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Welcome to the Providence 375 Celebration! Back in the spring of 1636, Roger Williams was ordered banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for his heretical ideas of separating church and state. Before he could be sentenced, he slipped away into the wilderness. He was deeded land by the Narragansett Sachems Cononicus and Miantonomo and founded Providence as a safe harbor for new ideas and all religions. This laid the groundwork for a dynamic city to rise up along the banks of the rivers that converged around it. Roger Williams founded Providence on the ideals of freedom, hope and ingenuity, and understood that paying respect to the roots of the place were contingent on building the future. For 375 years, the city has been a cradle of radical thinking, creativity and dynamic civic dialogue. It has grown as a city of immigrants and intellects. It is a place where all are welcome and any idea is worth exploring.
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The City of Providence is proud to be partnering with the Roger Williams National Park, the Providence/Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau, RI Council for the Humanities, Providence Monthly and a wide array of non-profit organizations to celebrate. From June to October there will be well over 200 events commemorating the legacy of Roger Williams. At a time when our city faces some of its greatest challenges, this birthday celebration is a wonderful way to look back at our history and take stock in our city’s future. I hope you will join me in the celebration and in all the work we have ahead.
roots 3 The Arrival of Roger Williams 4 The Role of Native Americans 8 Timeline of 375 Years 12 Notable Providence Residents 34 Historic Architecture 36 Providence Legends
hope 42 Providence Through the Years
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Our First Visitor Liked Providence So Much He Never Left
When Roger Williams left home on an exciting new adventure 375 years ago, he inadvertently became Providence’s first tourist. This summer, we invite you to follow in his footsteps. Appreciate our city’s rich history and enjoy the way we’ve aged gracefully over the past four centuries. Savor our local cuisine, take in our colorful colony and rest comfortably in our numerous hotels. Roger would be jealous.
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Roger Williams and the Founding of Providence A lively experiment that shaped a nation By John McNiff
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Just 375 years ago, Roger Williams started something new. A tiny settlement called Providence was going to exist, and be an experiment – an experiment in freedom that still shapes our lives to this very day. Roger Williams was exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony in the winter of 1636 for his new and dangerous opinions. One of those dangerous opinions was that “Civil Magistrates’ power extends only to the Bodies and Goods, and outward state of men.” In short, he felt that a civil government could not punish people for what they believed. In the ever-changing way of the world, what was once thought to be heresy is now considered mainstream thinking. Roger Williams founded Providence as a safe haven, a refuge for all those persecuted for their consciences. This safe haven was to be a secular state with complete separation of church and state. The settlers would make
Original deed to Providence
rules and laws “in civil things only.” And to top it all off, the form of government here would be a democracy. Here was a true freedom of religion, a true liberty of conscience. This was an entirely new way to look at civil govArtist’s rendering of the c.1650 landscape surrounding Roger ernment. Separate Williams’ house church and state? When you break the tie between church ing the entire Great Chain. In 1644 Williams and state, where does the government get wrote, “The sovereign original and foundaits authority? In England, the king was king tion of civil government lies in the people.” because they believed that God made it so. Williams and Providence would turn The beginning of Rhode Island’s Charter of the world on its ear. Here was the first 1663 even states, “Charles II by the Grace place where each person could follow of God King.” And democracy? his own conscience. Here was the first John Cotton of Boston said, place where civil power was based in the “Democracy, I do not conceive people. People persecuted for what they that ever God did ordain as believed flocked to Rhode Island. The olda fit government either for est Quaker meeting house and the oldchurch or commonwealth. If est synagogue in the United States are the people be governors, who in Newport. The First Baptist Church in shall be governed?” America is in Providence. Rhode Island was in for These basic beliefs became part of what a rough ride. Williams had it is to think like an American, and were instarted a challenge to the corporated into the Constitution. The preGreat Chain of Being, where amble echoes Roger Williams’s words. It everything had its place in doesn’t start with “Congress, by the grace the universe: God was at the of God grants these laws to the people of top along with the angels, folthe United States.” Instead it starts with lowed by kings, clergy, nobilthree simple words, bigger than all the othity, and then the commoners ers: “We the People.” and the animals. Each had its place, and to change that place John McNiff is a Park Ranger at the Nationwould be to go against God’s al Parks Service’s Roger Williams National will. But Williams was refutMemorial.
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What Cheer, Netop? Roger Williams got by with a little help from his friends By John McNiff
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Roger Williams and the Narragansetts While we commemorate Roger Williams founding Providence 375 years ago, we should remember that he could not have accomplished anything without the help of the people who already lived here. The Narragansett and Wampanoag people have lived around what is now called Narragansett Bay for a very long time, long before any European came to settle here. The People fished for salmon, cod and bass, hunted deer and bear and farmed the three sisters: corn, beans and squash. Development of farming encouraged the development of “permanent” settled areas. In some regions of the Northeast this took the form of settled villages. In Southeastern New England, particularly the lands of the Wampanoag and Narragansett, because of the close and easy access to an abundance of fish and other coastal maritime resources, the permanent settled areas took the form of a more spread out “homeland,” with dispersed groups of dwellings and accompanying fields over a larger area. The women, who did most of the farming, were the anchors for communities. When Williams first came to the New World, he made a living for himself by trading English goods with The People. By doing this, learning their language and dealing fairly, Williams became friends with the leaders of the Wampanoag and the Narragansett. This relationship is what saved his life when he was thrown out of Massachusetts Bay in the winter of 1636. Wandering in the frozen wilderness, Williams was found and taken in by the Wampanoag. The following spring, Massasoit, Chief Sachem of the Wampanoag gave him land on the shore of the Ten Mile River in what is now East Providence. But because it was located within the boundaries of the Plymouth Colony, he was forced to leave. Sailing across the Seekonk River, he ran into a group of Narragansetts at a place called Slate Rock, now where Gano and Power Streets meet. He was greeted with three words: “What Cheer, Netop,” the 17th century equivalent of, “What’s up, dude?” That says more about Williams’ relationship with The People than many volumes of history books. John McNiff is a Park Ranger at the National Parks Service’s Roger Williams National Memorial.
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The City at 375 A look back at seminal events in Providence’s history 1636: Roger Williams founds Providence with land deeded from the Narragansett Indians, beginning the “lively experiment” in religious freedom that would become Rhode Island.
1832: Providence’s city government is inaugurated under its first mayor, Samuel Bridgham. 1841-42: Thomas Wilson Dorr is elected “The People’s Governor” by reformers and suffrage supporters, later leading to an armed insurrection against the official state government, led by Governor Samuel Ward King. 1854: Rhode Island College is founded as the Rhode Island State Normal School.
