Project Budget: $15,000
Raised to date: $10,000
The Newport Historical Society is producing a 20 minute video that highlights the unique story of Colonial Newport. “An American Experiment” discusses, and illustrates Newport’s origins in religious strife and the establishment of religious tolerance as civic policy, our commercial “Golden Age” in the mid-18th century, and the important events that happened here during the build-up to the American Revolution. Women, Jews, Quakers and enslaved Africans all played a role in the formation of this community. The video will be complete this summer, and will be free to Rhode Island high schools and sold to the public. Funds are needed for final editing and reproduction.
1776 Blaskowitz Map of Newport
Support for this project has been provided by the Newport County Fund, Rhode Island Foundation & BankNewport.