Pop Up Art Show Westport, MA October 10, 11 and 12 New Work by Cali Almy and Whitmore Boogaerts Here is some info: October 10, 11, 12 10 to 5 pm The Show is outside with plenty of space Safety First! 1138 Horseneck Road Westport, MA 02790 A Lovely Location! 401-297-9389 Find Out More
FBP Receives $100,000 Grant to “Take It Outside” Festival Ballet Providence (FBP) is proud to announce a once in a generation project for a time like no other. On October 1, 2020, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo and RI Commerce announced Festival Ballet is the recipient of a $100,000 grant award to fund the creation of a temporary outdoor performing arts
OUR LOCAL WILD WEST BY DON DOUCETTE WOODCOCK HOUSE NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH John Woodcock’s fortress outpost in the northern Ten Mile River Watershed, William Blackstone’s remote Study Hill in Lonsdale, the Bucklin family and the Daggett family as neighbors and a few others homesteading the Rehoboth Plain, the Newman Ring of the Green settlement in old
FROG POND CLEAN-UP Good Afternoon, Friends of the Ten Mile and Bucklin Brook will be conducting a cleanup this coming Sunday, October 4th at 8:00 AM. We will be meeting at the Doreen Tomlinson Baseball Field on Daggett Avenue in Pawtucket and will be cleaning the area around the small pond. This cleanup will
SSHSA DROPS ANCHOR IN WARWICK FOR FIRST PERMANENT HOME Maritime nonprofit completes purchase of former NEIT library After decades adrift at sea, the Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA) and its extensive collection of maritime images, artifacts, periodicals, artwork, official records and memorabilia finally have a port to call home. Last month, SSHSA completed the
TRAILING THE HAWKS BY DON DOUCETTE I must comment to you that Friends of the Ten Mile and Bucklin Brook successfully concluded this morning our three part Saturday morning walk/talk series: WHERE IS BUCKLIN BROOK? Of particular note was our successive red tail hawk observations throughout the urbanized Bucklin Brook Watershed – extremely active hawk
Rhode Island Historical Society Launches Free Classrooms Exploring the Relevance of History in Current Events (PROVIDENCE, R.I.) – The Rhode Island Historical Society is excited to launch a free new series of Turnkey Google Classrooms for Rhode Island educators, distance learning families and homeschoolers. Then & Now: The Relevance of History in Current Events, is
Museum of Work & Culture Offers Virtual Children’s Baking Workshop with Wright’s Dairy & Bakery WOONSOCKET, R.I. – The Museum of Work & Culture will offer its annual Children’s Baking Workshop with Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery this year in a virtual format with curbside pickup bakers kits. This year’s workshop will be held on
THERE’S A LOOM IN YOUR LAPTOP The beating heart of your computer is a wooden loom designed over two hundred years ago. Imagine this article as a 1950s educational cartoon. A mad scientist with crazy hair and a white coat opening up a computer to reveal a vast wooden loom inside – crashing and
Museum & Public Library Offer Free Educational Reading Challenge for Students & Families The Museum of Work and Culture and the Woonsocket Harris Public Library are excited to announce the start of their first Rhode Island History Reading Challenge for students and families from across the region. Beanstack is the platform for our new Rhode Island