| Around The Block | Rhode Island Preservation News
April 25, 2008 | | Preseve Rhode Island News | Spring 2008 Preservation Mini-Grant applications now available May 30th deadline  Non-profit organizations looking for funds to help aid their preservation projects are invited to apply. Grants range from $300 to $1000. A 100% match is required and no in-kind matches will be accepted. Grants may be used for fees associated with preservation and planning consultants, planning studies, project designs, creation of preservation education projects, or emergency intervention for historic properties. Expenses related to regular maintenance and repairs of structures, professional training, conferences or seminars are not eligible.
Through the generosity of the Citizens Bank Foundation, Preserve Rhode Island established the program in 1999 to provide seed money for a wide range of historic preservation projects in Rhode Island. In the past nine years, the mini-grant program has provided nearly $61,000 for 66 preservation projects statewide. For more information and to receive a mini-grant application please contact Susanna Prull, Preservation Services Coordinator, at 272-5101 or sprull@preserveri.org. |  Grow Smart RI
The Power of Place Summit Charting a course to sustainable prosperity Friday, May 2, 2008 Rhode Island Convention Center  As the U.S. and Rhode Island economies slide further into recession and we're bombarded with a continual drumbeat of doom and gloom headlines about our state's future, Grow Smart Rhode Island and several other key community stakeholders are confronting the challenge and advancing a positive agenda for sustainable prosperity in Rhode Island. A key forum for this agenda will be the 2nd biennial Power of Place Summit.
Our inaugural Power of Place Summit in 2006 drew nearly 500 opinion leaders, state and local officials, academics, development professionals, investors, journalists and citizen activists for the launch of Rhode Island's new smart growth oriented state land-use plan. There are now encouraging examples all across our state of how some of the plan's long-term strategies and recommendations are being embraced and implemented to the benefit of our communities and future generations. Yet other key objectives - such as reducing our state's over-reliance on the local property tax, better integrating our transportation system with desired development goals and targeting more of our state investment dollars to energy efficient urban, town and village centers - remain daunting challenges that keep us from reaching our potential. This upcoming Summit will take a closer look at how the growth and development choices we make today will impact our economy, quality places, public health, environment, the efficiency of state and local government and the taxes we pay. We'll look at what's working and what needs to be improved to grow our innovation economy, revitalize our walkable centers, ensure agricultural viability, promote healthy community design and reduce global warming pollution, among other key goals for a prosperous and sustainable future. Highlights: · Morning Keynote Speaker: Bruce Katz, Founder and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution "The Blueprint for American Prosperity" · Panel Response from Governor Carcieri (invited), Mayor Cicilline, Economist Richard Seline and Grow Smart Executive Director Scott Wolf · Lunchtime Keynote Address: Patrick MacRoy, Executive Director, Alliance for Healthy Homes, Washington, DC - "The Connection between Public Health & the Built Environment" · A total of 24 workshop on everything from Smart Economic Development, Place-Making and Renewable Energy to Low Impact Development, Tax Increment Financing and LEED-ND For more details visit the Grown Smart RI website here. | | Thresholds! Step Inside History Historic Sites Coalition of RI Free Statewide Open House May 10, 2008 12pm-3pm 
Please join us in celebrating RI Tourism Week and Preservation Month in May by visiting Rhode Island's historic sites for free! Twenty-four historic sites from around the state, and at least two from each county, are participating in this event to introduce the Historic Sites Coalition of RI (HSCRI) and to highlight Rhode Island's special historic places. Rediscover your local historic site or explore a historic site in your neighboring community. Why not? It's free! Bristol County Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Bristol Bristol Statehouse, Bristol Coggeshall Farm, Bristol Kent County Clouds Hill Victorian House Museum, Warwick Pawtucket Valley Preservation and Historical Society, West Warwick Newport County Whitehorne House, Newport Wilbor House, Little Compton Providence County Captain Wilbur Kelly House, Lincoln Governor Henry Lippitt House Museum, Providence Governor Sprague Mansion, Cranston Governor Stephen Hopkins House, Providence The HandiCraft Club, Providence Hannaway's Blacksmith Shop, Lincoln Hearthside, Lincoln Hunt House Museum, Rumford John Brown House, Providence Joy Homestead, Cranston Slater Mill, Pawtucket Valentine Whitman Jr. House, Lincoln Washington County Gilbert Stuart Birthplace and Museum, Saunderstown Pettaquamscutt Historical Society, Kingston Oliver Watson House, Kingston Westerly Armory, Westerly Smith's Castle, Wickford | | Rhode Island Wool & Fiber Festival 
Coggeshall Farm Museum will host the 2nd Annual Rhode Island Wool & Fiber Festival on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 9am - 4pm at their beautiful farm off Poppasquash Road in Bristol. Admission is $8 adults, $5 Seniors & Children 6-12, $3 Children under 6. Free for museum members! Food and beverages will be available. For more details on activities and vendors please view the event Brochure! | | Rhode Island Preservation News Links | | 4/13 Builders wary of curtailed tax credits 4/19 Now residential Neighborhood of the Week: 4/20 Oaklawn in Cranston: History and a bike path run through the Victorian village Barrington 4/22 CVS to showcase historical photos of Barrington Preservation news links are provided by PRI staff for informational purposes only. The inclusion or exclusion of articles should not be considered as an endorsement or indictment of their contents. | |
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