PVDFest Kicks Off With Cyborg Cities Conference One-day ideas conference features discussions about technology, rising sea levels, and cybersecurity For the second year in a row, PVDFest will begin with a daylong ideas conference at Providence Public Library. The theme of PVDFest Ideas 2018 is Cyborg Cities: Humans, Technology, and Urban Spaces, a frame that brings together artists, scholars, designers and practitioners […]

Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island. The 105 passengers and crew on board—sick, frozen, and starving—were all that remained of the 340 men, women, and children who had left their homeland the previous spring. Shortly […]

Visit the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House to meet with costumed living historians Matthew and Elizabeth Mees who will portray Jeremiah Wadsworth, colonel for Washington, quartermaster and American assistant to Blanchard of the French forces, along with his wife Mehitable Wadsworth. Find out what life was like in Newport, RI in 1780, after 12,000 French soldiers and sailors […]

Visit Washington Square and the Colony House for a morning of patriotic activities, including a reading of the Declaration of Independence. Throughout the day celebrate religious freedom and the First Amendment when over a dozen houses of worship will be open for tours. Learn how these sites symbolize Newport’s early commitment to freedom of religion […]

A Monument to Perseverance: The Struggle to Build the Newport Bridge, 1945-1960 For over three centuries, a ferry shuttled passengers across Narragansett Bay’s East Passage from Jamestown to Newport. That service ended on June 28, 1969, the day the bridge opened. After World War II, traffic from the population centers to the south and west […]