Director’s Note: May 2014

May 13, 2014

What I learned at the Spectacle of Toleration The Spectacle of Toleration project is pretty much wrapped up. In the fall of 2015, we ...

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History Bytes: Frances the Falconer’s Daughter

May 12, 2014

Frances (Latham) Dungan Clarke Vaughan (c. 1610-1677) of Bedfordshire was the daughter of Sir Lewis Latham, Lord Falconer to King Charles I. She came ...

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History Bytes: Edna Villa

May 8, 2014

In 1891 the heirs of the late Isaac Bell, Jr. sold their Bellevue Avenue cottage to Samuel F. Barger of New York, who named ...

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History Bytes: Here Come the Eastons

May 1, 2014

On 1 May 1639, the Easton family arrived in Newport by boat from Portsmouth, RI. Peter Easton scribbled “we came to Newport” in the ...

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