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Spring 2021 to Collect, Preserve, and Share with Others the Heritage of Jamestown, Rhode Island Jamestown Historical Society HERITAGE Spring 2021 To collect, preserve, and share with others the heritage of Jamestown, Rhode Island. Stories in Stone Photograph by Andrea Von Hohenleiten Captain William Photograph by Andrea Von Hohenleiten Pemantel Olivia Rice The gravestones in Cedar Cemetery are like Lucy Ann Hazard Tefft (1837-1908) will represent a mirror held up to Jamestown history. This fall the family. on October 2 — rain day, October 3 — at 1 PM the In Cedar Cemetery proper, the tour stops at Jamestown Historical Society will conduct a tour the graves of George W. Champlin (1809-1884) to look into that mirror at nine people who lived and his daughter Hannah E. Champlin (1855- and died in Jamestown from the late 17th century st 1928), Ellen Cottrell (1847-1925), Lena Clarke to the early 21 century. (1867-1955), Olivia Rice (1880-1973), and Captain The oldest grave on the tour is that of Abel William Pemantel (1918-2000). Franklin, the first keeper of the Beavertail light, During the tour, guides will escort groups of who died in 1758. He is buried in the Quaker ten between the sites. At each site, interpreters cemetery, which from 1710 to 1928 was an inde- will tell the stories of the people buried there. pendent burial ground and the only cemetery, until St. Mark cemetery was laid out in 1955, The tour is scheduled to take about an hour associated with a religious group. and a half and includes a half-mile of walking between the graves. Most of the walk is on Next to the Quaker cemetery is one of the few pavement, but some is on uneven ground. Only surviving family cemeteries. The Hazard farm 70 tickets will be available. We have applied for abutted what in 1861 became Cedar Cemetery a grant so that there will be no cost; if we do not and in 1942 the two cemeteries merged. Thomas receive funding, tickets will be $20. Hazard (1753-1815) and his great-granddaughter 1 - Spring 2021 Summer/Fall 2021 Program Calendar Summer Hours Thursday, August 26 Museum and Windmill Annual Tour Preview Party 1 to 4 PM 5 to 7 PM Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 36 Whittier Road June 25 through Columbus Day, October 11 Join other members of the society for a fund-rais- Museum exhibit:“The Art of Jamestown,” er and cocktail party curated by Peter Marcus Tickets: $50 Quaker Meetinghouse Saturday, August 28 10:30 AM [Rain date: August 29] Sundays through October Farm Tour Services of Religious Society of Friends 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM All are welcome Visit Jamestown’s farms and see in action the Friday and Sunday connections between our history and our present June 18 and June 20 Tickets: $20; limited to 75 attendees Museum and Windmill Docent Saturday, September 21 Orientation Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day Museum: June 18 and June 20 at 11 AM Windmill: June 18 and June 20 at 1 PM 11 AM - 4 PM Learn about the exhibit, the new touchscreen Museum, meetinghouse, and windmill open lon- display, COVID limitations, and new opening/ ger hours to support RI Historic Sites Coalition closing procedures participation in National Museum Day. Get your ticket online and visit many RI museums free. Friday, June 25 Saturday, October 2 Opening Day [Rain date: October 3] Museum and Windmill Stories in Stone 1 to 4 PM 1 to 4 PM Saturday, June 26 Tour Cedar Cemetery, visit burial sites of nine early Jamestowners and learn their stories Quaker Meetinghouse Open House Tickets: $20; limited to 70 attendees 1 to 4 PM Explanatory tours of the Quaker meetinghouse Monday, October 11 Jamestown Museum and Windmill Tuesday, August 10 Close Annual Meeting Last day this season to visit the museum or drop by the windmill. 7 PM Venue: TBD Visits to any JHS site may be arranged at any Annual report of society. time by emailing your request to info@james- Election of officers and directors for 2021-2022. townhistoricalsociety.org. Guest speaker: TBD Spring 2021 - 2 From Your President Dear Friends, As to the future, we are optimistic and going Despite COVID restrictions — and once we forward almost as if it were pre-COVID. The had adjusted to them — your historical society main changes are a restriction on the number of had an active winter. people we can have at any event – even an out- door one – and that all larger events are outdoors. We are moving forward with the Memories Project spearheaded by Debby Swistak and Linda Vaccinated volunteers are back in the vault Warner. Each week a poster including a pic- working. Visitors are not welcome yet. ture and a memory are posted on the Facebook The Conanicut Friends are gathering each page Jamestown, RI. We have been getting some Sunday at 10:30 AM at the Quaker meetinghouse. wonderful