2025 event
Please note: There is no strawberry festival this year!
It was incorrectly advertised in local media that our Strawberry Fest was happening again this year. While there will be no event this year, you are welcome to stop by and enjoy a tour of the Castle and grounds, at 11am-3pm. at the top of the hour. We look forward to seeing you!
Board of Trustees Meeting June 12th 6pm
Local Event with South County Table
June 21st Juneteenth Celebration, RISHM
Newport, R.I.
Our friends from the Rhode Island Slave History Medallion Assoc. celebrate the liberation of the enslaved at the close of America’s Civil War.
Conversations at the castle
Tuesday June 24th 6pm
Michael Simpson
Professor and Cocumsscusoc Association trustee will give a presentation. More details to follow.
Local Event with SC Table
June 28th 9:00-3:30 p.m.
“Forgotten Founders: The Underwritten of the American Revolution”
Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House Museum/St. Luke’s Church
Trustees Bob Geake and Jason Roomes are part of the presentations in this event. Geake’s presentation will be Witness to a Fragile Freedom: Resurrecting the Life of Silas Royal.
Tea and History
SOLD OUT
July 13th – 4:30-6:00pm Tea plus Marilyn Harris – “Mary Katherine Goddard and Declaration of Independence” Mary Katherine’s mother was Sarah Updike Goddard.
*See Tea and History Page Here for more details
Tea and History
Sunday August 10th—4:30-6:00pm Tea plus John Dower. Details to follow.
*See Tea and History page Here for more details.
Breakfast talk
Saturday September 13th 9:30am
Akeia de Baros Gomes
The newly appointed Director of the Wanton- Lyman-Hazard Historic House Museum in Newport, the first such museum in the State to be dedicated to black history, will discuss the mission of the house as part of the Newport Historical Society, and its role in educating visitors and native Rhode Islanders.
Tea and history
Sunday September 14th 4:30-6:00. SC Tea plus Ann Casey & the Rhode Island Master Gardeners. Talk about the Smith’s Castle Gardens and Garden Tour.
*See Tea and History Page Here for more details.
Special event: Multi-media show Reception
Smith’s Castle as Seen and Imagined
Opening and Reception
Saturday September 20th 9:30am-11:00am
(on display through October)
**more details on this event to come!!
Special Event: Seminar
Roger Williams and His World
Saturday September 27th 9:30am-3:00pm
Roger Wiliams and His World. This all-day seminar will feature both indigenous and other voices in a discussion of the history of early New England’s colonies and Roger Williams role as the founder of Rhode Island’s “lively experiment.” Guest Speakers: Charlotte Carrington-Farmer PhD. Professor of History, Roger Williams University, Adrian Weimer PhD. Professor of History, Providence College, and others TBA.
Breakfast Talk
Saturday October 11th 9:30am
John Dower, Former President of Cocumscussoc Association and Historian, and Marilyn Harris, Historian. They will speak about documents from the State Archives related to R.I.’s part in the Revolutionary Period.
Conversations at the castle
Thursday October 16th 6pm
Dr. Thomas F. Army Jr. PhD.
The historian and professor of History from Quinebaug Valley Community College will give a presentation entitled Rhode Island Quakers and Slavery: It’s More Complicated than you Think.
Breakfast talk
Saturday October 25th 9:30am
Mark Burnham
Our own legal historian and trustee will give a presentation on the 14th Amendment of the United State’s Constitution and what the Founders intended by granting birthright citizenship.
breakfast talk
Saturday November 8th 9:30am
Robert A. Geake
Public historian and Trustee offers a presentation entitled “Citizens for the First Time: How New England Communities Contributed to the Cause of Liberty.” This talk is based upon information from his new book New England in the American Revolution: Stories of Starvation, Disease, and Determination.
Christmas at the castle
December 6th and 7th (Saturday and Sunday)
*Details TBA
Christmas Tea
Sunday December 14th
Late 18th Century Fashion Show by the Ladies of the Greene.
*SOLD OUT*