Last Saturday, May 18th Wyman Elementary School parents, teachers, and students kicked off Gaspee Days celebration in Warwick, Rhode Island's Historical Pawtuxet Village. Students dress in traditional colonial clothing and perform an enactment of what life would have been like in that colonial period. Positioning themselves in front of historical places, such as the Pawtuxet … [Read more...]
Pawtuxet River Dam Removal Project Slideshow
The lower Pawtuxet River Restoration Project planning happened in 2010 with the beginning of the restoration beginning in late spring of 2011. For eons before industrialization the river flowed freely throughout Rhode Island eventually flowing over bedrock into Narragansett Bay. When industrialization took a foothold on the rivers' edge dams were built and used to power textile … [Read more...]
