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December 2021
Community Tamalada
Making Tamales is a family tradition and community ritual among Mexican, Mexican-American people that is also shared by a diverse mixture of Latin American cultures. The tradition of…
Find out more »Great Holiday Traditions: Favorite Christmas Songs
Streaming online December 21 - 31 GREAT HOLIDAY TRADITIONS is Mixed Magic Theatre's yearly ode to the holiday season. This year’s MY FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONGS is ringing…
Find out more »January 2022
Valley Talk #1: “The Battle of the Gravestones & The Saylesville Massacre of 1934” – Patrick Conley
The Valley Talk series will kick off with The Battle of the Gravestones & The Saylesville Massacre of 1934, a talk by Secretary-Treasurer of the Rhode…
Find out more »DEM Outreach – Otters, Beavers and Muskrats oh my!
Otters and Beavers and Muskrats, oh my! Join the DEM Division of Fish & Wildlife outreach program to learn all about these three species of semi-aquatic…
Find out more »Slatersville: The End of Heaven, Part I
As the young men and women return home from serving abroad in World War II, the children of the late 1940s and 50s recall an idyllic…
Find out more »Celebrating Color – An Online Show
Color is an important part of our society and our lives. It conveys information and emotion and its presence (and absence) is instrumental in the creation…
Find out more »Valley Talk #2: “The Power of Objects” – Noriko Sanefuji
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures by the Museum of Work & Culture, continues Sunday, January 23 at 1pm on Zoom. In this presentation,…
Find out more »Work/Life Winter Series – Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
Join the National Park for a free virtual series of winter workshops on how people have worked, rested, and played in the Blackstone River Valley. Together…
Find out more »February 2022
“A Viler Place Never Yet Existed:” Snowtown in Early Nineteenth-century Providence
Heather Olson and Andrew Polta, of The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., will discuss the Providence Cove Lands Project; a large-scale archaeological excavation undertaken in downtown Providence…
Find out more »Valley Talk #3: Entangled Landscape – Chuck Arnig and Bruce Curliss
Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures by the Museum of Work & Culture, continues Sunday, February 6 at 1pm on Zoom. In this talk,…
Find out more »Romance After Dark
Join the Rhode Island Historical Society on Thursday, February 10th at 6pm for Romance After Dark, a virtual evening filled with craft cocktails, cheese samplings, and…
Find out more »Virtual Valentine’s Day Children’s Baking Class with Gingersnaps Bakery
The Museum of Work & Culture is offering its annual Children’s Baking Workshop with Gingersnaps Bakery this year in a virtual format with curbside pickup bakers…
Find out more »Rhode Island Watercolor Society – Vision ’22
Theme: A new year begins! This theme is wide open to interpretation. This show will be taking place online and will not be displayed physically in the…
Find out more »Day of Remembrance 2022: Executive Order 9066 and Its Legacies
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized removal of people of Japanese ancestry from the west coast of the…
Find out more »Valley Talk #4: Before Hollywood. There was Vaudeville – Kathryn Sos-Hayda and Irene Blais
In anticipation of the Museum of Work & Culture’s 25th anniversary exhibition “Hollywood Comes to Woonsocket,” researcher Kathryn Sos-Hayda and Woonsocket Historical Society President Irene Blais share their research on…
Find out more »March 2022
Valley Talk #5 – In the Beginning: Origins of the French-Canadian Exodus, 1826-1861- Patrick LaCroix
The final Valley Talk will feature scholar Patrick Lacroix presenting his talk “In the Beginning: Origins of the French-Canadian Exodus, 1826-1861.” The American immigration story is…
Find out more »Parked at Home: Community
Travel through the sites that make up Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, connecting with national park staff from important sites along the way. Over the…
Find out more »RIWS 126th Annual Member Show Exhibit
RIWS Presents: 126th Annual Artist Members Show Featuring the Al Albrektson Award of Excellence and the Gail Armstrong Memorial Award We are pleased to announce a…
Find out more »“Family Memories: A Conversation About Camp and Its Aftermath”
Virtual Panel Discussion Explores Japanese-American Experiences During World War II Join the Museum of Work & Culture, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society, on…
Find out more »Parked at Home Series: Construction
Featuring Cuyahoga Valley National Park During this talk, we’ll be connecting with folks out in Ohio to talk about canals. Who built the infrastructure that made…
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