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Annual Report 2o18 Ice pack around Newport Bridge construction, photographic negative, January 13, 1968. JOHN T. HOPF COLLECTION, NHS 2017.004 All Digital All Digital Programs Programs Tours Tours Museum Museum Special Events Special Events Academic Services Academic Services visitation Visitation of all kinds grew at the NHS by over 30% this past year. While the bulk of the growthLibrar ywas in digital attendance, the Museum of NewportArchives History & Shop and the satellite exhibit at thePhotographs/C Resourceollec tion Center together drew significantly higherReady numbers Reference Image Requests than in several recent years. Does this represent a visiting public which is more interested in history today than last year? A change in the way we have marketed ourselves? Or was this just a good weather-year for visiting Newport? We are currently examining data to try to answer that question. newporthistory.org At the same time, the growth in number andshopnewpo qualityrthistor y.com of our digital offerings has made our websitenewpor a thistormoreytours .org visited, more useful tool for people planningmappingnewpor a visit t.org to Newport or looking for more informationcollections about.newpor thistory.org revolutionarynewport.com our history. If you have not recently donestampac so, taketnewpor a t.org look at www.newporthistory.org! youtube.com Facebook Twitter Instagram Websites vs. Social Media Website .................. 173,826 Social .................... 28,324 Websites Social Media Sarah Long, Molly Bruce Patterson and Ruth Taylor preparing an exhibit. page 18 v newport historical society visitation Total Visitation 2018/19 2017/18 All Digital All Digital All Digital ........ 202,150 142,487 AllPrograms Digital AllPrograms Digital Programs ......... 2,106 2,704 PrToursograms PrToursograms Tours ............ 3,649 3,145 TMuseumours TMuseumours All Digital All Digital Museum.......... 17,111 12,187 MuseumSpecial Events MuseumSpecial Events Programs Programs SpecialAcademic Events Services SpecialAcademic Events Services Special Events ..... 1,480 1,735 Tours Tours Academic Services Academic Services Academic Services . 707 766 Museum Museum Special Events Special Events Total .......... 227,023 163,024 Academic Services Academic Services Academic Services Visitation Library LibrarArchivesy Appointments ArchivesPhotographs/Collection Library ................... 86 Photographs/CReady Referencollece tion Library Archives.................. 118 ReadyImage ReRequestsference Archives Photographs/Collection ..... 28 Image Requests Photographs/Collection Services Ready Reference Image Requests Ready Reference........... 407 Image Requests............ 68 Total ................... 707 newporthistory.org Online Visitation newporshopnewpothistorrthistory.orgy.com shopnewponewporthistorrthistorytoursy..orcogm newporthistory.org .......... 122,728 newpormappingnewporthistorytourst.org.org shopnewporthistory.com ..... 19,717 newporthistory.org mappingnewporcollections.newport.orthistorg y.org shopnewporthistory.com newporthistorytours.org ...... 18,074 collecrevolutionartions.newporynewporthistort.comy.org newporthistorytours.org mappingnewport.org ........ 1,774 revolutionarstampactnewporynewport.orgt.com mappingnewport.org collections.newporthistory.org. 3,587 stampacyoutube.tnewporcom t.org collections.newporthistory.org youtubFacebooke.com revolutionarynewport.com .... 982 revolutionarynewport.com FaTwittercebook stampactnewport.org ........ 5,795 stampactnewport.org TInstagrawitter m youtube.com youtube.com . 1,169 Instagram Facebook Facebook.................. 23,649 Twitter Twitter ................... 1,444 Instagram Instagram................. 3,231 Total ................... 202,150 annual report 2018 v page 19 Websites WeSocialbsites Media Social Media Websites Social Media education Newport History Tours Group Tours WALKING TOURS SCHOOL GROUPS Discover Colonial Newport Bay Farm Montessori Golden to Gilded Colt Andrews School Holiday Lantern Tour Davisville Middle School Road to Independence Glenn Hills Elementary Rogues & Scoundrels Meadowbrook Waldorf School North Kingstown Middle School SITE TOURS North Providence High School Colony House Providence Country Day School Great Friends Meeting House Roger Williams University Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House Rogers High School Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House Salve Regina University St. Margaret’s School SPECIAL TOURS OF THE MONTH Creative Survival St. George’s School Rum and Revolution Wickford Middle School Colonial Jewish Newport History Space Events The French in 18th Century Newport A Revolutionary Spinning Bee Legends and Lore Undressing History: Active Pursuits, Women’s Sportswear The Uncommon Women of the Common Burying Ground