RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events

Exhibit: Rhode Island in the Time of Lincoln
Aldrich House
110 Benevolent Street, Providence
For more information: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
Open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

The RIHS will continue celebrating the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln’s birth with an exhibit that takes a look at life in Rhode Island during the 1860s. Though Lincoln made only two stops in RI, they were widely attended and remembered. But what did the RI that Lincoln visited look like?
Rhode Island in the Time of Lincoln will remain on exhibit Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. through the spring.  

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Sunday, March 8, 1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
Tickets: $10 each
For more information: Anne Conway
(401) 769-9675 or aconway@rihs.org
 
Salute to Spring Celebration!
The Museum of Work & Culture is delighted to host its annual “Salute to Spring.” This fun-filled celebration will feature a concert by Woonsocket’s own jazz musician/singer Daryl Sherman. A living history presentation “Play Ball,” written by local historian Raymond Bacon, will make its debut and will be performed several times. Pat Perry from Sneak Peek Productions will also be presenting a new program called “Crime & Punishment.” The event marks the end of the annual appeal and a raffle will be drawn. The grand prize is a trip for two to Montreal (a 4 day/3 night motor tour) donated by Conway Tours. Tickets are $10 each and are available at the Museum of Work & Culture. Ticket sales are limited to 200 and are expected to sell out quickly.

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Thursday, March 12, 6:30 p.m.
Library Talk
Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope Street, Providence
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P: Lee Teverow
(401) 273-8107 x10 or lteverow@rihs.org
 
Joseph K. Angell, Samuel Ames, and the First American Treatise on Corporate Law
Kevin Butterfield, Ph.D. candidate at Washington University, will give a brief look at the genesis and impact of the first treatise on corporate law in the United States, published by two Rhode Island lawyers. Butterfield received a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium award to continue work on his dissertation, “Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the early American Republic,” which he is researching partly at the RIHS Library.

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Saturday, March 14, 11:00 a.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
For more information and R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
 
Celebrating H.P. Lovecraft: A Literary Walk
Today’s walking tour celebrates the life and work of Providence native and author Howard Phillips Lovecraft to mark the anniversary of his death. Acknowledged genius of occult and horror fiction, Lovecraft’s “Providence stories” (written between 1924 and 1935) provide the basis for this walk. $12 per person; tour lasts ninety minutes.