South County Museum

South County Museum Curator Rebecca Kelly will speak on Gilded Age resort fashion. Registration is not required. Visit the museum’s website for more information. The Summer Speaker Series is free lectures and presentations by local historians, authors, and traditional craftspeople to mark the Museum’s 90th birthday. Series topics will include the connection of Rhode Island’s […]

South County Museum Summer Research Fellow Payton Becker will share her research on the history of bridal fashion. Registration is not required. Visit the museum’s website for more information. The Summer Speaker Series is free lectures and presentations by local historians, authors, and traditional craftspeople to mark the Museum’s 90th birthday. Series topics will include […]

Christian McBurney, historian and author of Machine Guns in Narragansett Bay: The Coast Guard’s War on Rumrunners (History Press, 2023), will speak on rum running in Rhode Island waters during Prohibition. Registration is not required. Visit the museum’s website for more information. The Summer Speaker Series is free lectures and presentations by local historians, authors, […]

Author and historian Rob Grandchamp will speak about the Seventh Rhode Island Volunteers and how they tell the story of a Civil War combat regiment. The lecture will also feature seven artifacts! Registration is not required. Visit the museum’s website for more information. The Summer Speaker Series is free lectures and presentations by local historians, […]

In History's Wake: The Trap Fishermen of Rhode Island, Slideshow by Markham Starr: This slideshow covers the last of the floating trap fishing companies operating in Rhode Island. This fishery, going back over 150 years, once dominated the coastline but was quickly abandoned with the advent of the modern trawler. The show follows these fishermen […]