1969: Philip F. Addison, Jr. is the first Black American elected to City Council. 1974: Vincent “Buddy” Cianci is elected the city’s first Italian-American mayor. 1990: After resigning office in 1984, Cianci is reelected, ushering in the era of the Providence Renaissance.
1866: Racial segregation in public schools was abolished throughout the city and state.
1994: The Rhode Island Convention Center and Waterplace Park are constructed, and WaterFire begins. Providence Place Mall follows in 1999, giving rise to downtown Providence as we know it today.
1877: The Rhode Island School of Design is founded.
2010: Angel Taveras is elected the city’s first Hispanic mayor.
1900: Providence is established as the permanent state capital. Until 1854, the capital rotated between the five county seats of Providence, Newport, Bristol, East Greenwich and South Kingstown; from 1854-1899, it alternated between Providence and Newport.
2011: Providence celebrates its 375th anniversary.
First Baptist Church 1638: Williams establishes the First Baptist Church in America; the current building on North Main Street, however, was constructed in 1774-5. 1764: Brown University is founded as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 1772: The HMS Gaspee, a British customs schooner, is burned in Narragansett Bay by a group of rebellious colonists, including Providence’s John Brown. 1774: Rhode Island and Connecticut ban the importation of slaves. May 4, 1776: Rhode Island declares its independence from England, a full two months before any other colony. 1830: Providence is granted a city charter by the General Assembly of Rhode Island; it was ratified by the city’s electorate in November of the following year.
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1911: The Fabre Line, a passenger shipping company, establishes its American terminus in Rhode Island, ushering in waves of Italian and Portuguese immigrants. 1914: Johnson and Wales University is founded. 1917: Providence College is founded. 1938: The Hurricane of 1938 floods downtown with seven feet of water and devastates much of the city. 1949: WJAR Channel 10, the state’s first television station, begins operation. 1958: Interstate 95 divides Providence roughly in half.
For a more complete history of Providence, visit the city’s official website, www.providenceri.com/history, or check out the Rhode Island Historical Society, www.rihs.org.
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Innovation in Providence A history lesson in the making By Andy Cutler In May 2011, The Daily Telegraph, the United Kingdom’s largest daily newspaper, dubbed Providence “New England’s coolest city,” stating, “Like few other cities, Providence gives tax incentives to artists… and unlike any other, it was founded by Roger Williams, one of the great iconoclasts of the 17th century.” Today, Providence is attracting a new generation of leading thinkers not unlike Roger Williams, driven in large part by our technology, design and artistic communities. We are small, but our size is our advantage. New collaborations and private-public partnerships can be developed quickly. Saul Kaplan, the chief catalyst for the nonprofit Business Innovation Factory referred to our size “advantage” several years ago as “innovation at scale,” and he couldn’t have been more right – start small, think big and realize new market opportunities. Within our population is globally respected talent in the areas of business, art, design, neuroscience and entrepreneurship. People’s willingness to connect these dots has made Providence a global leader in student mentorship and engagement. Case in point is the nationally acclaimed, mentorship-driven startup business accelerator known as Betaspring, founded by three local entrepreneurs. Social Venture Partners, an organization established to assist and grow our state’s 100+ social enterprise ventures, has also created an entrepreneurial boot camp known as the Change Accelerator. Start-up accelerators like these serve as a means to not only grow our economy and retain homegrown talent, but attract new talent as well, with candidate applications pouring in from around the nation and other parts of the world. In the coming years, Providence will see the development of approximately 19 acres of land in the Jewelry District. Johnson & Wales University is expanding its design and programming academic and experiential learning offerings. Brown University will soon be completing
The Box Office, an eco-friendly business incubator space made from repurposed shipping containers, opened on Harris Avenue last year. development of the Warren Alpert Medical School; the university’s public-private partnership helped create the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in order to support the state’s entrepreneurial community. The ventures, space and projects created from these endeavors in the form of life science and technology start-ups, as well as groundbreaking research and development projects, will undoubtedly transform and evolve the Jewelry District into what many are now referring to as the “Knowledge District.” New spaces to house Providence’s art, design and entrepreneurial communities are also sprouting up. The internationally recognized incubator known as the Box Office, constructed from recycled shipping containers, and the Anchor design incubator space, which houses the newly expanded community woodworking studio Keeseh, are reflective of this growing need. Both were created by graduates of Brown and RISD. Events like Maker Faire RI, a local chapter of the national do-it-yourself design and technol-
ogy fair; A Better World by Design, an international design conference founded and facilitated by a group of Brown and RISD students; the Social Enterprise Rhode Island Summit, and the Business Innovation Factory’s Summit on Collaboration are but a few of the worldclass events driving thousands of inventors, designers, public officials, business leaders and students from all corners of the world to experience our city and state each year. These efforts are indeed paying off. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rhode Island is home to the second largest population (per capita) of industrial designers in the nation, many of whom who received their training and education at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 2009-2011, Rhode Island has seen a 12% net gain in arts-related businesses (now numbering just under 3,000); the largest increase is in the area of designrelated businesses (68% between 2009-2011). Brown University has seen a dramatic increase in the number of its students who choose to reside in Providence after graduation (approximately 23% since 2005). These are all indicators that our foundation of talented individuals and our ability to attract and retain similar talent internationally is something to capitalize on in a 21st century global economy. If history has taught us anything about New England’s second largest city, it’s that its best days lay ahead, but we have to seize this opportunity in time in order to fulfill its destiny of achieving (and sustaining) greatness. It’s time for Providence to regain its stature and status as a hub for innovation, creative thinkers and collaborations known (and respected) the world over. Achieving our collective potential is what we need to focus on now more than ever – Roger Williams would not have it any other way. Andy Cutler is a partner at Cutler and Company, a Providence communications design and student engagement consultancy.
