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  • Stephen Hopkins Breakfast Talk

    Stephen Hopkins: The Complicated Life of RI’s Founding Father

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Trustee and OLLIE instructor Mark Burnham Come learn about the complicated life of one of RI's Founding Fathers, Stephen Hopkins, and how this self-taught person helped shape political and economic life in the U.S. colonies. We'll look at some events in Rhode Island leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776…

  • Roots & Routes A Walk through History

    Roots & Routes – A Walk through History

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Roots & Routes is about discovering Smith’s Castle - not just as a historic building, but as a living landscape. The ‘roots’ represent both the native plants that have grown here for centuries and the deep cultural roots of the people connected to this land. The ‘routes’ are the paths walked over time — by…

  • Music on the Meadow - South County Revival

    Music on the Meadow – South County Revival

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Another Summer Evening on the Meadow When the music started at our first Music on the Meadow event, we knew we had something special. Families spread out across the lawn on their blankets and lawn chairs. Guests arrived carrying everything from simple picnic baskets to elaborate charcuterie boards worthy of a magazine cover and of…

  • Afternoon Tea with Marilyn Harris

    Afternoon Tea & Presentation by Marilyn Harris as Abigail Adams

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Tea & Presentation in the Updike Dining Room The Declaration: Not Just Jefferson Tea * Fruit * Scones Tea Sandwiches * Sweets Marilyn Harris, Docent & Castle Historian, will share observations about the sources of Jefferson's ideas and words in the Declaration as might have been made by Abigail Adams in letters to her "Dear…

  • African American Responses to the American Revolution in Rhode Island

    African American Responses to the American Revolution in Rhode Island

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Keith Stokes, Rhode Island Historian Laureate How did the enslaved feel about the phrase "All Men Are Created Equal"? Come join Rhode Island's Historian Laureate for a talk about the African American response to the onset of the Revolution, the oral history, and the cultures that kept this "unwritten" history alive, despite the upheavals and…

  • Threads of Time: Unravelling the History of Block Island Shipwrecks through Quilts and Their Makers

    Afternoon Tea & Presentation by Janet Dionis, Block Island Historian

    Smith's Castle 55 Richard Smith Drive, North Kingstown, RI

    Threads of Time: Unravelling the History of Block Island Shipwrecks through Quilts and Their Makers The wrecks of three ships, the Warrior, the Spartan, and the Larchmont, are all connected in an unusual way—calico. A study of Block Island quilts and the discovery of a quiltmaker's diaries add richness and dimension to the history of…