During March School Vacation Students Can Enjoy History Tours
During March vacation, students on school break don’t need to take a break from learning. Families can enjoy the Pirates and Scoundrels history walking tour and a historic site tour with a costumed guide.
On the Pirates and Scoundrels history walking tour, see where scoundrels lived, where pirates profited and where criminals were put on trial and punished. Find out why this colony was sometimes known as “Rogue’s Island.” This tour will be offered on Friday March 19th and Friday March 26th at 11:30am. It lasts approximately 75 minutes and costs $12 per person, $10 for NHS members.
Step inside the c.1697 Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, the oldest museum house in Newport, and step back in time. A costumed guide will discuss the house’s unique history and share stories about its inhabitants. The tour will be offered on Thursday March 18th and Thursday March 25th. at 11:30 and lasts approximately 30 minutes. It costs $5 per person, $3 for children under the age of twelve, and is free for NHS members.
All tours depart from the Museum & Shop at Brick Market, 127 Thames Street, Newport, RI. Reservations recommended as space is limited. To make reservations call: 401-871-8770.
February 13th starting at 11am
Test your knowledge of historic Newport on a history hunt in and around Washington Square. This 20 question family-friendly hunt tracks colonial Newport sites and trivia. The first five submissions with correct answers win prizes. One prize per family.
Maps cost $3 per family, $1 with Newport Winter Festival button, and are complimentary for NHS members. Purchase maps at the Museum & Shop at Brick Market. 401-841-8770
August 13- 15, 2010
Presenting Sponsor: William Vareika Fine Arts, Ltd.
At St. George’s School in Middletown, the Newport Antiques Show brings the country’s leading antiques dealers to Rhode Island in an event which supports the Historical Society and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County.
Gala Preview Party: Friday, August 13, 6 – 9PM
www.newportantiquesshow.com
Thursday, May 6th 2010
Rhode Island was a chocolate center of the American colonies. Rabbi Deborah Prinz will discuss cacao in the colonial period and the pioneering role that Jewish merchants played in the trade, retail and production of chocolate.
Thursday May 6th 6pm
Colony House, Washington Square
Record of chocolate grinding, Lopez Account Book, 1768
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D., Senior Curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, will discuss the unique nature of scrimshaw of Rhode Island including pieces that are in the collections of the Newport Historical Society. The program will conclude with scrimshaw appraisal by Dr. Frank and two members of his Scrimshaw Forensics Laboratory® team, Richard Donnelly and Dr. Vasant Gideon. Attendees are encouraged to bring articles from their own collections for review.
Thursday, April 29, 2010 6pm
Colony House, Washington Square
Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900
Saturday, February 20, 2010
From Adam Lambert’s spikes to Amy Winehouse’s piled-high beehive, today’s fashionable hairstyles may seem new and unique, but many are actually rooted in history. In this lecture, author Maureen Taylor (Fashionable Folks: Hairstyles 1840-1900) uses old photographs to show how hairstyles and facial hair changed throughout the 19th century.
Admission costs $5 a person, $4 with the Newport Winter Festival button, and $1 for NHS members.
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Location: Colony House, Washington Square, Newport, RI
Sponsored in part by The Digital Ark, Newport, RI.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
This talk presents an interdisciplinary study of a mid-18th-century Newport woman—widow and shopkeeper Elizabeth Pratt. Widow Pratt’s home is now part of the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard historic and archaeological site, owned by the Newport Historical Society.
Thousands of excavated artifact fragments and documentary evidence from merchant and court records provide an intimate perspective on the Pratt household’s material world and daily activities. Pratt lived during a time when Newporters of all social stations were united by new consumer possibilities, economic opportunities, and social uncertainties. The Consumer Revolution brought mass production and mass markets. People all over the British Empire shared in a burgeoning World of Goods, especially in urban trading centers like Newport. Shop keeping was a new opportunity for literally and figuratively fashioning identities, relationships, and values. Trading transformed Pratt’s life and her social relationships, as it transformed her broader world.
This program has been generously sponsored by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Location: Colony House, Washington Square, Newport, RI
Through December 22, 2009
Celebrate the authentic history of winter holidays on a lantern-lit stroll through Colonial Newport’s streets, and visit the 1697 Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House.
The one hour tour is held on Fridays at 5pm starting November 13th running through December 18th and costs $12 per person, $10 for NHS members. Tour departs from the Museum & Shop at Brick Market, 127 Thames Street. Reservations strongly suggested. 401-841-8770
A December 22nd tour at 5pm has been added by popular demand!
Eden's Outcasts
December 3, 2009
John Matteson, the author of Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott & Her Father – and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in biography – will discuss the Alcotts, Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne and others. Presented by the Redwood Library and the Newport Historical Society.
Date: December 3
Time: 6pm
Location: The Redwood Library
Newport was a den of colonial-era piracy.
Saturday, February 20, 2009, 11:30AM
Museum & Shop at Brick Market
See where scoundrels lived, where pirates made a living, and where criminals were put to trial and punished. Find out why this colony was sometimes known as Rogue’s Island on a 75 minute walking tour.
Reservations are strongly encouraged.
