Sowams Heritage Area Team Member Helen Hersh Tjader presented a one-hour talk on “Sowams – The Untold Story” at the East Providence Public Library. Emphasizing the wonderful natural resources of the land and water in the area, Helen told the story of how the land has been transformed into the communities we see today. She […]
History professor Burton Van Edwards began a presentation about Old Barrington Village with a description of the earliest days of the town, starting with the Wannamoisett Purchase of 1641 from Massasoit. Using an excellent series of maps, he went on to detail the many changes that took place over the next century that resulted in […]
Bristol Historical and Preservation Society President Dory Skemp and Executive Director Dr. Catherine Zipf met with Sowams Heritage Area Coordiantor Dr. David Weed to outline how the Society can join the effort to discover the 17th century in Bristol and seven other communities. The town is home to at least four present-day locations with direct ties […]
Birch Swamp Road resident and Providence College faculty member Dr. Keith Morton (left) and Barrington physicain Charles McCoy, MD, (right) invited Sowams Heritage Area Team Members Greg Spiess (center), Helen Hersh Tjader and Dave Weed to walk to Margaret’s Cave and hike through the nearby property owned by Dr. McCoy that was the likely site of the Massasoit’s […]
Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator Dave Weed met with the board of the Warren Preservation Society to request that they serve as the fiscal agent for a Rhode Island Council for the Humanities mini-grant that will be submitted at the end of April. If approved, the grant will fund an initial launch of the project […]
Author and ethnographic consultant Julie A. Fisher led students at Roger Williams University in an exercise in deciphering the 17th century writing of Roger Williams before giving a presentation on her book, Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts. RWU History Professor Dr. Charlotte Carrington-Farmer also invited Roger Williams Memorial Park Ranger John McNiff to […]
East Providence Historical Society President Nancy Moore met with Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator Dave Weed to talk over upcoming plans. Ms. Moore laid out upcoming plans for the Historical Society over the coming summer so that Dr. Weed could coordinate plans for a public launch of the Sowams Heritage Area later in the summer. […]
Ernie Germani, webmaster for the Trails and Walks RI web site and Vice Chair of the East Providence Conservation Commission, led a guided hike around the grounds at Hunts Mills along with the Ten Mile River Watershed Council on April 8, 2018. The event coincided with the Hunts Mills open house that takes place on the […]
Sowams Heritage Area Team Member David Weed recently met with Joetta Kirk, owner of Chace Farm in Warren, RI. The farm dates back to 1697 when King George granted a charter and has only had three family owners. The farm’s 178 acres includes the site of Wigwam Hill (pictured behind Dave and Joetta), an historic […]
The Swansea Historical Society Board heard a presentation by Sowams Team Member David Weed about the Heritage Area project at one of their regular monthly meetings. President Carl Becker and board members Maureen O’Brian, Joanne Johnson and Carol Gafford learned how the project started and heard about eight locations in Swansea that have been described […]