The 11th Annual Neutaconkanut Hill Conservancy Fall Festival on Neutaconkanut Hill was held on October 12, 2019, from Noon to 4:00 p.m. at the Hilltop Meadow on Legion Memorial Drive. Members of the Providence Police Department Mounted Unit rode two Clydesdales onto the Meadow where people are gathered to hear music by Michael Wendoloski and roast marshmallows over […]
Anne DiMonti, Director of the Audubon Society of Rhode Island Nature Center and Aquarium in Bristol, RI, invited Dr. David Weed to give a talk on Native and colonial history of the area on October 11, 2019. Dr. Weed took the audience back to the 17th century when enormous changes took place involving the encounter between […]
Public Archaeology Laboratory Project Archaeologist Erin Flynn spoke about her work in and around Swansea, MA to members the Swansea Historical Society on October 9, 2019. Historical Society president Carl Becker introduced Erin, who grew up in Swansea, to the Society members at one of their monthly meetings held at Christ Church in Swansea. Erin […]
The 18th century Maxwell House on Water Street in Warren, RI was the venue for a presentation on the Sowams Heritage Area Project by Coordinator Dave Weed on October 8, 2019. Dr. Weed began by describing how the remains of the Massasoit Ousamequin, who met the Pilgrims in 1621, were returned to an ancient royal Pokanoket […]
East Providence Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Laura McNamara introduced Dr. David Weed at the first event of the Watchemoket Square Day in the Tockwotton Theatre. He gave a 45-minute talk about the relationship between the Pokanoket Tribe and the English Pilgrims during the 17th century that supported half a century of peace. Weed talked […]
Visitor Services Supervisor and Rhode Island College Adjunct Professor of Communication, Jim Lopes, (left) invited Dr. David Weed, Project Coordinator for the Sowams Heritage Area to speak at the Heritage State Park “Lunch Meets Lecture” series on October 2, 2019. Dr. Weed spoke in the Visitor’s Center auditorium for about an hour about the Project […]
Winslow Point in Assonet, MA on the east side of the Taunton River is the likely place that Pilgrim Edward Winslow likely crossed the River in July, 1621 on his way from Plymouth to Sowams, the home of the Massasoit Ousamequin. In July, 1675, King Philip of the Pokanokets and Queen Weetamoo of the Pocasset […]
The Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence, Rhode Island on September 28th and 29th, was the venue of the annual Big Drum Powwow, the culmination of the annual New England Native American Culture Week. It is hosted by Eastern Medicine Cultural LLC, in conjunction with sponsors, National Park Service and the Rhode Island State Council of the […]
A day-long seminar on the life and works of Roger Williams and the continued relevance of his ideas was held at Smith’s Castle in North Kingston, RI, on September 28, 2019. Author, Educator and Director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI, Lorén Spears, offers an Indigenous blessing in word and song at the start […]
The Providence Cultural Equity Initiative organized the 10th Annual New England Native American Culture Week during the last week of September 2019 which included a Drum Social, the Big Drum Powwow and a presentation on September 26th on Quaiapen, a female Sachem who was killed defending her territories in King Philip’s War. Raymond Two Hawks Watson, […]