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October 2023

Thu 19
Featured Featured October 19, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Newport Historical Society Annual Meeting

Colony House Washington Square, Newport, RI, United States

Join us for our 2023 Annual Meeting to learn more about what the NHS has accomplished this year, and to discuss our plans for the future! NHS will also be […]

Fri 20
Featured Featured October 20, 2023 @ 10:00 am - October 28, 2023 @ 2:00 pm

Charting History: Navigating the Currents of Rhode Island’s Past

Colony House Washington Square, Newport, RI, United States

Friday October 20-Saturday October 28, 10am to 2pm The Colony House Washington Square, Newport Charting History is a traveling panel exhibition that tells one cohesive, chronological, and thematic narrative of […]

Tue 24
Featured Featured October 24, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Boston Tea Party 250th – A Panel Talk with Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Stacy Schiff and Best-Selling Author Brooke Barbier

Colony House Washington Square, Newport, RI, United States

Tuesday October 24, 2023 from 6pm – 7:30pm Colony House, Washington Square, Newport, RI Admission $15 - $20 per person Charter Books and the Newport Historical Society commemorate the 250th […]

$15 – $20

November 2023

Wed 1
Featured Featured November 1, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

For the complete November tour schedule, please visit NewportHistoryTours.org

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Wed 1
Featured Featured November 1, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Richard Potter, America’s First Black Celebrity: A Talk with Scholar John Hodgeson

NHS Resource Center 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI

Wednesday November 1, 2023 at 6:30pm; doors open at 5:30pm Apart from a handful of tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, […]

$20
Fri 3
Featured Featured November 3, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Exhibit opening — Waves of Discovery: 18th and 19th Century Seafaring Science

NHS Resource Center 82 Touro Street, Newport, RI

Please join us for the opening of NHS' fall exhibit Waves of Discovery: 18th and 19th Century Seafaring Science. Excellence in maritime navigation quickly became essential to the economic success […]

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