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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Interview with Scott Molloy
Gorham's later years were marked by increased conflict between employees and management. Scott Molloy, a professor of labor and industrial relations at the University of Rhode Island, grew up in Reservoir Triangle. In this interview excerpt, he recalls a particularly bitter strike in 1976.
October 25, 2011
Interview with Wilbur Jennings
Wilbur Jennings, the Councilman for Ward 8 (Elmwood, Reservoir, West End) on the Providence City Council, is a long-time resident of the neighborhoods near Mashapaug Pond. In this excerpt, he shares some of his childhood memories, his thoughts about education, and his hopes for the future of the Gorham site.
December 3, 2011
Conversations
Class meeting
Looking closer
Getting ready
"Now we come to Mashapaug..."
"...it is essential to the health of the neighborhood that they be not polluted by dumping or the crowding of buildings on their shores."
-Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners to the Rhode Island General Assembly at its January Session, 1905.
Display case with Reservoir Triangle objects
Cabinet with Gorham objects
Includes a mold, a brick from the Gorham site, Erik Gould and Erik Carlson's photographs from the abandoned factory, and Gorham tableware.