Featured events & notes

Annual Walking Tour of Historic Pawtuxet Village

Come and experience history!

Knowledgeable docents guide you to historical venues where authentically garbed and well-rehearsed students assume roles of documented personages of Pawtuxet’s past. By your tour’s end, you’ll be amazed by what you didn’t know before about Pawtuxet and its role as a seaport and industrial hub around the time of our nation’s birth!

Tours leave the gazebo every 10 minutes. (Rain… » Continue reading

Garden Market Fair

Local vendors selling all-things garden related. Plants ranging from vegetables to landscape shrubs. All outdoors on beautiful grounds of Wilcox Park.

For information call 401-596-2877, Ext 334.

From the Ground Up: Grow Your Own

Whether you are looking for ways to convert your backyard into a lush garden space, or just trying to improve your yields while keeping your soil healthy and fertile, this introductory workshop is for you.

Since 1981, the Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT) has been teaching gardeners of all skill levels how to grow food safely and productively in Providence.

Rich Pederson will introduce you… » Continue reading

Babcock-Smith House Free Open House

Open house. Join the Babcock-Smith House for the reading of RI’s Renunciation Act, refreshment and tours of the 1734 home.

For more information call 401-596-5704 or visit babcock-smithhouse.com.

Flowering trees

Join Assistant Grounds Manager and Certified Horticulturist Dan Christina for a “Walk In The Woods” as he reveals and discusses some of Blithewold’s hidden horticultural treasures. Each month, topics such as texture, color, flowers, and their effects in the home landscape will be discussed. Tour topics are subject to change due to seasonal constraints.

Admission:
$5 for members
$7 for non-members

Memorial day

Arlington on Memorial Day (Photo: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

May 31 is Memorial Day. On our events page, we have listed three different parades you may want to see – or even participate in.

Click on one of them to see the details:

Users’ Guide to Health Care Reform
Health care
Image via Wikipedia

The AARP has released a bulletin to help you understand the new health care laws. Visit their website, at aarp.org, to view the bulletin at aarp.org.

Driving Ms. Empie

Empie asked me to join her as she picked up two large canisters of soup to be delivered to the fishermen on the wharfs at Galliee. Sponsored by the Seamen’s Institute, she and other volunteers ladle out soup to the cold and hungry on a twice weekly basis.

As you know, she is the Secretary and one of the founding members of SRI at Home… » Continue reading

The Blackstone Valley Boat Trip
Valley Falls Dam, Blackstone River, Rhode Island
Valley Falls Dam, Blackstone River. (Image via Wikipedia)

On Sunday July 11, fourteen members of South County House #1 took a tour on the Blackstone Valley Explorer, to visit the Blackstone River.

This is the only » Continue reading

If the shoe fits …
Gasthof, Pfalzgrafenweiler, Germany
Image by Joel Abroad via Flickr

A group of 40-year-old buddies discuss where they should have dinner. Finally it is agreed that they should meet at the Gasthof zum Lowen restaurant because the waitresses there have low-cut blouses and nice curves.

Ten… » Continue reading