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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:LCHS Annual Meeting\n\n\n \nWednesday\, August 14\, 7 PM\n\n\n \nFree and Open to the Public\n\n\n \nAt the United Congregational Church\, 4 South of Commons Rd\, Little Compton\n\n\n \nFeaturing Steven Lubar’s Presentation\, “Little Compton: Connected and Unconnected”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Little Compton Historical Society will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday\, August 14 at 7 pm at the United Congregational Church on the Commons. The event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nAfter a 15-minute business meeting and the election of officers and board members\, Little Compton Historical Society Board President Steven Lubar will present a slide lecture on how it was that Little Compton came to seem “so far away.” \n\n\n\nMention Little Compton\, and you get two responses. “It’s so beautiful.” And\, “It’s so far.” The first is certainly true. But the second? Why do we think of Little Compton as being far away? One of the first to claim that the town was hard to get to was Sarah Helen Whitman\, a Providence poet and frequent visitor. In 1869 she writes of her summer in the town\, noting its “charm of remoteness” and sighing\, “So near\, yet\, oh\, how far.” She compared the town to Walden\, and Shangri-La. This talk will trace the history of the idea of Little Compton as an isolated\, distant place\, exploring the way it shaped the development of the town.
URL:https://littlecompton.org/event/12843/
LOCATION:United Congregational Church of Little Compton\, 1 Commons\, Little Compton\, RI\, 02837\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults' Programs,Lecture Series,Programs and Events,Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Kristine Gagnon Aguiar":MAILTO:programs@littlecompton.org
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SUMMARY:Steamboating to Sakonnet Point\, a talk given by Jim Garman
DESCRIPTION:Jim Garman is the official Town Historian for the town of Portsmouth. He had a long career as a teacher at Portsmouth Abbey School and as a professional photographer. He has an extensive collection of vintage photographs and postcard images of Newport County. He is the author of six books on Newport County history. For almost 50 years he has frequently lectured on topics of interest to Newport County residents.\n\nThis talk will be on the steamboats that ran from Providence to Sakonnet Point and back in the late 19th- early 20th centuries. The steamboats hauled fresh fish and farm produce to market and day-trippers rode each way. It was a fascinating era of local travel and history and the presentation will be well-illustrated.
URL:https://littlecompton.org/event/steamboating-to-sakonnet-point-a-talk-given-by-jim-garman/
LOCATION:United Congregational Church of Little Compton\, 1 Commons\, Little Compton\, RI\, 02837\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults' Programs,Lecture Series,Programs and Events,Special Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Kristine Gagnon Aguiar":MAILTO:programs@littlecompton.org
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SUMMARY:The Brownells: American Rose Pioneers
DESCRIPTION:Free and Open to the Public\nCo-Sponsored by:\nThe Little Compton Garden Club\nThe Little Compton Historical Society\nThe Sogkonate Garden Club\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the early 1900s\, Walter and Josephine Brownell of Little Compton became trail blazers in the early development of winter hardy and disease resistant roses.  Learn how a young attorney and his wife\, and later their sons\, introduced more than 80 varieties of roses over 35 years.  These became known as Sub-Zero roses and were sold throughout the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s.  This presentation follows the Brownells’ pioneer development of sustainable roses in Little Compton\, RI and explains how they successfully created varieties with a distinctly American character to satisfy the unmet needs of the colder regions of the country.  A century later\, Sub-Zero roses remain popular and their legacy continues to influence contemporary rose breeders. \nThis lecture will be held on Tuesday\, March 19 at 7 PM at the United Congregational Church in Little Compton\, RI.  The address there is 1 Commons St\, Little Compton RI\, 02837.
URL:https://littlecompton.org/event/the-brownells-american-rose-pioneers-2/
LOCATION:United Congregational Church of Little Compton\, 1 Commons\, Little Compton\, RI\, 02837\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults' Programs,Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Little Compton Historical Society Annual Meeting Featuring Primus' House: History and Archaeology in Little Compton\, Holly Herbster
DESCRIPTION:7:00 Business Meeting — Church Sanctuary\n7:15 Speaker: Holly Herbster\, Senior Archaeologist at The Public Archaeology Laboratory\, Inc.\n8:00 Reception — Church Vestry \nRegister for the Zoom link here if you’d like to attend virtually. \nPrimus’ House: History and Archaeology in Little Compton \n \nThe Public Archaeology Laboratory\, Inc. (PAL) has teamed with the Little Compton Historical Society (LCHS) for a second collaborative project to document the history of Black and Indigenous families in Little Compton\, Rhode Island. The property is owned by the Nature Conservancy and was the home of Primus Collins\, a freed person of color who purchased the property on Meeting House Lane from Nathaniel Church in 1836. Primus’ daughter Lucy Collins remained in the house until her death in 1893. The land known as the Church-Collins-Nicholson Property includes a cellar hole\, remnant outbuilding foundations\, and associated fieldstone wall networks. In 2021 PAL conducted an archaeological survey at the Collins Site\, with testing focused around the cellar hole\, yard areas\, well\, and foundations. The survey was designed to help answer questions about the date of house construction and augment the documentary history of the Collins family researched by LCHS Executive Director and historian Marjory O’Toole. The archaeological fieldwork and laboratory processing were completed with PAL archaeologists and volunteer LCHS and community members. \nJoin PAL Senior Archaeologist Holly Herbster and LCHS’ Marjory O’Toole as they share the history of land use on the property and the results of the 2021 archaeological investigations. Learn what the documentary record and the archaeological data tell us (and don’t tell us) about the Collins family\, about the ancient history of this part of Little Compton\, and how this information is being used to help interpret one of two sites in Little Compton that are known to have been associated with eighteenth and nineteenth-century Afro-Indigenous families. \nThe Secrets of Cellar Holes project was funded in large part by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
URL:https://littlecompton.org/event/little-compton-historical-society-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:United Congregational Church of Little Compton\, 1 Commons\, Little Compton\, RI\, 02837\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults' Programs,Lecture Series,Special Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Marjory O'Toole":MAILTO:lchistory@littlecompton.org
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