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Famous Sons (and Daughters) Notable characters in Providence’s history By Rory Raven
General Ambrose Burnside, whose unique beard gave rise to the term “sideburns”
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A statue of George M. Cohan in Fox Point commemorates his Providence roots Thomas Wilson Dorr was an East Side lawyer and politician who literally led the charge for the expansion of voting rights in the 1840s. He and his followers held their own elections and Dorr became “The People’s Governor,” which brought him into armed conflict with the sitting governor at the time. General Ambrose Burnside’s disastrous military career during the Civil War cost him his command and got him sent back to Providence, where he was given a hero’s welcome. He became governor and later senator, and today a statue of him stands in downtown’s Burnside Park. Sarah Helen Whitman is remembered today mostly for her doomed engagement to Edgar Allan Poe, but she was a gifted poet and intellectual in her own right, debating transcendentalism with Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Constance Witherby was a bright student at Lincoln School, writing poetry and acting in plays. In 1929, she died of heart failure in Switzerland at age 16. Her mother published a volume of Constance’s poems, and a memorial statue of the young girl stands along Blackstone Boulevard today. Poet Galway Kinnell was born here but didn’t stay; neither did novelist Cormac McCarthy. H. P. Lovecraft wrote tales of cosmic, eldritch horror
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for the pulps, many of them set in the dark corners of his beloved hometown. Today, genrehopping science fiction author Paul Di Filippo lives in HPL’s old neighborhood and conducts his own gonzo literary explorations. Fox Point’s George M. Cohan was a songand-dance vaudevillian who wrote patriotic numbers such as “You’re a Grand Old Flag” and “Over There.” He is widely considered the father of the Broadway musical – he did write “Give My Regards to Broadway,” after all. In 1914, Gertrude I. Johnson and Mary T. Wales took in seven secretarial students, teaching them in Johnson’s Hope Street living room. Nearly a century later, Johnson and Wales University is one of the leading business and culinary schools in the nation. Notorious adult actress Marilyn Chambers? Survivor’s Richard Hatch? Former Miss America Shanna Moakler? Yes, they’re from here, too. But don’t make me go there. Rory Raven is a mentalist who reads minds and bends spoons. He is the creator and guide of the Providence Ghost Walk, the original ghosts and graveyards walking tour of the city, and the author of three books. www.roryraven.com
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Any list of notable Providence residents has to start with Roger Williams, the fiery Puritan theologian who founded the city in 1636. Williams was banished from Massachusetts for his “new and dangerous opinions” including separation of church and state, equal treatment of the local Indian tribes, and his belief in religious tolerance and “soul liberty” allowing each individual to find and follow their own religious path. No less remarkable were his Narragansett allies, led by Chief Sachem Canonicus, who welcomed him with open arms. Canonicus signed the original deed to Providence with his mark, a drawing of a bow and arrow. The Brown family gave us John Brown, a merchant and slave trader who had a hand in burning the Gaspee, as well as his brothers: architect Joseph, abolitionist Moses, and the college-endowing Nicholas. Governor Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776; apparently suffering from cerebral palsy, he used two hands to sign and quipped, “My hand does shake, but my heart does not.”
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JOIN ME IN CELEBRATING 375 YEARS OF PROVIDENCE ALL SUMMER LONG AT THESE FREE CITY EVENTS ANGEL TAVERAS, MAYOR
INDEPENDENCE WEEKEND CELEBRATION
July 1 - Skating Center
US Air Force Band of Liberty performance
July 4 - India Point Park
The RI Philharmonic Pops perform followed by fireworks. Sponsored by
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A free summer concert series that features local and national acts in the city’s most breathtaking park.
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PERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE
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A free performance series that showcases the art of local neighborhoods in city parks throughout the summer.
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Providence 375 Calendar of Events Where the Gardens Used to Be May-October Online, providentialgardener.com State Native American Exhibit Through June 17 Atrium Gallery, 1 Capitol Hill Free, arts.ri.gov 401-222-6996
Through the summer: Celebrate the spirit of Roger Williams, founder of Providence, by viewing the Providence Art Windows’ displays, reflecting the 375 celebration’s themes of Roots, Hope, Freedom and Ingenuity. Downtown and vicinity. providenceartwindows.blogspot.com
Chanteuse June 4 (bi-monthly, see event website for future dates), 8:30pm Firehouse 13, 41 Central Street $10, thejespowersproject.com 401-270-1801 Mayoral Portrait Exhibit Through October Providence City Hall, 25 Dorrance Street Free, providence375.com 401-272-2430 Craftland’s Roger Williams Tote Bag Through October Craftland, 235 Westminster Street $15, craftland.myshopify.com 401-272-4285 Discover Roger Williams Walking Tour Sundays and Mondays through August Slate Rock Park, Corner of Power and Gano Streets $15, members.cox.net/deenabl Providence 375 Essay Series Through October Online, providence375.com
Latino Literacy Classes Through October, 6-7:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 x1705 Speaking of Wickenden: A Cell Phone Walking Tour Through the summer Wickenden Street Free, brown.edu/jnbc 401-863-1177 Capital Ideas: Planning Providence 1636-2020 Through June 22 Providence City Hall, 25 Dorrance Street Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 American Dream Exchange Through October 2 Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, providence375.com 401-521-7266 Gaspee Days Fireworks Extravaganza: June 10, dusk Colonial Encampment: June 11, all day Parade: June 11, 10:00am Warwick. gaspee.com 800-736-7744 Improv Jones: Really Good Improv! Thursday and Saturdays, 10pm Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street $5, perishable.org 401-331-2695
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RI Historical Society Walking Tours June through September Begin at John Brown House Museum, 52 Power Street rihs.org 401-621-6122 Downtown Providence Walking Tours Second Thursday of the month, June-September, 12pm Meet on the Arcade steps 130 Westminster Street rihs.org 401-331-8575 Gallery Night Providence Third Thursday of the month, June-November, 5-9pm Tour leaves from Regency Plaza, 1 Regency Plaza Free, gallerynight.info 401-490-2042 Tours for Tots: Unusual Objects June 2, 16, 23, 2-3pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Live Bait: True Stories by Real People June 3 Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street
Through the summer: Freedom is the inspiration for A Lively Experiment, a social sculpture built by RISD students in collaboration with the Roger Williams Memorial community. Roger Williams National Memorial. 282 North Main Street. alivelyexperiment.net www.providence375.com
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Providence 375 Calendar of Events Tours for Tots: Unusual Objects June 2 & 9, 2-3pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 The Salvation Poem Film Screening June 10 Providence Place Mall Cinemas $12, cineramalatino.com 800-315-4000
June 3-4: Take a self-guided tour of some of the East Side’s gorgeous, historic private homes at The Providence Preservation Society’s annual Festival of Historic Houses. Festivities will begin June 3 with a cocktail party fundraiser. Ticket prices for the tour are $35 in advance and $40 on the day. Blackstone Boulevard and vicinity. 8317440. ppsri.org/festival
Literary Speed Dating June 13, 6:30-8:30pm Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street Free, provcomlib.org 401-467-2700 x2 Musician & Storyteller: Greg Cooney June 14, 2:30pm Wanskuck Community Library, 233 Veazie Street Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145
$5, perishable.org 401-331-2695
Family See & Sketch: Shiva Nataraja June 16, 6pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
WaterFire June 3 Providence River Free, waterfire.org 401-272-3111
Hands-on Art: Watercolor June 16, 6-8pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
