The local “giveaway” magazines, “The Bay” and “Hey Rhody“, featured the Sowams Heritage Area Project in their October 2024 editions. Author Abbie Lahmers interviewed Project Advisor Andrea Rounds and Project Coordinator Dr. David Weed for the four-page feature article that describes the project that is working to bring the early history of the Sowams region […]

Thanks to an allocation from the State of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Council on the Humanities (RICH) announced the inaugural awardees of the THRIVE general operating support grantmaking program. THRIVE provides funding for small cultural heritage organizations and local historical and preservation societies that support and strengthen Rhode Island’s many diverse, dynamic communities. In […]

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More than 130 people attended the Community Conversations presented by the Sowams Heritage Area Project at the Seekonk Public Library, in Seekonk, MA on March 26, 2024, and Mt. Hope Farm in Bristol, RI on March 27, 2024. Both events were packed with people from the region known as Sowams, the ancestral homeland of the […]

Rock Singewald (pictured right) and Dave Weed (not pictured) of the Sowams Heritage Area Project Steering Committee met with (left to right) Dan Lanier and Carol Entin of the Rehoboth Land Trust, Whole Rivers Program Director Otter Brown, and Friends of the Palmer River President Katy Rourke Wilson on February 29, 2024 to consider the […]

The Pokanoket Tribe was included in a list of tribes acknowledged by Danikah Chartier, a member of the Abenaki Tribe and a staff member of Historic New England, at the opening of the Historic New England Summit held in Providence on November 2nd and 3rd, 2023, at the Veterans’ Memorial Auditorium. Her land acknowledgement begins […]

East Providence Mayor Bob DaSilva led a public workshop on October 16, 2023 at City Hall to solicit opinions for a proposed East Providence Cultural Center to be built at Hunt’s Mills with amenities that include a reception area, presentation space, exhibit areas, bathrooms and a conference room. Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator Dr. David […]