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 willRead More...

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 theRead More...

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 hawkRead More...

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, isRead More...

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 onRead More...

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 andRead More...

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 IslandRead More...

YOUR LAST VISIT FOR THE SEASON Kim Peranzi teaching at Hornbine School  The Hornbine School Museum is a one room school house (1846 – 1937) LOCATED at 144 Hornbine Road in Rehoboth. We will be open for the last time this season between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. this Sunday. FOLLOW us on Facebook atRead More...