RI Historical Society -- Upcoming Events

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.: Barbara Barnes
(401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@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.

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Sunday, March 15, 1:30 p.m.
Museum of Work & Culture
42 South Main Street, Woonsocket
Free Admission, To R.S.V.P.: Ray Bacon
(401) 769-9675 or rbacon@rihs.org                
 
Ranger Days
In conjunction with the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, the Museum of Work & Culture presents the last Ranger Days of the year. Today, URI Professor Scott Molloy will speak on his new book, Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and 19th Century New England Labor, the story of Banigan’s rise as Rhode Island’s first Irish millionaire and founder of the U.S. Rubber Company.

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Thursday, March 19, 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 … Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander: “The Girl of My Dreams”
Join us in welcoming photographer Stacy Renee Morrison to the first Gallery Night and If These Walls Could Talk lecture of the year! In 2005, Morrison received a grant from the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities the girl of my dreams project, which has been exhibited in Italy and the Fine Arts Center Gallery at URI. The girl of Morrison’s dreams is Sylvia DeWolf Ostrander, whose 19th century trunk she stumbled upon in Manhatten. Morrison would later discover that Sylvia was born in Rhode Island, and related to the DeWolf family of Bristol. Morrison will share her work from the past several years discovering and reconstructing Sylvia’s life and how the journey has influenced her artistically.


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At the Providence Public Library…

The Gardner Heist Author Ulrich Boser to Visit PPL, Central Library March 16

Following the February 24 release of his new book The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft, Providence Public Library will welcome author Ulrich Boser on Monday, March 16 from 6:00 - 7:30 PM for a book signing, reading, and discussion at the Central Library, 150 Empire Street, Barnard Room (3rd Floor).  The event is sponsored by the Dartmouth Alumni Club of Providence.

Tonia Mason
Phone: 401-455-8090
tmason@provlib.org