From Newport’s Colonial Golden Age to Gilded Age summer colony, discover the transformation of the city and its people. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770. Presented by Newport […]
See where scoundrels lived, pirates profited and criminals were punished. Find out why this colony was known as “Rogue’s Island.” Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770.
Home to craftsmen, merchants, religious dissenters and more, the Point neighborhood has a rich colonial history. Tour includes a brief stop inside the parlor of the Christopher Townsend House for a sensory exploration of colonial trade goods. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter […]
February 15 at 3:00pm, the Bay Spring Community Center hosts Michael Fishel Bresler and Phil Edmonds. The duo performs originals and traditional Irish and Jewish melodies interposed with heaps of humor. The pair makes laughter and high spirits an integral part of every presentation, and draws in audiences of all types and ages. We hope […]
Aurea sets its gaze on the subject of love in this Valentine program, merging the great Brahms G Major String Sextet, Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade, Gershwin’s Lullaby and Respighi’s Il Tramonto, with poetry of Shelley, Novalis, Rilke & Nigel Gore, and improvisations of Chris Turner.
Hear stories of revolution and ruin, struggles for religious liberty and remarkable entrepreneurship among Newport’s diverse people. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770. Presented by Newport History Tours.
Riots and rebellion, enemies and allies! Learn about Newport’s role in the American Revolution. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770. Presented by Newport History Tours.
From Newport’s colonial Golden Age to Gilded Age summer colony, discover the transformation of the city and its people. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770.
See where scoundrels lived, pirates profited and criminals were punished. Find out why this colony was known as “Rogue’s Island.” Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770. Presented by […]
Join the Newport Historical Society staff for a talk about the new book "Newport History Bytes: 50 Fast Facts" and the blog that it’s based upon. $5
Over 10 memorable weeks in 1964 known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers from around the country joined organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states. The ideas and practices instituted that special […]
Discover Newport’s colonial history, its religious and racial diversity, its role in the American Revolution, and its remarkable architecture on a kid-friendly tour. Each family will complete a special History Detective workbook, recording observations from clues. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $5 for adults/free with Winter Festival button; […]
Bristol, RI, February 21, 2015 – Linden Place Museum will honor Black History Month with a free lecture on Bristol and the DeWolf Family’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The DeWolf’s and Brown’s of Providence led the American trade in enslaved Africans from 1769 until 1820.
In August 1765, a group of Newporters organized a riot that turned leading citizens against each other and set Rhode Island on a path to rebellion against Great Britain. This tour explores what happened on those fateful summer days and offers a glimpse into life in colonial Newport on the eve of revolution. Tour begins at […]
Hear stories of revolution and ruin, struggles for religious liberty and remarkable entrepreneurship among Newport’s diverse people. Tour begins at the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street. $15 a person/ $12 w/Newport Winter Festival button/$10 with button for repeat tour guests. Weather permitting; space is limited. (401) 841-8770. Presented by Newport History Tours.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a Native American contemporary artist and a member of the Flathead Nation. She will present an overview of Native art today that looks at new media such as installation, performance, photography as well as artists who are trained in painting, sculpture and clay with a Native ideology. Jaune will also present a […]
Join the Center for Slavery & Justice and American Dance Legacy Initiative for a screening of CHAIN GANGS: SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME at the Granoff Center for Creative Arts.
Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our country's most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, […]
Join American Dance Legacy Initiative at Brown University's Granoff Center for multi-media activities inspired by Donald McKayle’s 1959 signature dance work, Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder about chain gangs in the American south.