Past Events
Talk: The American Revolution and the US Army Begin
VFW Post, Portsmouth, RI,
June 18, 2025
Talk: Life on Aquidneck Island during the British-German Occupation
Middletown Library, Middletown, RI,
May 10, 2025
Talk: Paul Revere's Ride: Longfellow's Mistakes
Portsmouth Free Library, Portsmouth, RI, May 7, 2025
Talk: Paul Revere's Ride: Longfellow's Mistakes
Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI , April 22, 2025
Talk: The British-German Occupation (1776-79)
Newport Public Library, March 19, 2025
Dialogue w/ Charles Roberts: Rum and Slavery in Colonial RI
A Dialogue, RI Slave History Medallions, Newport Craft Brewing Co., February 28 2025
Talk: The RI Campaign and the Battle of RI
Talk, RI Historical Society, Teachers Workshop, February 27 2025
Talk: Challenges & Choices
Talk to the Portsmouth Abbey Community, February 14, 2025
Talk: The Battle of Rhode Island (1778)
Talk at Tiverton Public Library, January 7, 2025
Private Talk: Overview of Newport History and Oceancliff Sites
Talk at Oceancliff for Marine Max/Azimut Rendexvous Group, July 24, 2024
Lecture: Slavery in Colonial Rhode Island
Lecture at Brownell Library, Little Compton, RI, June 22, 2024
Juneteenth Celebration: Newport Black History Tour
Inaugural walking tour for RI Slave History Medallions, June 15, 2024
History of Newport thru the Gilded Age
Talk at Tiverton Library, Tiverton, RI, 6:30 pm, November 28, 2023
The Queens of Newport's Gilded Age
Talk at Newport Public Library, Newport, RI, 6 pm, November 21, 2023.
History of Newport thru the Gilded Age
Talk to Jet Blue Executive Board, 41* North, June 27, 2023
Founders of Rhode Island
Talk at George Hail Library, Warren, RI, 6 pm, June 26, 2023.
Elisha Hunt Rhodes: Rhode Island Soldier of the Civil War
Talk to Quindecim group, 6:30 pm, May 16, 2023.
Pegasus Enrichment Services
Notable Women of Rhode Island (Elliott, Jones, Red Wing)
Talk at Blithewold
Bristol, RI
10:00 am, Saturday March 23, 2024
For tickets:
(https://www.blithewold.org/event/notable-women-of-ri-elliott-jones-and-red-wing/ )
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Multi-Media, Dramatic Reading
Provence sur Mer
39 Touro St., Newport, RI
7-8:15 pm, Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- In 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, published this poem about a mariner’s life-changing experience. The old mariner is now destined to relate his tale to those he recognizes must hear it. Come hear it and enrich yourself.
- Experience this multi-media, dramatic reading by Fred Zilian, Ph.D., of this 18th century poem, dealing with human judgment and our relationship with nature and with God.
