{"id":837,"date":"2020-04-19T14:32:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T14:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2020-04-19T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T14:32:50","slug":"museum-of-work-culture-launches-virtual-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dodgemillmuseum.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Museum of Work & Culture Launches Virtual Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE TRIPLE DECKER<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Popular Valley Talks Find New Home Online and Kick-off with Triple Decker Documentary<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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WOONSOCKET, R.I. \u2013\u00a0Valley Talks, a popular series of biweekly historical lectures presented by the Museum of Work & Culture, finds a new home online beginning Wednesday, April 22 at 4pm.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The new virtual series will kick-off with\u00a0Triple Deckers: A New England Love Story, a talk and screening by\u00a0documentary filmmaker\u00a0Marc Levitt.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Levitt will share his \u201cin progress\u201d documentary\u00a0Triple Deckers: A New England Love Story, exploring how the iconic three story homes helped to create the first US suburbs, forged a multi-cultural, mixed gender American Industrial working class and through their architectural DNA helped to make a country where its citizens understood that their well being and that of their neighbors were interdependent.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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All events are free and take place on alternating Wednesdays at 4pm. Register by emailing\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

mowc@rihs.org<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Levitt, documentary filmmaker, author, educational consultant, and storyteller, has made two films,\u00a0Woven in Time, about the \u201cdiscovered\u201d pre-contact Native village in Narragansett, RI and\u00a0Stories in Stone, a story of the Narragansett\u2019s stonewall building tradition.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Marc has also written and published three books about education theory, written and performed a number of one person plays, was the host\/co-producer of a national radio show, Action Speaks, Under-Appreciated Dates That Changed America and a comedy radio show, The New England Chowda\u2019 Hour\/Blue Bug Radio Cabaret. He has also worked throughout the United States and in 75 countries in Europe, South America, Central America, Asia and Africa as an Educational Consultant\/Lecturer\/Storyteller.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Other Virtual Valley Talks will include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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May 6: Filmmaker\u00a0Christian de Rezendes\u00a0offers a preview of his historical documentary series\u00a0Slatersville: America’s First Mill Village\u00a0highlighting the French-Canadian portion of the story.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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May 20:\u00a0Writer & Providence College Professor Emeritus\u00a0Norman Desmarais\u00a0presents insights from his book\u00a0Untold Stories from World War II Rhode Island.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Additional dates forthcoming.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE TRIPLE DECKER Popular Valley Talks Find New Home Online and Kick-off with Triple Decker Documentary \u00a0\u00a0 WOONSOCKET, R.I. \u2013\u00a0Valley Talks, a popular series of biweekly historical lectures presented by the Museum of Work & Culture, finds a new home online beginning Wednesday, April 22 at 4pm. The new virtual series will kick-off with\u00a0Triple Deckers:<\/p>\n

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