Join Providence Preservation Society from 1:00 - 2:45 pm for this new interactive photography-based activity, using Knight Memorial Library as our base. We will start with an orientation on the history and architecture of Elmwood. Participants will then be given historic or contemporary photographs of building details or sites within a 3-block vicinity and challenged to find as many […]

This one-hour tour of Providence’s industrial waterfront is led by environmental activist Angel Ramos and landscape designer Fatema Maswood, who will discuss the community impacts of pollution caused by the port in South Providence and Washington Park, the critical work that neighbors are doing to reclaim this site, and the status of the Public Street […]

Dr. Ira Reid: Haverford College’s Unsung Scholar Activist tells the story of the unsung, pioneering transformational scholar who strengthened the chorus of justice, peace and equal opportunity for all. In the first half of the 20th century, Ira de Augustine Reid was the first African American who had taught at a predominantly Black Southern university to […]