c. 1900 Interpreting Difficult History for the Public A Colonists Wardrobe 18th Century Tailoring The Newport Stamp Act Protest & Martin Howard Sixth Annual Living History Event: The Burning of HMS Liberty Visit the Apothecarist Living Historians portraying a Spinning Bee at the Sixth Annual Living History Event. page 20 v newport historical society education History Space Partnership Programs Redcoats at the Redwood, Redwood Library and Athenaeum Undressing History: Active Pursuits, Women’s Sportswear c. 1900, Rhode Island Historical Society Interpreting Difficult History, Boston Freedom Trail Foundation What Cheer Day: Sports and Games from the 18th Century, Rhode Island Historical Society Special Events The Newport Show Fourth Annual Culinary Adventure: Speakeasy Soirée Programs Colonial Survival & Modern Revival: Newport in the History Starts Here: Newport Historical Society Annual 1960s - John Tschirch, Mapping Newport- collaboration Meeting & Award Ceremony with Newport Restoration Foundation July 4th Open House at the Colony House “The Epic History of America’s Most First Freedom Open House Tours of the Great Friends Notorious Pirates” - Eric Jay Dolin Meeting House & Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House, 2018 Annual Meeting - Website launch and “The Vintner in collaboration with the Four Faiths program and the Indian” - Dr. Elaine Forman Crane and “Frère et Concitoyen”: A Newporter in Revolutionary William Claggett Exhibit Opening: My small Ability France, guest lecturer William Simpson Outlander Cast Season Four Finale Party in partnership “I am an honest woman”: Female Revolutionary with Outlander Cast podcast Resistance along the Seacoast, guest lecturer John Clarke’s World, guest lecturer Cherry Bamberg Dr. Emily Murphy Theophilus North: Thornton Wilder’s Love Letter to Newport, in partnership with the Thornton Wilder Family Exhibits Colonial Survival & Modern Revival: Newport in the Craftsmen and Consumers: Transantlantic Commerce 1960s - John Tschirch, Mapping Newport - collaboration in 18th Century Newport – Museum of Newport History, with Newport Restoration Foundation February 2019-present From Saints to Bootleggers: The Struggle for “My small Ability” The Life and Work of Temperance and Prohibition in Rhode Island, William Claggett – Newport Historical Society Resource guest lecturer Robert Geake Center, December 2018 to September 2019 Shoes & Their Secret Stories, guest lecturer Dr. Kimberly 50th Anniversary of the Newport Bridge – Museum of Alexander Newport History, May 2019-present Remembering Slavery, the Rhode Island Slave History History Mystery: The Newport Towert – Museum of Medallions Project, guest lecturer Joanne Pope Melish Newport History, July 2019-present annual report 2018 v page 21 education Newport History Videos (Available Online) Will Simpson – “Frère et Concitoyen”: A Newporter in Revolutionary France Museum of Newport History – History Starts Here Robert A. Geake – From Saints to Bootleggers Ruth S. Taylor – Interpreting Difficult History for the Public Theophilus North: Thornton Wilder’s Love Letter to Newport Cherry Fletcher Bamberg – John Clarke’s World Quinn Burgess – Undressing History: Active Pursuits, Women’s Sportswear c.1900 Big Ideas for a Changing World Essay Contest 10th Grade Winners sponsored by dwight & susan sipprelle Young people do care about history. 2019 essay winner selfie. Not only do they care, but they also understand that events from the past and how we interpret them can shape our population can be a source of strength. The essays are future. And, with a little encouragement (OK, maybe a lot), contemporary and historical, and they reflect an impressive they can express it in ways that are meaningful and moving. group of young people thinking hard about their world. This is the third year that the Newport Historical Society sponsored a contest that asked Rhode Island high school 2018-2019 ACADEMIC YEAR ESSAY sophomores to write about something happening in their CONTEST WINNERS: community that had the capacity to create change – to make history! The winners got a trip to see the award-winning Fiona Christensen, Middletown High School, Broadway Show, Hamilton: An American Musical. “College Education” The students who enter the contest are not much younger Emma Darcy, Exeter West Greenwich High School, than Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Lafayette and the “Medicated Assisted Treatment in Rhode Island” Schulyer sisters were on the eve on the American Revolution. And like these young adults from America’s past, today’s Esmerelda Flores, Central Falls High School, youth are equally worried about the world and their nation. “Reducing the Stigma of Depression” They care deeply about how past and current events both big Nkèke Harris, East Bay MET, and small will impact the future. “Pajeh