September 6 & 7
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
Bank of America Museums on Us
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
Free Admission for Bank of America Customers!
The Museum of Work & Culture Co-Directors, Raymond H. Bacon and Anne D. Conway have announced that for the seventh consecutive year, the Museum, located in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has been selected to participate in the Bank of America Museums on US program. This program provides unparalleled access to some of the nation’s greatest museums and cultural institutions. Visitors to the Museum will receive free admission every first weekend of the month throughout the year by simply presenting their Bank of America card. Additionally, participants will receive 10% off their purchases in the Museum Store. For more information on Museums on Us™ or Bank of America’s arts and culture programming, please visit www.bankofamerica.com/museums <http://www.bankofamerica.com/museums> .
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Saturday, September 13
Evenings of full WaterFire lightings, 5:30 p.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
$10 per person
Reservations requested: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
RiverWalk: Before the Fires are Lit
After the arrival of Roger Williams in 1636, rivers shaped the life of the city of Providence. The Colonial waterfront was the site of a thriving shipping economy for a young town. Eventually, factories and railroads turned attention away from the rivers and toward the land. After the 1950s, highways and bridges covered the waterways, and the rivers were forgotten. But that was yesterday! Today, architects and city planners are creating a “new” waterfront. Once again, the rivers take center stage. And no event commands more attention than Barnaby Evans’ WaterFire. Smartly designed walkways, parks, and pedestrian bridges invite strolling, especially on summer evenings. Urban outdoor sculpture and beautiful civic and commercial buildings of varied architectural styles provide the setting for stories of Providence’s fabled past and dynamic present. This walk shares the history of Rhode Island’s capital city and the history of WaterFire.
$10 per person. Reservations requested for this tour. For schedule of WaterFire lightings: www.waterfire.org <http://www.waterfire.org/> , or (401) 272-3111. This walk is offered in collaboration with WaterFire.
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Thursday, September 18, 6:30 p.m.
Gallery Night
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
If These Walls Could Talk…. Dramatic Reading of Cry Elmina
Dr. Vanessa Quainoo, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island, will be reading excerpts of her epic poem Cry Elmina. The poem looks into the lives of enslaved Africans while being held captive at the slave castle Elmina before taken on the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Reservations requested.
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At the Providence Public Library…
History High Jinks Book Club at Central Library!
To register & reserve your books, call or email leader Nancy Callahan:
401-787-4152; nancycallahan@cox.net.
September 8: Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank.
Slavery in the South has been documented in volumes ranging from exhaustive histories to bestselling novels. But the North’s profit from-indeed, dependence on-slavery has mostly been a shameful and well-kept secret . . . until now. In this startling and superbly researched new book, three veteran New England journalists demythologize the region of America known for tolerance and liberation, revealing a place where thousands of people were held in bondage and slavery was both an economic dynamo and a necessary way of life.
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Founded in 1822, the Rhode Island Historical Society is the nation’s fourth oldest state historical society and is today the steward of tens of thousands of books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, paintings, artifacts, and other historical materials. The Society maintains its research library and John Brown House Museum in Providence and operates the Museum of Work & Culture in Woonsocket. The Society’s ongoing public and educational programming includes publication of the historical journal Rhode Island History and the presentation of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and tours. www.rihs.org <http://www.rihs.org/>
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