Gravestone Girl Brenda Sullivan presented “Welcome to the Graveyard,” a virtual tour of Bristol’s cemeteries at the Bristol Statehouse. “Cemeteries are living history museums. You can walk through that gate at any moment in time and be transported back to two, three, in some cases four hundred years.” Brenda focused on the evolution of cemeteries over […]

Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator Dr. David Weed presented a proposal for establishing interpretive signage at eight locations throughout the Area, including one in the Rehoboth Village, to members of the Rehoboth Historical Commission. The signs provide information about events and locations from the 17th century that can still be found today. The Commission has […]

DiscoverNewport Sales Manager Chris Siravo, Senior Communications Manager Andrea McHugh, and CEO & President Evan Smith met with Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator Dave Weed met to discuss possible collaborations. DiscoverNewport leads travel and tourism development and marketing in nine coastal communities, including Bristol, Warren and Barrington, part of the Sowams Heritage Area. The four […]

VisitRhodeIsland Director of Tourism, Mark Brodeur, met with Sowams Heritage Area Project Director Dave Weed to talk about ways they could partner to connect tourists with the 17th century in the East Bay and nearby Massachusetts. Mark invited Dave to develop half-day guided tours of both Providence and of the East Bay that would reveal […]