Visitors and exhibit planners
Trees around Mashapaug Pond
Tracing Mashapaug mini-exhibit, Knight Memorial Library, December 1, 1-4pm
<p><span style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;"><span><span style="color:#000099;">Do you have stories of Mashapaug Pond, the Gorham Manufacturing Company, and Providence's Reservoir Triangle and West End? What was there before the industrial park next to Mashapaug Pond? Did you participate in the Tracing Mashapaug project? <br /><br />Join us for an exhibit of community tracings and oral histories!</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;"><span>¿Tiene</span><span> Ud. historias del lago Mashapaug, la empresa Gorham Manufacturing, y los barrios del Reservoir Triangle o el West End de Providence? ¿Qué estaba allí antes del "parque industrial" al lado del lago Mashapaug?<br /><br />Exhibición de <span>trazados</span> comunitarios y historias orales<br /></span></span><span style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;">Knight Memorial Library Auditorium,<a title="Knight Memorial Library" href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=knight+memorial+library&hl=en&sll=41.816992,-71.42118&sspn=0.132797,0.31105&hq=knight+memorial+library&t=m&z=15" target="_blank"> 275 Elmwood Ave</a>, Providence<br /></span><span style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;">Saturday, December 1<br /></span><span style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;">1-4pm</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;"><span><span style="color:#000099;"><span>Sábado, 1 de diciembre <br /></span><span>Biblioteca Knight Memorial, 275 de la Ave. Elmwood</span><br /><br /></span></span><span><span style="color:#000099;">Refreshments will be served. Don't forget to stop by the Friends of the Library's book sale, going on next door!</span></span></span></p>
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<div><span><span style="color:#000099;font-family:garamond, serif;font-size:large;"><em>This event is generously supported by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and sponsored by the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island, Urban Pond Procession, and the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University.</em></span></span><span><br /></span></div>
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Toxic waste sites pamphlet
The Rise and Fall of the Gorham Empire
At the dawn of the twentieth century, the Board of Trade and other boosters of Providence, Rhode Island proclaimed that the city contained the “Five Industrial Wonders of the World” – one of them, the nation’s leading producer of silverware, the Gorham Manufacturing Company. How did such a large and important company disappear? [quote from John K. Towles, “Factory Legislation of Rhode Island,” American Economic Association Quarterly, 2 (Oct, 1908). [volume 9, number 3]
Sarah Yahm
The Jewish Community in Providence
Congregation of the Sons of Israel and David Cemetery sits near the Pond, at 460 Reservoir Avenue. Why is it there? What is the Jewish history of the site?
Lucy Boltz
The Industrial Park
When and why was the industrial park built on the northwest edge of the pond? What did it replace?
Lizzy Landau
The Church of the Nazarene First
What is the history of the Church of the Nazarene First (170 Reservoir Ave)? Is it the only church to occupy this site? What is its role in the neighborhood?
Aditi Pinto
Telling stories
Tagliaferri family tree