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A New Vision for Newport’s Hunter House

A New Vision for Newport’s Hunter House

BY LESLIE B. JONES, NICOLE J. WILLIAMS, AND MARYKATE SMOLENSKI

The Preservation Society of Newport County reopened its landmark colonial property Hunter House with a new guide-led tour that highlights the experiences of the home’s many occupants, including generations of prosperous merchants and enslaved and free people of African descent.

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Sculpture at the End of Slavery

Sculpture at the End of Slavery

BY CAITLIN MEEHYE BEACH

A new book interrogates how a wide range of objects—from antislavery medallions to statues of bondspeople bearing broken chains—gave visual form to narratives about abolition in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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SAVE THE DATE
  • Special Program: Tour of the Newark Museum with retiring Chief Curator Ulysses Dietz November 3
  • New York Antiques Weekend January 19-20, 2018
  • Emerging Scholars Colloquium January 21, 2018
  • Symposium Upper Hudson River Valley: From the Mohawk to the Berkshires May 3-6, 2018
  • Symposium New Orleans & the Mississippi Delta November 1-4, 2018
  • Study Trip Prague & Vienna with an extension to Budapest With an extension to Budapest October 1–11 and 16–26, 2018; Extension October 12–15

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