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HERITAGE Spring 2017 Jamestown Historical Society HERITAGE Spring 2017 To collect, preserve, and share with others the heritage of Jamestown, Rhode Island. FROM THE PRESIDENT Mary Heath Every other year, we celebrate the historic Thank you to Larry McDonald, Eric Archer, and Conanicut Battery, and Battery Day 2017 is almost Dennis Webster for organizing this great event. upon us. On June 3 at 11 AM, the Jamestown Band I hope you were with us on May 13 for the will play, the Artillery Company of Newport will shoot wonderful celebration of the 75th anniversary of the a cannon salute across the West Passage, and members Recreation Center building. The JHS proudly co- of the Jamestown American Legion and VFW will sponsored the event with the town’s Recreation form a color guard to start the festivities. Department but most of the work of bringing it The Jamestown Cub Scout troop and reenactors together was done by Jane Bentley, your Program from His Majefty 54th Regiment of Foot and the 2nd Committee chair. There were many activities RI Continental Line will march in. After Rosemary throughout the day for all to enjoy. Enright gives a short history of the 1776 Battery, the See photos and read more about the Recreation reenactors will give a vivid demonstration of military Center event on pages 6 and 7 or visit our website. action during the American Revolution. The Anniversary event was complimented by the The ceremonies will conclude with representatives exhibit that Suzi Andrew’s Museum and Exhibit of the three countries that occupied the fort – the Committee installed in the lobby showing the history United States, Great Britain, and France – raising the the building. The exhibit is a permanent addition, so flags of their respective nations over the fort while the stop by any time to see it. Jamestown band plays the national anthem of each This year we are having an opening reception for country. the new exhibit at the museum – Jamestown: Lost and Parking is limited, so we’re asking you to park at Found, curated by Jim Buttrick. The party is on Friday, Mackerel Cove and take the town’s Recreation June 23 from 5:30 to 7:30. It’s a great chance to see Department bus up to the park. There will be parking the exhibit, have drinks and nibbles, and talk to the for those with mobility problems closer to the park, curator about his vision. I hope to see you there. but please take advantage of the bus if you can. Pictures from Battery Day, 2011 1 – Spring 2017 SUMMER 2017 PROGRAM CALENDAR Saturday, June 3 Sunday, June 25 Battery Day Quaker Meetinghouse Open House 11 AM 1 to 4 PM Conanicut Battery Historic Park Guided tours of the Quaker meetinghouse. The Celebrate Jamestown’s 1776 Battery with the Artillery meetinghouse is also open for Religious Society of Company of Newport, the 2nd RI Continental Line, Friends services at 10:30 AM on Sundays through His Majefty 54th Regiment of Foot, the Jamestown October and by appointment throughout the year. Band, the Cub Scouts, and an honor guard from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Saturday, July 22 Trolley Tours starting from the East Ferry Monday, May 29 10 AM / 12 PM / 2 PM Preview of Summer Exhibit in Museum Approximately 1½ hour tour of island. History of 10 AM to 12 PM historic homes and sites along the way. Free. Jamestown: Lost and Found, the 2016 summer exhibit, Monday, August 7 previews during the Memorial Day parade. Purchase Annual Meeting photographs and memorabilia of Jamestown at our Jamestown Philomenian Library, 7 PM porch sale. Open weekends 1 to 4 PM through June 18. Annual report of society. Election of officers and directors for 2017-2018. Guest speaker: Charlotte Friday, June 23 Taylor, author of the recently published Images of Summer Exhibit Opening Reception America: Rhode Island Shipwrecks. 5 to 7 PM Jamestown Museum Friday, September 15 Members Only party to celebrate the official opening Members Only House Tour Preview Party of Jamestown: Lost and Found, the 2016 summer exhibit. 