Sponsorship: Corporate Patrons
Newport Historical Society Corporate Patrons
Newport County businesses know that the health of our local economy is tied to history: Newport’s historic character draws thousands of visitors to our city every year.
And Newport history is the business of the Newport Historical Society. We invite you to join with other area businesses as a Corporate Patron of the Historical Society’s popular programs and lectures. In return, Corporate Patrons are promoted in all marketing and PR efforts connected with the sponsored program, and receive free advertising in the journal Newport History, an annual Corporate Membership and listing in the Society’s Annual Report.
Corporate Patronage helps to defray the cost of guest speakers’ honoraria and expenses, and program marketing. Our Corporate Patrons benefit from partnering with the Historical Society, with brand association and access to our members and friends, and help to ensure that the Newport cultural community continues to benefit from the Society’s programs promoting Newport history.
Sponsors of recent programs include:
○ Fine Catering by Russell Morin
○ Houlihan, Managhan and Kyle, LLP
○ House Newport
○ Newport Restaurant Group
○ Newport Scrimshanders
○ The Digital Ark
○ Walker Interiors
Recent programs include:
○ Best selling author Eve LaPlante, speaking about her book American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, October 2009
○ Hollywood film consultant and textiles expert Rabbit Goody, November 2009
○ Artist, calligrapher, author Margaret Shepherd speaking on early American letter writing, September 2009
○ The Naked Quaker, a program on colonial era crimes with author Diane Rapaport, April 2009
○ America’s Founding Foods, the history of New England cooking with the husband and wife team of Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald,
○ Fashioning Her World: A Shopkeeping Widow in 18th Century Newport on artifacts unearthed at the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, with Christina Hodge, PhD, January 2010
○ Rooted in History, a program about the evolution of 19th century hairstyles with author Maureen Taylor, February 2010
○ Scrimshaw of Rhode Island, with Stuart Frank, PhD, April 2010
