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Concert: Manabu Takasawa at the piano

Apr 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Events, Featured
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Man­abu Taka­sawa at the piano (classical).

Praised for his “sen­si­tive touch” by The Wash­ing­ton Post and for his “beau­ti­ful sound with an abun­dant sense of fan­tasy” by Musica Nova mag­a­zine (Japan) pianist MANABU TAKASAWA made a solo recital debut at The <a class=“zem_slink” title=“John F. Kennedy Center…



11th Annual Walking Tour of Historic Pawtuxet Village

Apr 14th, 2011 | By | Category: Events, Featured

Three years before that other colo­nial hero, Paul Revere, made his famous ride, a band of colonists from Paw­tuxet torched the British ship HMS Gaspee, mark­ing the very first armed con­flict of the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion.

The Annual Walk­ing Tour of His­toric Paw­tuxet Vil­lage is a his­tory chap­ter like no other. With…



Hello, Dolly!”

Apr 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured

Inspired by the sat­is­fac­tions dis­cov­ered on our group-​​​​SRI trip to a pro­duc­tion of “Cats” in Feb­ru­ary at Bris­tol Com­mu­nity Col­lege in Fall River, we are work­ing to orga­nize group atten­dance at an up-​​​​coming pro­duc­tion of “Hello, Dolly!”.

The set­ting will be the very accom­mo­dat­ing Mar­garet L. Jack­son Arts…



Film: Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dickinson

Apr 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Events, Featured
Like Emily Dickinson

Loaded Gun: Life, and Death, and Dick­in­son is a doc­u­men­tary about Emily Dick­in­son writ­ten and directed by for­mer Jamestowner Jim Wol­paw. Read reviews at Dickinsonfilm.com.



Concert: Belsky-​​Maxwell Piano Duo

Apr 8th, 2011 | By | Category: Events, Featured

The Belsky/​​Maxwell duo began in 2005, when these col­leagues and friends dis­cov­ered how remark­ably well matched they are at the key­board. Their artis­tic part­ner­ship debuted con­spic­u­ously with a standing-​​​​room-​​​​only per­for­mance of Mozart’s glo­ri­ous Con­certo for Two Pianos with the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Sym­phony Orches­tra in Jan­u­ary 2006, in cel­e­bra­tion of…



Eights Bell Series: China, The US and 21st Century Sea Power

Mar 29th, 2011 | By | Category: Events, Featured, News
USS Panay on patrol in China.

China, The United States and 21st Cen­tury Sea Power: Defin­ing a Mar­itime Secu­rity Part­ner­ship edited by Andrew Erick­son, Lyle Gold­stein, and Nan Li. (Buy it at Ama­zon)

This is the fourth book in the series on “Stud­ies in Chi­nese Mar­itime Devel­op­ment” and looks at China’s rise to power and the restruc­tur­ing of the global bal­ance of power. The…