Hipses Rock, marking the Providence-Johnson border, was described in 1904 by Sidney Rider in The Lands of Rhode Island as “the ‘most western’ bound fixed ‘in his own person’ by Miantinomi to the lands Deeded to Roger Williams. According to Rider, “the name Hipses came probably from the Latin word Hesperius, meaning towards the west, or the […]
Sowams Heritage Area Coordinator Dave Weed presented The Untold Story of the Massasoit and the Colonists to about forty participants in the History Camp at Pioneer Valley in Holyoke, MA, on July 27, 2019. Nearly one hundred people attended the all day event at Holyoke Community College organized by Cliff Mcarthy of the Pioneer Valley History Network. […]
Williams College History Professor Christine DeLucia, speaking to a capacity crowd at the Little Compton Community Center on July 25, 2019, described “the confluence of longstanding Native places with colonial ones and its influence on shaping how we remember and honor it, inviting us into a better/greater understanding and acknowledgement of its complex and challenging history.” […]
Members of the Pokanoket Tribe came to Camp Wetu at Mount Hope Farm on July 22, 2019 to teach leather craft and to share some of their traditional stories and dances.In the first hour, campers were taught how to make a leather pouch using sinew to sew it together. Click here for the web page […]
Pokanoket Tribe members Blue Shell, Hawkswanee and Two Deers taught a group of children at Camp Wetu how to make a leather pouch, similar to what American Indians may have made. Camp Director Carolyn Westgate and her camp counselors gathered the children at the Education Center where materials for the workshop were laid out. After […]
The Roger Williams University Fund for Civic Activities awarded the First Congregational Church in Bristol a $2,500 grant in June, 2019, to design and install an historic interpretive marker in front of the Church, the first in a series of markers within the Sowams Heritage Area. Once completed following a review by the Bristol Historic and Preservation Society […]
Dr. David Weed gave a 45-minute presentation on the Sowams Heritage Area Project to about a dozen residents of North Farm in Bristol, RI. He was approached by a resident at the Mt. Hope Farmers’ Market several weeks earlier and asked if he would like to tell some of the residents about the 17th century […]
Over 300 members of the Pokanoket Tribe and guests came together on June 23, 2019 at Cove Cabin on Mt. Hope Farm in Bristol, RI, to celebrate the annual Strawberry Moon Thanksgiving. The afternoon event included drumming, dancing and food, including lots of fresh strawberries. Chiefs from half a dozen tribes who are part of the Federation of […]
Neighbors and City officials gathered at Prospect Terrace on June 18, 2019 where a statue of Roger Williams overlooks downtown Providence to celebrate the restoration of the Terrance and the 80th anniversary of the reburial of Roger Williams remains at the park. City Parks and Recreation Superintendent Wendy Nilsson welcomed about 75 people to the […]
As part of a month-long Peace Walk, members of the New England Peace Pagoda met with members of the Pokanoket Tribe on June 17, 2019 at the marker where Metacomet was slain at Mt. Hope in 1676 at the close of the King Philip War. The group chanted prayers at the Metacomet Marker before the Sagamore shared the history of the Tribe since […]