Family See & Sketch: The Silver Spoon June 5, 12, 26, 11:15am RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
Rhythm & Rebellion: A Gallery Exhibit June 16, 12pm-1am Roots Café, 276 Westminster Street rootscafeprovidence.com 401-497-5246
Tape Art Installation June 7-30 Bank of America City Center, 2 Kennedy Plaza Free, kennedyplaza.org 401-331-5544
Screening: Funny Face June 16, 6:30pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
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Summer Reading Kick-Off June 16, 1-4pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-467-2700 Breathing Tube: Short Plays for Radio, Live June 17, 10pm Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire Street $5, perishable.org 401-331-2695 WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park WBRU 2010 Rock Hunt Winners The Wandas June 17, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489
June 16: Sample traditional Latin-American cuisine at Rhode Island’s first Sabor Latino, from 6-10pm at Roger Williams Park Casino. Tickets are $45, and all proceeds benefit Progreso Latino. 1000 Elmwood Avenue. 728-5920. progresolatino.org Providence Roller Derby June 18 Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin Street providencerollerderby.com 401-458-6000
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Havana Nights June 18 Roots Café, 276 Westminster Street rootscafeprovidence.com 401-256-3440 Roger Williams’ Providence June 18, July 16 Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, nps.gov/rowi 401-521-7266 Theater of Thought Presents: Executor June 18, 4, 4:30, 5 & 5:30pm Throughout Providence $39, theaterofthought.com Open Studio: Designing Cocktail Culture June 19, 10am-12pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 2nd Annual State Asian Art Exhibit June 20-July 8; Reception June 16, 6-8:30pm
Atrium Gallery, 1 Capitol Hill Free, arts.ri.gov 401-222-6996 Poetry in Public Places June 22-July 27 Downtown Providence & vicinity Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-954-0721 WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park Santa Mamba June 24, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Family Film Series: Art Behind the Scenes, Vol. 1 June 25, 2:30pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Zoobilee! Feast with the Beasts June 25 Roger Williams Park Zoo, 1000 Elmwood Avenue rogerwilliamsparkzoo.org 401-785-9457 Family Storytelling Workshop with Valerie Tutson June 25, 2:30-3:30pm Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street Free, provcomlib.org 401-467-2700
June 21, July 19 & August 16: Hispanic culture is celebrated through the summer months at the Películas Latinas (Latino Film Festival). Refreshments will be served at this film series for adults, which feature movies from Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Peru. South Providence Library. 441 Prairie Avenue. provcomlib.org
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June 23-July 31: One of the Providence Journal’s Best Shows of 2010 is back for a return engagement: Perishable Theatre’s Hedwig the Angry Inch at Pell Chafee Performance Center. Don’t miss this chance to see the original RI cast at its very best. Tickets are $25. 87 Empire Street. 521-1100. perishable.org
chifferobecabaret.com 401-331-8829 Community Minded Kids Conversation and Field Guide June 25, 6-8pm AS220, 115 Empire Street Free, kidoinfo.com 401-831-9327
Open Studio: Building Blocks June 25, 10am-12pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
The Artist’s Place: Museum Youth Intensive June 28, 29 & 30, July 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10, 4pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
Chifferobe presents Stars and Stripes: A USO Tribute Show June 25, 8pm-12am Cuban Revolution, 60 Valley Street
Bwana Iguana Reptile Adventures June 29 Wanskuck Community Library, 233 Veazie Street
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PROVIDENCE
So Much to Celebrate! Join us for FREE downtown walking tours on the 2nd Thursday of each month, June through September. Tours start at noon on the steps of the Arcade, 130 Westminster.
June 9: HOPE • July 14: FREEDOM Aug 11: ROOTS • Sep 8: INGENUITY proudly feeding the village for 36 years
Rue De L’Espoir American Bistro Cooking
open daily breakfast, lunch, dinner 99 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02906 info/reservations 401-751-8890 www.therue.com
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Mo se s Brow n You,
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doing both well and good in the world: R.I. Chief Justice Paul Suttell ’67, former U.S. Ambassador Chris Hill ’70, Pell Center Director P. H. Liotta ’74, Save the Bay Baykeeper John Torgan ’87, Teach for America R.I. Director Heather Tow-Yick ’94, and our 2011 Commencement speaker, Tom Chappell ’61, founder of Tom’s of Maine. 250 Lloyd Avenue • Providence • (401) 831-7350 To see our 2011 college destination list, visit mosesbrown.org/2011collegedestinations
Providence 375 Calendar of Events July 1, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 WaterFire July 2 Providence River Free, waterfire.org 401-272-3111
June 25: Join the West Broadway Neighborhood Association for its free annual West Side Block Party on Sycamore Street from 2-8pm. There will be food, music, children’s activities and much more. 831-9344. wbna.org
Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145
Fireworks photo by Michael Christofaro
Youth Writing Workshop by Steven Krasner June 30, 10:30am Library Program Room, 31 Candace Street Free, provcomlib.org 401-272-4140
375th Anniversary Wine Dinner July 2, 7pm Capital Grille, 1 Union Station $125, thecapitalgrille.com 401-521-5600 Trading Post July 6, 27, 10am Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, nps.gov/rowi 401-521-7266 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative July 6 & 20 Brown Street Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489
WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park Young the Giant
Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative July 7, 14, 21 & 28, 6pm Dexter Training Grounds Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 PCL Summer Concert Series with the Sweet P Blues Band July 8, 6:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-467-2700 WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park Deer Tick July 8, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Quarterly Used Book Sale July 8-9, 10am-2pm Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, 1000 Elmwood Avenue providenceri.com/museum 401-785-9457 Rhythm & Rebellion: A Music Festival July 9, 12pm-1am Roots Café, 276 Westminster Street rootscafeprovidence.com 401-497-5246
Kidoinfo Providence Storytime July and August, weekly Burnside Park, Greater Kennedy Plaza, 2 Kennedy Plaza Free, kidoinfo.com/ri 401-316-5827 The Air Force Band of Liberty July 1 Bank of America City Center, 2 Kennedy Plaza Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489
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Roger Williams Paddle July 9 Providence River providence375.com
July 4: Gather the family for live music and a dazzling display of fireworks and the RI Philharmonic Pops at Bank RI’s Independence Day Celebration, a free event at India Point Park. India Street. 421-2489
Family See & Sketch: Zig Zag Chair July 10, 24, 31, 11:15am RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Main Street USA Walk July 10, 1pm
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Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, nps.gov/rowi 401-521-7266 Musical Roots of Hope and Freedom: African American Choral Music July 10; 1:30pm brunch, 3pm concert PAIS High School, 182 Thurbers Avenue $50, rpmvoices.com 401-419-7346 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative Opera Providence July 10, 14, 24 & 31, 5pm Hopkins Square Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 1st Annual Middle Eastern Art Exhibit July 11-August 6; Reception July 21, 6-8:30pm Atrium Gallery, 1 Capitol Hill Free, arts.ri.gov 401-222-6996
Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative July 11, 18 & 25 Garibaldi Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative July 12, 19 & 26 Fargnoli Park, Smith Street Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative July 13 & 27 Billy Taylor Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Dave Marchetti: Animal Experiences July 14, 10:30am Library Program Room, 31 Candace St Free, provcomlib.org 401-272-4140 PCL Summer Concert Series with The Throttles July 15, 6:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-467-2700
