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https://newporthistory.org/event/nht-april/Alexander Bice, MA graduate, Northeastern University, is one of the 2021 Buchanan Burnham Fellows working on capturing data from the NHS archives on Black and Indigenous people of color in colonial Newport, Rhode Island. The following post relates to the logbook of the Snow Greyhound, a ship that was engaged in the transport of enslaved […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-the-log-of-the-greyhound/The Town and Country Club was founded in 1871 by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Julia Ward Howe as a response to the more frivolous entertainments of Newport’s summer colony, “lest the Newport season should entirely evaporate into the shallow pursuit of amusement,” in Howe’s words. The group comprised Newport’s cultural elite and met to discuss […]
https://newporthistory.org/history-bytes-thomas-wentworth-higginson-writer-intellectual/What did people eat in colonial Newport? Join costumed interpreters as they discuss various foods that were commonly found in the 18th century. Learn how ladies would take tea and treats, how soldiers’ foods were rationed, and why children would not eat chocolate. This program takes place at the Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, 17 Broadway, Newport, RI. […]
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