PRESENTS YOUR COMMUNITY CALENDAR /ecture series launches at MuseuP of :ork &ulture today
:22NS2&. T 9alley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures by the MuseuP of :ork &ulture, begins today, Sunday, January . All e ents are free and take place at p.P. on ooP. This year s series is presented as part of the Rhode ,sland istorical Society s Taking a Stand in Rhode ,sland, a yearlong e aPination of how the people who ha e called this place hoPe, froP the th century to the recent past, ha e identified aspects of society that needed to shift and how they worked to change theP.
The series will kick-off with istory All Around 8s .ing 3hilip s :ar, a talk by National 3ark Ranger John McNiff.
&alled the deadliest war in APerican history, .ing 3hilip s :ar was fought right here in southern New ngland. Roads, landParks, and businesses all Pirror naPes froP this war. ut what was really happening :hy, after generations of APerican ,ndians and nglish li ing side by side did this war coPe about
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McNiff was born and brought up in R,. e attended Rhode ,sland &ollege and recei ed his A in istory with a Pinor in Anthropology in .
2ther 9alley Talks will include January :riter professor rik &haput will present on the life of ThoPas :ilson orr and the rebellion for constitutional reforP in Rhode ,sland that bears his naPe.
ebruary ilPPaker &hristian de Re endes will screen a piece of the in-progress Slaters ille APerica s irst Mill 9illage, which will focus on the Pan who purchased the Slaters ille Pill and illage in .
ebruary :riters Rebecca AltPan and .erri Arsenault will e plore their work about New ngland Panufacturing and the en ironPental, political, and personal legacies it has left behind.
March :riter and historical reenactor 3aul ourget will e aPine the Sentinelle Affair, the local underground Po ePent that led to the e coPPunication of congregants.
March Author a id 9erPette will discuss how the 8.S. PainstreaP percei ed rench-&anadians when they were an iPPigrant coPPunity in New ngland at the turn of the th century.