July 9: Dance to the beat of traditional Native American drums at the Affiliated Tribes of New England Indians’ first annual Powwow, also featuring vendors of Native American arts, crafts and food. Burnside Park. 2 Kennedy Plaza. 331-5544 x5. kennedyplaza.org
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WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park Providence Roots Acoustic Festival July 15, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Cruise Night July 15, 5pm The Steel Yard, 27 Sims Avenue thesteelyard.org 401-273-7101
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July 16: Stroll the paths of Waterplace Park while listening to music from around the world as over 90 bonfires along the rivers illuminate downtown and the Riverwalk during WaterFire. 272-3111, www.waterfire.org
Projo Writer: Steven Krasner July 16, 10:30am Wanskuck Community Library, 233 Veazie Street Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 Latin Dance Party July 16, 9pm The Spot Underground $10, santamamba.com 401-383-7133 Narragansett Dance, Music & Storytelling Program July 16, 1pm Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, tomaquagmuseum.com 401-521-7266 Open Studio: Tiny Exhibitions July 17, 10am-12pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street
Michael J. Mercurio
Memorial Golf Tournament To Benefit the Michael J. Mercurio Scholarship Foundation
Saturday, July 2, 2011 Swansea Country Club Swansea, MA
Registration at 11:00 am
Shotgun Start at 1:00 pm To sponsor, make a donation or sign up to play visit www.mjmgolf.com or call 401-247-5444
Michael J. Mercurio We know that Michael was marvelously talented. What some often don’t understand is that his talent was also accompanied by a generosity of spirit that inspired all around him to do and be better. This is a most wonderful legacy for a life cut short. But it is truly an inspiring and wonderful legacy that Michael would have loved. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
PPAC/The VETS Salutes...
SINCE 1900
We’ll continue the celebration all season long! Join us for these outstanding shows…
“ C o n g r at u l at i o n s PPAC 2011/2012 PERFORMANCES Rock of Ages
Cirque Dreams Holidaze
Les Misérables
Shrek The Musical
October 4 – 9, 2011
December 13 – 18, 2011
November 1 – 6, 2011
Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
January 3 – 8, 2012
Mary Poppins
February 8 – 19, 2012
Come Fly Away
November 15 – 20, 2011
Boston Pops Orchestra
March 2 – 4, 2012
The Addams Family March 20 – 25, 2012
Keith Lockhart, Conductor December 2, 2011
Bring It On: The Musical
December 3, 2011
Burn the Floor
Cesar Milan
April 24 – 29, 2012
January 6, 2012
anniversary from one of Providence’s oldest Family owned and operated real Estate Companies.”
May 4 – 6, 2012
THE VETS 2011/2012 PERFORMANCES The Music of ABBA
to Providence on its 375th
An Evening with Renée Fleming and RIPO, Larry Rachleff, Conductor
– Former Mayor Joseph R. Paolino Jr.
January 21, 2012
Paolino Properties Since 1900
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Providence 375 Calendar of Events RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Exhibit Opening Reception and Lecture: Saving (Type) Face: Printers of Providence July 21, 6:30-8:30pm Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street Free, provlib.org 401-455-8000
July 17: Pack a picnic for Southside Community Land Trust’s 30th Birthday Party at Urban Edge Farm. Grammy awardwinning musician Bill Harley will perform, and the party will include games, beverages and of course, birthday cake. Admission for adults is $10, children come for free. 35 Pippin Orchard Road. 273-9419. southsideclt.org risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500
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Gallery Talk: Jacques Callot and the Baroque Print July 19, 12:15pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Family See & Sketch: Cocktail Culture July 21, 6pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Hands-On Art: Fashion Sketching July 21, 6-8pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 Screening: Auntie Mame July 21, 6pm
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Main Street USA July 31, 1pm Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, nps.gov/rowi 401-521-7266 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative July 30 Peace & Plenty Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489
PCL Summer Concert Series with Alec K. Redfearn and the Eyesores July 22, 6:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-467-2625
Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative August 1, 6:30pm Garibaldi Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489
WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park Sleeper Agent July 22, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-401-2489
Archaeology Talk - How do we know what we know about the past? August 3, 17, 10am Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, nps.gov/rowi 401-521-7266
WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park Brother UK July 29, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Family Film Series: Art Behind the Scenes, Vol. 2 July 30, 2:30pm RISD Museum, 224 Benefit Street risdmuseum.org 401-454-6500 WaterFire July 30 Providence River Free, waterfire.org 401-272-3111
July 30: Celebrate and create at Providence’s all-day art carnival, Wooly Fair. This year’s theme is “To the Moon!,” so expect fun, futuristic exhibits along with games, music and food. The Steel Yard, 27 Sims Avenue. 365-7044. thewooled.com www.providence375.com
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August 5, 12, 19 & 26, 5:30pm Roger Williams Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489
August 13: Don’t miss this one of a kind urban street party! Foo Fest is 12 hours of all-original music, as well as interactive art installations, games and local artist showcases. It’s a Providence tradition from one of its premier arts organizations. Empire Street, between Washington and Westminster. www.as220.org
Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative August 2, 9 & 16, 6pm Fargnoli Park, Smith Street Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative August 3 & 17, 5:30pm Brown Street Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative August 4, 11, 18 & 25 Riverside Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative: ECAS Theater
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PCL Summer Concert Series with the ‘Mericans August 5, 6:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-455-8102 WBRU Friday Night Concert Series at Waterplace Park WBRU 2011 Rock Hunt Winners Vulgarrity August 5, 7:30pm Waterplace Park, Finance Way Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Folk Art Exhibit August 8-September 30 Atrium Gallery, 1 Capitol Hill Free, arts.ri.gov 401-222-6996
Providence Roller Derby Double Header August 13 Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin Street providencerollerderby.com 401-458-6000 WaterFire August 13 Providence River Free, waterfire.org 401-272-3111 Summit Summer Music Fest August 14 Lippitt Park, junction of Blackstone Boulevard and Hope Street Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 Main Street USA Walk August 14, 28, 1pm Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street Free, nps.gov/rowi 401-521-7266
Rhode Island International Film Festival August 9-14 Venues throughout the state film-festival.org 401-861-4445 Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative August 10 & 24, 6pm Billy Taylor Park Free, providenceri.com/artculturetourism 401-421-2489 PCL Summer Concert Series with the Denver Boot August 12, 6:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-455-8102
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August 20, 27: Enjoy free live music in parks around the city with the Celebrate Providence! Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative. This installment brings The Get Lively Experiment, a mobile, people-powered DJ unit to beautiful India Point Park. 6pm. Free. providenceri.com/artculturetourism
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Brown celebrates Providence! 375 Years of Hope, Freedom, Roots and Ingenuity Providence and Brown University have shared a long and rich history, and we continue to be partners for progress. Outreach through education is one of the many ways Brown’s students, faculty and staff contribute to the local community. • More than 3,300 Brown students engage in community service each year. • Brown is building the Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence – a $10 million endowment to support Providence public school students. • Brown reimburses the tuition of a master’s degree in education for graduates who dedicate at least 3 years to teaching or policy work in Providence urban school districts.
