, 2011
  • children
  • clothing
  • Colonial Rhode Island
  • rhode island
  • textiles

One for the Little Boy

At an event commemorating the 235th anniversary of the Fall of Fort Lee in New Jersey, I watched the re-enactors’ … Continue reading One for the Little Boy

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