Hear the findings of the urban spelunking team after they journey into the underground structure at the Newport Spring Site. In the days prior to the lecture, Roma Sotteranea, an Italian organization specializing in the study of urban speleology, will be sending a team of experts in subterranean water structures to evaluate the materials, construction […]
A History Space Program On Friday, March 23, 2018 10am-12pm join the Newport Historical Society and the Rhode Island Historical Society in a joint program at Newport’s Colony House, Washington Square, Newport, RI, for “Myth, Memory, History and Heritage,” a panel of public historians. The panel will discuss, for an audience of practitioners and the […]
When Sylvia Brown’s father handed much of his inheritance to Brown University in 1995, the gesture maintained a 300-year family philanthropic tradition. Less than a decade later, at the inaugural symposium of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, one speaker declared “there were no good Browns.” “Grappling with Legacy” was born of the […]
On April 12th at 7pm join the Newport String Project for “Musical Pioneers”, an evocative program featuring chamber works by trailblazing composers including Franz Joseph Haydn, Grazyna Bacewicz and George Walker, hosted by the Newport Historical Society on the second floor of the Colony House on Washington Square, Newport, RI. This event is only accessible […]
Undressing History: Women’s Clothes & Unmentionables from the 19th Century A History Space Talk Presented by the Newport Historical Society & the Rhode Island Historical Society The Newport Historical Society and the Rhode Island Historical Society are pleased to partner for their first 2018 joint History Space talk when they present Undressing History: Women’s Clothes […]
Is war good for business? It was 100 years ago. Join Morgan Grefe, Executive Director for the Rhode Island Historical Society at the Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House, 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI, 02840 on Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 5:30 for a lecture on Rhode Island’s booming industry during World War I. Coming off […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Newport’s Old Quarter comes to life during the Newport Historical Society’s 5th annual summer living history program, Life During the 1778 Battle of Rhode Island. The focus, which marks the 240th anniversary of this battle, features daily life in Newport during the summer of 1778 and the weeks surrounding the Battle of Rhode Island. This […]