memories from the comments. See the We will open the Museum and Windmill albeit report on page 10 for an example of a poster. with some restrictions in late June. The vault was not completely closed down. The Program Committee is in the middle of Rosemary came in frequently to update Past- arranging a full summer schedule. Perfect and to gather objects for the monthly The first “Members Only” outing – to the exhibits in the library. I joined her once a week to Common Burial Ground in Newport – is June 3. enter membership information into the database, Watch your email for others over the summer. although I processed the acknowledgment letters from home. The annual meeting will be August 10. We had committee and Board meetings via A Farm Tour on August 28 — preceded by Zoom. Although we’ve all been vaccinated, we the Tour Preview “Members Only” Party — will will continue that for a little longer in keeping replace our annual House Tour. See the details with CDC recommendations to avoid close con- on page 7. tact with large groups in enclosed areas. When The tour of Cedar the weather gets better, we plan to have outdoor Cemetery on October 2 meetings. (Your Executive Committee had its first is described on page 1. face-to-face meeting in April. It was good to be together at last.) Of course, all plans are contingent on CDC We had a great response to our webinars. See guidelines for public the full report on page 4. gatherings. People are still bringing us donations. We Looking forward received two major new collections: the papers to an almost normal of Central Baptist Church and Bird Count Note- year, books for the last 40 years. See page 9 for a com- plete list of donations and acquisitions. Gabe Highstein Officers 2020-2021 President Gabrielle Highstein Outreach Liaison Vice President Sue Maden Programs Liaison Secretary Delia Klingbeil Collections Liaison Treasurer Rosemary Enright Site Maintenance Liaison Directors to 2021 Directors to 2023 Suzi Andrews Exhibits Betsy Baldwin Programs Bill Salmons Finance, Outer Islands Fred Brown Buildings & Grounds Judy Knight Volunteers Directors to 2022 Marcia Lindsay Meetinghouse Conanicut Battery Stephanie Amerigian Website Larry McDonald Memories Elizabeth Di Censo Collections Debby Swistak Devi Ross Outreach to Schools 3 - Spring 2021 Winter Programs On-going Projects About 350 viewers tuned in to the JHS webi- Exhibits nar series this winter. As soon as the The 2014 video “We Took the Ferry” pro- Jamestown Phi- duced by Bob Sutton, was shown three times due lomenian Library to popular demand. This documentary tells won- reopened, monthly derful stories of the teens who took the ferry to exhibits in the JHS high school in Newport before the bridge opened case in the library in 1969. resumed. In the past Also popular was the 2007 documentary months, the exhibits by Nick Schaus and Barry Cook. “Narragansett featured the World Avenue: Then and Now” focuses on the devel- War II aircraft obser- opment of Jamestown’s main street. Both videos vation tower, the his- feature many old photos, videos, and information tory of Jamestown’s from the JHS archives as well as interviews with Black community, residents. eBay acquisitions, Jamestown dogs and If you missed the webinars, DVDs of both dog registration, and videos are available in the Museum Store on the insignia patches. JHS website and in the museum. An expanded dog We also sponsored two very interesting talks. exhibit was mounted “Bondage to Boatsteerer” by Jamestown resi- near the Town Clerk’s dent Peter Fay traced the history of Jamestown’s office to encourage Black and Indigenous People in the 19th centu- dog registration One of the panels from ry. Many who had been enslaved on the island, during the April regis- “Dogs of Jamestown” when freed, went to sea on whaling ships or on tration period. exhibit in Town Hall ships involved with the slave trade. As sailors they were treated as equals and received the From the Collection same pay as their white counterparts. Each month a member of the Collections “Brilliant Beacons — the History of the Amer- Committee selects an artifact from the JHS col- ican Lighthouse” by acclaimed author Eric Jay lection and researches its history. An email with Dolin of Marblehead portrayed the importance the story of the artifact is sent to everyone on our of lighthouses in our country’s growth. The talk email list. Among the latest “From the Collection” was cosponsored by the Friends of the Jamestown subjects was the portrait of Lt. John T. Greble for Philomenian Library and the Beavertail Light- whom Fort Greble on Dutch Island was named. house Museum Association. If you missed any of this winter’s historical Both talks featuring old photos, maps, and tidbits, you can see them on the JHS website un- paintings were very well received.
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