2026 – Revolutionary Little Compton

Explore the online exhibit materials: Exhibit Panels on Bloomberg Connects

Learn more about the Revolutionary War in Little Compton in a new website Little Compton’s Revolutionary Veterans. This interactive website details the lives and service of 590 people — veterans, their widows, witnesses, and more — based on applications submitted for a pension after the war. Explore individual lives, battles, and the landscape of eighteenth-century Little Compton in the words of people who were there. 

Publication: “Remembering the Revolution: Little Compton, Rhode Island” by Steven Lubar

2025-2026 – Sakonnet Belongings

Publications: “Reconnections” Volume 1 and 2

Online Exhibit materials: Exhibit Items on Bloomberg Connects and Awashonks’ Garden on Bloomberg Connects

Explore Awashonks’ Garden: Free and Open to the Public, Open Every Day from Sunrise to Sunset

Previous Special Exhibitions:

2024 – Little Compton, Connected – Transportation history – Research, exhibit, lecture

2023 – Inspired Craft – Juried show – crafts inspired by historic items in our collection

2022 – The Stories Houses Tell – Research and Publication

2021 – Everyone Was a Farmer – New permanent farming exhibit, project website

2020 – Little Compton Women’s History Project – Outdoor Exhibit Panels and Project Website

2019 – Little Compton: A Changing Landscape – Publication and Exhibit

2018 – Remember Me: Little Compton’s 46 cemeteries – Publication and exhibit

2017 – Little Compton’s 20th Century Artists – Essays and exhibit

2016 – If Jane Should Want to Be Sold: Stories of Slavery – Publication and Exhibit

2015 – Historic House Tour – Publication, Exhibit, and House tours