by JHS | May 13, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
Many organizations – governmental, fraternal, and commercial – use patches sewn to uniforms, shirts, or hats to identify their membership. This month the JHS exhibit case in the foyer of the Jamestown Philomenian Library displays a variety of such badges from the...
by JHS | Apr 21, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
April is the month when, under Rhode Island state law, all dogs over three months of age must be registered. This April the JHS mounted two exhibits about Jamestown dogs and their registration. Various Jamestown Dog Tags Christmas Dog Parade. Lew Kitts and Ken...
by JHS | Mar 9, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The Jamestown Historical Society monitors eBay and other auction websites for objects pertaining to Jamestown. Over the last six years, we have purchased several archives and objects to add to the JHS collection. The new exhibit in the JHS display case shows some of...
by JHS | Feb 18, 2021 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The new exhibit in the JHS display case in the Jamestown Philomenian Library tells the stories of some of Africans and African Americans who have lived on the island over the passed 350 years. During the colonial era, Black and Native American slaves made up about...
by JHS | Dec 29, 2020 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
The new exhibit in the JHS display case in the Jamestown Philomenian Library celebrates the different ways the people in Jamestown supported its military forces fighting in Europe and the Far East from 1941 to 1945. Ambulance volunteers, c.1945 Those unable to serve...
by JHS | Nov 20, 2020 | JHS in the News, Library Exhibits
From colonial days till the present, aids to navigation – lighthouse, foghorns, buoys, lightships – have warned mariners of the risks ahead as they entered Narragansett Bay. Jamestown itself was home to four lighthouses, two on Conanicut Island, one on Gould Island...
