Saturday, April 25, 10:00 a.m.
Tour departs from the
John Brown House Museum
52 Power Street, Providence
To R.S.V.P.: Dalila Goulart
(401) 331-8575 x45 or programs@rihs.org
African-American History Walking Tour
This walking tour celebrates the history of African Americans who lived on College Hill from 1701 to the present. Ray Rickman, a well known community leader, will lead a lively discussion and offer his perspective on the people and historic buildings of Providence's oldest neighborhood. Tickets are $10 per person; tour lasts about ninety minutes. Reservations are requested.
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Thursday, May 7, 6:30 p.m.
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
Lecture: Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War
Megan Kate Nelson, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Research Award recipient, will discuss her book project, Ruin Nation: The Destruction of the South and the Making of America during the Civil War Era. Nelson will explain how and why Americans destroyed southern cities, plantations, forests, and men, and how both soldiers and civilians responded to these different kinds of ruins. She will also talk about the challenges of investigating the environmental history of the Civil War, and the importance that letters and diaries of New Englanders play in her research. Nelson received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Iowa and is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton.
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Wednesday, May 13, 12:00 noon
Free, Contact: Barbara Barnes
(401) 273-7507 x62 or bbarnes@rihs.org
Downcity Alive! Spring Has Sprung Downcity!
Join us on 45-minute noon time walks sponsored by the Providence Foundation and Rhode Island Historical Society that are free and open to all! They are discovery tours for those who work, shop and walk downtown at lunch time. Today, come find out what the summer has in store and what's new on Westminster and Weybosset Streets.
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At the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association…
You are cordially invited to attend the
Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting of the
Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
Jewish Community Center
401 Elmgrove Avenue, Providence
Bernard P. Fishman
Executive Director of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Will deliver the Thirty-ninth David Charak Adelman Lecture
“From Egypt to Rhode Island: What 30 Years in History Museums
Tells Me about the Future of the Past”
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