• Each year, Brown graduates work in the state’s urban high schools to increase college awareness, preparation and enrollment.
For more information about how Brown contributes to education in Providence, please visit the website for the Office of Education Outreach, which can be found at www.brown.edu. You can also reach Brown’s office of the community liaison at 863-3717 or Jennifer_Braga@brown.edu.
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Providence 375 Calendar of Events Movie Night at the Carriage House September through October The Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue everettdancetheatre.org 401-831-9479 Providence 375 RIPTA Bus Passes September 1-30 ripta.com 401-781-9400
September 3: Get ready for some action on the fast track with Providence Roller Derby as the Sakonnet River Roller Rats take on the Old Money Honeys at the RI Convention Center. 1 Sabin Street. 4586000. providencerollerderby.com.
Rhythm & Rebellion: A Film Event August 18, 6-8pm Roots Café, 276 Westminster Street rootscafeprovidence.com 401-497-5246
The Brain Café – a Dialogue at the Intersection of Neuroscience, Medicine and the Arts September 29 The Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue everettdancetheatre.org 401-831-9479
Babe Ruth & The Providence Grays September 5, 4pm Providence Community Library, 1316 Broad Street
PCL Summer Concert Series with the Double Decker Dance Band August 26, 6:30pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-455-8102 Bilingual Poetry-Writing Workshop for Teens August 29, 5-8pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 Month of Peace in Providence September 1-30 Providence & Vicinity thepeaceflagproject.org
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Free, provcomlib.org 401-781-3136 The Open Stage September 9, 8-10pm The Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue everettdancetheatre.org 401-831-9479 What Cheer In The Park September 10, 1-6pm India Point Park, India Street providence375.com WaterFire September 10 Providence River Free, waterfire.org 401-272-3111 Youth Standing Up For Peace: A Celebration of Peace September 10, 6:30-9pm URI Providence Campus, Paff Auditorium, 80 Washington Street Free, ricj.org 401-467-1717 x103 A Decade After 9/11: Lost But Not Forgotten September 11, 4-6pm Waterplace Park, Wall of Hope Free, ricj.org 401-621-1992
September 9, 16, 23 & 30: Start the weekend off with laughter and music as Friday Night Live, Everett Dance Theatre’s raucous improv troupe, takes the stage. Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue. 831-9479, everettdancetheatre.org
Bilingual Poetry - Writing Workshop for Adults September 12, 5-8pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 Canonchet, The Narragansetts, and Canonchet Farm: From The Historical Collection September 14, 9:30am Knight Memorial Library,
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275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-455-8102 Rhythm & Rebellion: A Workshop and Cultural Celebration for Hispanic Heritage Month September 15, 12pm-1am Roots Café, 276 Westminster Street rootscafeprovidence.com 401-497-5246
Pixilerations [v.8] September 22-October 2 Downtown Providence & vicinity Free, first-works.org 401-421-4278
RI Latino CommUNITY Celebration September 15-October 15 Statewide hispanicheritageri.org 401-486-9095
September 23-25: Take pleasure in the work of Olneyville neighborhood kids by attending 375 Roger (Over and Out), short plays written by inventive kids and directed and performed by adults. The HappyBirthday-Providence-Plays will take place either 375 years in the past or 375 years in the future. 331-7007. mantonavenueproject.org
Make No Little Plans: Visions for the City of Providence September 16 & 17 Providence Preservation Society, 21 Meeting Street ppsri.org 401-831-7440
2nd Annual New England Native American Culture Week and Big Drum Powwow September 17-23 Various Locations Free, providence375.com
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WaterFire September 24 Providence River Free, waterfire.org 401-272-3111 Latino Expo 2011- Family Fun September 24, 2-5pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145
Unveiling of “Dialysis of the Planet” Mural by Agustin Patiño September 15, 12pm Next To St. Joseph’s Hospital, Plenty & Broad Street, Free
Exhibit Opening Reception and Lecture: Size Matters: The Corliss Steam Engine and the Industrial Ingenuity of Providence September 17, 2-3:30pm Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street Free, provlib.org 401-455-8000
Free, preservation.ri.gov/heritage 401-521-7266
Iron Chef September 25, 1-5pm The Steel Yard, 27 Sims Avenue thesteelyard.org 401-273-7101 Roger Williams as RI’s First Social Enterpreneur September 27, 6pm-12am The Box Office, 460 Harris Avenue Free, socialenterpriseri.org
Creative Survival: African American Foodways in Rhode Island Exhibit September 22, 5:30pm Johnson and Wales Culinary Arts Museum, 315 Harborside Boulevard Free, culinary.org 401-598-2805 Progresso Latino 34th Anniversary Gala September 23, 6-10pm Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet, 626 Broad Street, Cranston $75, progresolatino.org 34th Annual Heritage Day Festival September 24, 12pm Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street
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September 27, 30: Our very own cult horror writer is honored with his namesake HP Lovecraft Mini Film Fest, bringing his dark and twisted visions, which often take place in the mysterious corners of his hometown, to the screen. Free. 6pm. Rochambeau Library, 708 Hope Street. 272-3780. provcomlib.org
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Founded in 1880, the Art Club is a picturesque procession of historic houses; home to studios, galleries and a clubhouse. Through its public programs, its art instruction classes for members and its active exhibition schedule, the Providence Art Club continues a tradition of supporting the visual arts in Providence and beyond.
Celebrating our 100th year of Service Above Self to Support the City of Providence
The Galleries of the Providence Art Club 11 Thomas Street, Providence 401.331.1114 galleries@providenceartclub.org Please contact the gallery for current hours.