5 to 7 PM Hors d’oeuvres, beer, and wine will be served. Enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres at an historic house. A $50 ticket includes entry to Saturday’s house tour. Saturday, June 24 Museum and Windmill Docent Orientation Saturday, September 16 Museum and Windmill Open for Summer House Tour 1 to 4 PM 10 AM to 2 PM New and experienced docents are invited to tour the Tour turn-of-the-century cottages along Conanicus mill with Windmill Committee chair Rosemary Enright Avenue south of Narragansett Avenue. Tickets $20. and review opening and closing procedures and/or to visit the museum where Jim Buttrick will do the same. Saturday, September 23 Smithsonian Magazine's Museum Day Museum and Windmill Summer Hours 11 AM - 4 PM Museum hours: 1 to 4 PM, Wednesdays through The museum, the meetinghouse, and the windmill will Sundays and holidays through Labor Day and be open longer hours to support RI Historic Sites Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays through Columbus Coalition participation in National Museum Day. Get Day, October 9. your ticket online and visit many RI museums free. Windmill hours: 1 to 4 PM, Saturdays, Sundays, and Monday, October 9 holidays through October 9. Jamestown Museum and Windmill Close Both sites will be open on Monday and Tuesday, July 3 Columbus Day. The last day this season to visit the and July 4. museum or drop by the windmill. Group visits can be arranged any time by calling 423-0784 or emailing your request to [email protected]. Go to jamestownhistoricalsociety.org for the complete Jamestown Historical Society calendar. 2 – Spring 2017 MUSEUM AND EXHIBITS Suzi Andrews Do you ever stop to think of how Jamestown has and we hope you will all stop by for a nibble and drink changed over the years? What has been lost and what and to hear Jim explain his vision for the exhibit. has been added? Jim Buttrick has, and this summer he The official opening to the public is Saturday, June has documented some of those changes in the exhibit 24, from 1 to 4 PM. From then until Labor Day, the at the Jamestown Museum, Jamestown: Lost and Found. museum will be open every Wednesday through For the last 100 years, the Jamestown Historical Sunday, plus both Monday and Tuesday of the long Society has been collecting pictures of the changing Fourth of July weekend – always from 1 to 4 PM. face of Jamestown. Jim, a lifelong summer resident of After Labor Day, we’ll only be open weekends until Jamestown, searched the postcards and photographs we close on Columbus Day, October 9. in the collection to select pictures of what once was Of course, the museum can only be open if here. He then went around Jamestown with his someone is there to greet the visitors. If you would camera and photographed what is here – matching the like to spend a quiet afternoon in an air conditioned scenes as exactly as possible. Sometimes, when a gallery, talking to people from both on and off island, building or area has changed several times, the exhibit please email Judy Bell at [email protected] or includes a photograph from an intermediate era. call 423-9152 to volunteer. And plan to visit the A members-only opening reception at the museum on June 24 to learn about opening and museum is planned for Friday, June 23, from 5:30 to closing procedures. 7:30. We’ve never held an opening reception before, 1940s 2017 Jamestown: Lost and Found 29 Narragansett Avenue Other Exhibits Around Town This winter, five separate exhibits were mounted preserve. The current library exhibit celebrates the in the JHS case at the Jamestown Philomenian Library. 75th anniversary of the Recreation Center building. For Christmas, we showed the society’s collection Library exhibits will continue to be changed about of Christmas cards sent by the Jamestown real estate every five weeks. firm of Meredith & Clarke in the 1940s and 1950s. To At the Lawn Avenue School, the spring semester draw attention to the society’s purchase of an 18th exhibit focused on the changing ways of getting to the century manuscript about the ownership of North island – from sail ferry to steam ferry to bridges – and Farm during the American Revolution, an exhibit was the effect on the population of the town. mounted describing the history of the farm. The permanent exhibit in the Rec Center is Other exhibits highlighted JHS acquisitions in discussed elsewhere, so all I will do is thank Carol 2016 and the successful efforts by the Jamestown Lake, Sue Maden, and Rosemary Enright who worked Garden Club to acquire the Salt Meadow for a wildlife so hard on all of them. 3 – Spring 2017 WINDMILL Rosemary Enright The windmill opens this year on Saturday, June We’ve already had our first visitors at the windmill 24. I will be there from 1 to 4 PM to help new docents this season. SafaRI, a tour group that conducts hiking learn the drill for opening and closing the mill and to tours of different town in the state, kicked off this refresh the memory of any docent who wishes to year’s "Discover RI" series with a tour of Jamestown come up for a visit. that started at the windmill. We’ll be open every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday Two groups of Jamestown students will soon be though Columbus Day, October 9. That’s 39 days coming up, too.
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