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Linden Place

500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States
401-253-0390 lindenplace.org

February 2015

Come and Explore the Bristol Slavery Trail

February 21, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States

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.

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April 2015

Bristol Slavery Trail Walking Tour

April 11, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States

Linden Place Museum will host a walking tour of Linden Place Mansion and downtown Bristol, focused specifically on Bristol’s DeWolf Family and their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The DeWolf family, Bristol’s premier family in the 18th and early 19th centuries, was once one of the largest traders of slaves in New England. Learn how Bristol, New England, and all of America were impacted by the slave trading DeWolf’s of Linden Place from museum educator, Robin Tremblay. Tremblay has…

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Scavenger Hunt Tours for Kids & Families at Linden Place Mansion in Bristol

April 23, 2015 @ 2:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States

Linden Place, the Federal-style mansion built in 1810 by architect Russell Warren for slave trader George DeWolf, offers children and adults the opportunity to see this historical house museum in a whole new light! Make your way through our 200-year old mansion rooms and seek out dozens of artifacts, big and small, while you learn about Linden Place's rich architectural and family history. Seek out a Roman, life-size marble statue of Bacchus, search for George Washington and find out the…

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May 2015

Season opening concert titled “Mamma” to be held in the historic ballroom at Linden Place on Mother’s Day weekend

May 8, 2015 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States
$20

Linden Place Mansion welcomes springtime with a concert of traditional and contemporary Italian, Neapolitan and Italian-American songs performed by pianist and singer Michael DiMucci in the mansion’s historic Ballroom on Friday, May 8th at 7:30 p.m. DiMucci will perform selections like O Sole Mio, Come Back to Sorrento, Ahi! Marie, Mamma and other crossover pieces made famous by Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban and Sarah Brightman in a night celebrating “Mamma” and all things Italian. A graduate of Westminster Conservatory of…

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Bristol Slavery Trail Walking Tour

May 16, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States

Linden Place Museum will host a walking tour of Linden Place Mansion and downtown Bristol, focused specifically on Bristol’s DeWolf Family and their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The DeWolf family, Bristol’s premier family in the 18th and early 19th centuries, was once one of the largest traders of slaves in New England. The guided tour will take place on Saturday, May 16th at 10:00am and will begin at Linden Place, the Federal-style mansion built by architect Russell Warren…

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August 2015

Bristol Slavery Trail Walking Tour

August 15, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States
$20

Linden Place Museum will host a walking tour of Linden Place Mansion and downtown Bristol, focused specifically on Bristol’s DeWolf Family and their involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. The DeWolf family, Bristol’s premier family in the 18th and early 19th centuries, was once one of the largest traders of slaves in New England. Learn how Bristol, New England, and all of America were impacted by the slave trading DeWolf’s of Linden Place from museum educator, Robin Tremblay. Tremblay has…

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June 2019

Breaking Chains – Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation & Race in Rhode Island

June 13, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States

2019 marks 400 years of slavery in America. Rhode Island was a major player in this vicious episode of our history, and also a leader in abolishing it. Breaking Chains tells this story through a series of events held from June 12 to June 15. Breaking Chains Event 2 “Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation & Race in Rhode Island” with Rhode Island’s leading scholar on Rhode Island slavery, Dr. Joanne Pope Melish and URI assistant professor Dr. Marcus Nevius. Bristol was…

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April 2022

Bristol BookFest

April 2, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States
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Free – $30

Bristol BookFest 2022 consists of a free keynote talk on Friday evening, April 1, from 5-6:30pm at St. Michael's Episcopal Church (399 Hope St.) and a paid day program of speakers and informal discussions on Saturday, April 2, from 9am-5pm in Linden Place ballroom (500 Hope St.). It ends with a reception open to registrants at the Rogers Free Library (525 Hope St.) from 5-6:30pm. Dr. Jay Baruch, a writer and emergency room physician on the faculty of Brown University's Alpert Medical School, known…

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June 2022

AUTHOR TALK WITH SKIP FINLEY, AWARD-WINNING WRITER

June 7, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Linden Place, 500 Hope Street
Bristol, RI 02809 United States
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Free

Over time, some 1750,000 people went whaling. Most experienced the "Nantucket sleigh ride" only once because of the extreme and dangerous conditions, but as many 30% of the those working on whalers were men of color. Join Martha's Vineyard author Skip Finley in the Linden Place Carriage House as he leads us on this fascinating journey of discovery, based on his best-selling book "Whaling Captains of Color, America's First Meritocracy." This event is free but space is limited so please…

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