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Providence 375 Calendar of Events 1000 Elmwood Avenue rogerwilliamsparkzoo.org 401-785-9457 The Open Stage October 7, 8-10pm The Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue everettdancetheatre.org 401-831-9479
October 3: Don’t miss Pronk! (Providence Honk Fest), a parade down Wickenden Street of over 20 street bands from around the world. India Point Park, India Street. providencehonkfest.org 10th Annual State Latin American Art Exhibit October 1-28; Reception October 13, 6-8:30pm Atrium Gallery, 1 Capitol Hill Free, arts.ri.gov 401-222-6996
Friday Night Live October 7, 14, 21 & 28, 7-8pm The Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue everettdancetheatre.org 401-831-9479 Providence Roller Derby October 8 Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin Street providencerollerderby.com 401-458-6000
Pronk photo by Lori Ketten
Bilingual Poetry Reading and Contest for Teens October 3, 5-8pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 x1705 Spanish Poetry Reading and Contest for Adults October 5, 5-8pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 x1705 Jack O’Lantern Spectacular October 6-31 Roger Williams Park Zoo,
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Pilgrim Games October 10, 11am-1pm Providence Children’s Museum, 100 South Street $8.50, childrenmuseum.org 401-273-5437 Bienvenidos Latinos: Venta de Libros (Latino Book Sale) October 13, 5-8pm Wanskuck Library, 233 Veazie Street Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 x1705 Customs, Manners, and Worships - Rhode Island Begins Exhibit October 14-31, TuesdaySunday, 10am-4pm Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, 21 Prospect Street Free, brown.edu/Facilities/Haffenreffer 401-863-2065 The People, Places and Times of Historic Providence, a motor coach tour October 15 199 Hope Street $15, preserveri.org 401-453-0688 Latino Puppet-Making Workshop October 25, 2-5pm Knight Memorial Library, 275 Elmwood Avenue Free, provcomlib.org 401-274-4145 x1705
October 8: Celebrate the majesty of WaterFire, while also benefiting local breast cancer resources with the annual Gloria Gemma Flames of Hope. The nighttime lighting at Waterplace Park is followed by a 5k road race the next day. www.gloriagemma.org
Iron Pour October 28, 6pm The Steel Yard, 27 Sims Avenue thesteelyard.org 401-273-7101 The Art of Roger Williams Exhibit November 18, 5:30pm John Hay Library, 20 Prospect Street Free, library.brown.edu/about/hay 401-863-2146
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The Building Blocks of Providence Appreciating the city’s diverse architecture and environment The panoramic vista from the cupola atop the tower on Benefit Street’s Old State House offers a remarkable opportunity to perceive the unique wonder of Providence’s built heritage. To the east, China Trade mansions, boxy houses of 18th century burghers, Victorian villas and tenement dwellings of 20th century immigrants ascend the steep slope of College Hill. To the south, solid masonry schools, libraries, churches, galleries and a large courthouse form an institutional corridor, punctuated by cupolas and steeples, before the expanse of Narragansett Bay in the distance. In a topographical bowl to the southwest, the stores and offices of downtown spread west from a dense concentration of tall towers. To the northwest, the glittering marble State House proudly holds Smith Hill. But aside from the rich variety of this architectural feast, what unites this into the distinct place that is Providence? The most distinctive characteristic of Providence’s architecture is its consistently high quality of design and construction. The city is home to important architectural landmarks such as the John Brown House (1786-1788), the Arcade (1828), the State House (1895-1901) and the Industrial Trust Company Building (1928). Impressive qualities of design and construction, however, can be found equally in less architecturally assertive examples. Consider, for instance, the handsomely detailed Nicholson File Company (1864) on Acorn Street, the resonant row of 13 identical Andrew Dickhaut Cottages on Bath Street (1883), the stackedporch triple-deckers (1900-1928) that line Oakland Avenue or the narrow George C. Arnold Building (1923) at the corner of Mathewson and Washington Streets. Grand and elaborate or small and simple, each of them presents considered attention to the basic elements of architecture: massing, proportion and detail. In addition to fine design quality, Providence buildings share a remarkable consistency of scale. Some buildings, like the Stephen Hop-
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kins House (1707, 1743) on Benefit Street, are intimate because of their almost diminutive scale, while others, like the State House, are calculated to impress. Throughout the city, however, we can intuitively sense and establish physical relationships between ourselves and the built environment. Those relationships extend beyond the buildings themselves to the way The John Brown House, built in 1788, still stands on they are placed on the Benefit Street today land. Benefit Street is narrow and slightly curving across its one-mile a low-lying spit of land on the south side of the length, and most of the houses that line it are Great Salt Cove and rapidly expanded to berelatively small in scale and located close to the come the economic workhorse that supported street and to one another. a constantly expanding industrial hinterland. Providence’s scale is intimately linked Downtown’s development demanded an onwith another defining characteristic: the re- going topographical transformation: filling the lationship between the built environment cove, and narrowing and covering the rivers to and the topography – both land and water allow for construction of ever-larger buildings – that the city occupies. While Native Ameri- and accommodation of the railroad through the cans occupied today’s Providence season- heart of the city. In the late 20th century, howally, English colonists located a permanent ever, Providence reclaimed its waterfront by settlement, surrounded by hills at the top of uncovering the Moshassuck, WoonasquatuckNarragansett Bay, at a riverside setting on et and Providence Rivers and recreating a new the east edge of the Great Salt Cove, at the Cove Basin, Waterplace Park. This significant confluence of the Moshassuck and Woon- – and in many ways unprecedented – developasquatucket Rivers. The bay, not the rivers, ment reinforces an overarching characteristic achieved preeminence first, as the colony’s of Providence’s built environment, the ongoing connection with the rest of the world. dialogue between past, present, and future. The shift to an industrial economy harnessed the rivers in the valleys that thread William McKenzie Woodward is the principal through the settlement’s hills, and the indusarchitectural historian of the Rhode Island Histry along these corridors was linked to rail-line torical Preservation and Heritage Commission. proximity and water. Providence’s commercial This work is excerpted from his entry into the center, what became today’s downtown, beProvidence 375 Essay Series; read the full text gan as a small cluster of buildings isolated on online at www.providence375.com.
