South County Museum Presents: Music at the Museum

South County Museum 115 Strathmore Street, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States

Come to the South County Museum for live music! Featuring live musical performances from: DUDEMANBRO, GUESS METHOD, THE WATER PROJECT, RHODE TO BALI, and THIRD SIGNAL.

$20

Butts Hill Fort Restoration Committee Volunteer Summer Cleanup

Butts Hill Fort Gate 26 Butts Street, Portsmouth, RI, United States

Portsmouth, RI. The Butts Hill Fort Restoration Committee is seeking volunteers for our Summer Cleanup on Saturday July 1st (rain date is July 2nd). Wear your Red, White and Blue […]

Independence Day Open House at the Colony House

Colony House Washington Square, Newport, RI, United States

The Newport Historical Society is pleased to announce that on Tuesday July 4th the Colony House will once again be open to the public, continuing a years long tradition. The […]

Nathanael Greene Homestead Independence Day Open House

Major General Nathanael Greene Homestead 50 Taft Street, Coventry, RI, United States

What better place to celebrate Independence Day than the National Historic Landmark home of Revolutionary War Patriot Hero and George Washington's Second in Command and Most Trusted General, Nathanael Greene?! […]

Rhode Island Historical Society Presents: Annual Goff Lecture Examining 100th Anniversary of Peking Express Hijacking

Aldrich House 110 Benevolent Street, Providence, RI, United States

Join the Rhode Island Historical Society on Wednesday, July 12 at 5:30pm for its annual Goff Lecture featuring author James Zimmerman and his latest work The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China. Zimmerman will tell the story of the 1923 hijacking of the luxury Peking Express, whose […]

Free

Clam Cake Land: The Origins and Enduring Popularity of a Local Summer “Sacrament” Explained

Clarke Center 170 Clarke Road, Narragansett, RI, United States

Join the Narragansett Historical Society Thursday, July 13 at 6 p.m. at the Clarke Center (170 Clarke Road) for an interesting talk by Great Clam Cake and Fritter Guide author Carolyn Wyman. She will discuss the communal consumption of clam-flavored doughnut holes and how this treat was a near-sacred summer ritual in Rhode Island and almost nowhere […]