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The Stuff of Legend Digging into the city’s mysteries By Rory Raven
Sarah Helen Whitman hosted many famous writers and thinkers in her Benefit Street home
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Some say the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe haunts Benefit Street a century ago still supposedly haunt the intersection where their home burned. Their mysterious presence was reported several times by the night watch into the early 19th century. A man coming home late one night saw a woman in an 18th century ball gown dash out of a stately home and into the middle of Benefit Street… where she vanished. Looking back to see where she had come from, the man found that she had not come out of a door, but straight out of a blank wall. I have spoken with a sensible-seeming young woman who told me of seeing a horse drawn carriage roll by her one rainy night. It stopped in front of a Benefit Street mansion and vanished into thin air. Without a doubt, Providence’s most enduring urban legend is that of the many slave tunnels said to honeycomb College Hill. Supposedly, the tunnels connect the homes of various wealthy families to the waterfront, so that newly-arrived slaves could be secretly moved from the Triangle
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Trade merchant ships to the houses of the privileged. According to one legend, some unfortunate slaves became trapped in one such tunnel, and their agonized cries can still be heard on foggy nights. The only problem in all of this is that the tunnels do not exist; people have spent decades searching for them and always come up empty-handed. At best, we heard that a friend of a friend knew where a tunnel was to be found, but details are not forthcoming. But whether ghosts exist or the tunnels are really there, we still tell stories about them; we never let the facts stand in the way of a good story. And sometimes, maybe we shouldn’t. Rory Raven is a mentalist who reads minds and bends spoons. He is the creator and guide of the Providence Ghost Walk, the original ghosts and graveyards walking tour of the city, and the author of three books. www.roryraven.com
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When it comes to spooky legends, cities tend to specialize: Salem has its witches, New Orleans its voodoo high priestesses. In Providence, we have ghosts. There are vampire legends in other parts of the state, of course, but the undead don’t seem to be found within city limits. Many of the houses that stood along early Benefit Street had small family graveyards in one corner of the property. Eventually, shortly after North Burial Ground opened in 1700, the remains in those little family plots were exhumed and reinterred in the new cemetery. But according to legend, some of the bodies were left behind and remain buried along the picturesque street to this very day. Some of the thriftier residents, it has been suggested, may have just moved the headstones. So it should come as no surprise that various phantoms are said to be glimpsed along Benefit Street in the dead of night. Edgar Allan Poe is rumored to still stalk the East Side, perhaps mourning his failed engagement to Sarah Helen Whitman, whose house, the scene of their courtship, still stands along the north end of Benefit Street. A mother and daughter who lost their lives in a house fire over
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A Unique Perspective A glance at the history of art in the Creative Capital By Catherine Little Bert
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The Foundation of Art Serious appreciation of art in Providence started with the founding of two critical art institutions in the late 19th century: the Rhode Island School of Design and the Providence Art Club. RISD was established in 1877 with funds from the 1876 Centennial Women’s Committee, and first directed by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf until her death in 1895. The Providence Art Club was founded by E.M. Bannister along with fellow artists Charles Walter Stetson and George Whittaker in 1880. Of the 16 original signors on the club’s compact, six of them were women; Edward Bannister, a Black American, was a nationally acclaimed painter in his own right. The Rise of Arts and Crafts In 1885, Sydney Burleigh completed his landmark Fleur de Lis Studio on Thomas Street, next to the Providence Art Club. The studio marks one of the earliest examples of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Burleigh, fresh from studies in Europe, brought to Providence William Morris’s Arts and Crafts ideals celebrating the role of artist in the capital city and the importance of design and craftsmanship. Patrons of Art Art patronage was a critical reason for artists to congregate in Providence; with the support of leading industrialists and businessmen, aspiring artists used the city as a jumping off point to build a reputation in Boston and New York and establish their careers. The Metcalf Family was a major source of patronage; Isaac Bates was another important collector of American and Providence artists. When he died, his collection was one of the significant additions to the RISD Museum of Art. Catherine Little Bert has researched and published on Rhode Island art for 25 years and is the owner of Bert Gallery. www.bertgallery.com
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Take a Bite A culinary history of the city By Christopher Martin Ever since Roger Williams and his followers settled on the banks of the Great Salt Cove, from which they harvested oysters a foot wide and fish so plentiful that it was said one could cross the river on their backs, food has been central to Providence’s development and identity. By the 1850s those oysters were a prized commodity in Providence markets and restaurants, praised for their size and sweetness. In 1872, Walter Scott parked an old express wagon in front of the old Providence Journal offices at Turk’s Head, from which he dispensed ham and chicken sandwiches, boiled eggs and fruit pies. Thus was born the first diner, that most American of dining institutions, where garbage men, students, politicians and housewives sit elbow to elbow while enjoying good food served quickly and inexpensively. Scott inspired many imitators, among which was Haven Brothers, established in 1888 or 1893 (depending on the source). Today it’s the oldest working diner on wheels. Italian immigrants arriving here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought with them a rich culinary heritage. Perhaps the humblest example is the pizza strip, a simple focaccia crust coated with spicy tomato sauce. Cheeseless and served at room temperature, they are appropriate for birthday parties, political fundraisers, and weddings, or as an everyday snack. Pizza strips are sold at most Italian (and some non-Italian) bakeries, including Original Palmieri’s on Ridge Street, perhaps the longest continuously operating bakery in the state, having been incorporated in 1901. Rhode Island’s largest concentration of Italians settled in the Federal Hill neighborhood in the 1910s and ‘20s, and it is there that you’ll still find many fine, old guard Italian restaurants and vendors: Gasbarro’s Wines (est. 1898), Camille’s (est. 1914), Scialo Broth-
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Though the Smith Hill New York System is the older of the two, Olneyville is perhaps the most iconic. ers (est. 1916), Angelo’s Civita Farnese (est. 1924), Joe Marzilli’s Old Canteen (est. 1956), and Costantino’s Venda Ravioli (est. 1972). Many Greek immigrants, arriving in Rhode Island via New York City in the early part of the 20th century, opened hot wiener joints, putting their own spin on the signature American dog they had enjoyed at Coney Island. These “New York Systems” became another mainstay of Rhode Island life, and one of the oldest, Original New York System, established in 1927, is still in business on Smith Street. Johnson & Wales University, founded as a business school in 1914, established its College of Culinary Arts in 1973. Many graduates, having come to love the City of Providence during the years of their education, went to work in area restaurants, or opened their own, and it is partly due to this that Providence boasts so many exceptional eateries. In 1980, Al Forno, on South Main Street, introduced grilled pizza to America, supposedly by confusing a wood-fired brick oven with a grill. The accidental variation caught on and
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spread to specialty restaurants and backyard grills across the country. There are currently two microbreweries in Providence: Union Station Brewery, established around 1987 in part of the old Providence train station at Exchange Terrace, and Trinity Brewhouse on Fountain Street, which opened in 1995. In 1996, Trinity won a bronze medal in the World Beer Cup for its Centennial Russian Imperial Stout. Over the last few decades immigration to Providence has largely been from Hispanic countries – Puerto Rico, Colombia, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala – as well as from Liberia and a number of Asian countries, and their influence is already evident in the wide array of restaurant choices throughout the Providence area. What the future holds, nobody knows, but it’s sure to be delicious. Christopher Martin, a regular columnist for Edible Rhody, is the curator of Quahog.org, a website about Rhode Island history and culture.
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Providence through the Years Here are three views of the Providence Skyline from its 254th, 331st and 374th years. What will it look like in its 400th?
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