Tech Tuesday In-Person

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Tech Tuesday In-Person

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Spring Garden Expo In-Person

Spring is in the air -- join us for our third annual Spring Garden Expo!This FREE event will feature free seeds, soil testing, and advice from URI Master Gardeners, gardening books for sale, a raffle to benefit outdoor library programming, family activities, as well as ......More

Spring is in the air -- join us for our third annual Spring Garden Expo!This FREE event will feature free seeds, soil testing, and advice from URI Master Gardeners, gardening books for sale, a raffle to benefit outdoor library programming, family activities, as well as representatives from organizations around New England.Soil Sampling Instructions: For best results, use a spade to collect a thin slice of soil from the root zone, about 6 inches down. Take about 1⁄2 cup from each of several spots in the same area (for example, the lawn or the vegetable garden) and mix them together. Allow the soil to air dry on newspapers – please make sure the soil is dry before having it tested. Put about 1 cup of the mixed soil into a clean plastic or paper bag and label it with the area it came from. Bring it in for a FREE test! Trained URI Master Gardener volunteers will test your soil’s pH, evaluate its texture and give you a report with recommendations for actions to improve it. This event does NOT require registration, but you may sign up below to receive email reminders.

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Tech Tuesday In-Person

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John Fitzgerald History Lecture: Nathanael Greene--Rhode Island's Unsung Revolutionary War Hero In-Person

Details to come. This is our annual John Fitzgerald History Program, hosted by the Friends of Tiverton Libraries.About the presenter: After a 21-year career as an infantry officer in the Army, Fred Zilian was an educator at Portsmouth Abbey School, where he taught histo......More

Details to come. This is our annual John Fitzgerald History Program, hosted by the Friends of Tiverton Libraries.About the presenter: After a 21-year career as an infantry officer in the Army, Fred Zilian was an educator at Portsmouth Abbey School, where he taught history, ethics, and German, and an adjunct professor of history and politics at Salve Regina University. He now lectures on a wide variety of subjects, gives literature and poetry readings, and offers tours of Newport, the Battle of Rhode Island (1778), and Boston. Zilian holds a Ph.D. in international relations/strategic studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and book reviews on a wide variety of subjects in numerous publications and platforms from the Wall Street Journal to the Newport Daily News. For 10 years he was a regular columnist for the Newport Daily News. He has also published a book: From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Takeover of the National People’s (East German) Army by the Bundeswehr. For 20 years he performed as Abraham Lincoln in his one-man play, “Honest Abe.”This program does not require registration, but you may sign up below to receive email reminders of the event. [Image: Smithsonian Institution - National Portrait Gallery, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons]

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Tech Tuesday In-Person

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Tech Tuesday In-Person

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Tech Tuesday In-Person

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Rhode Island Independence Day In-Person

What happened on May 4th in 1908? Why is the figure on top of the Rhode Island State House called 'The Independent Man?' What was the "lively experiment" of 1663?Come find out the answers to these and other questions you might have about the smallest state in the United......More

What happened on May 4th in 1908? Why is the figure on top of the Rhode Island State House called 'The Independent Man?' What was the "lively experiment" of 1663?Come find out the answers to these and other questions you might have about the smallest state in the United States of America. Susan Anderson from the Tiverton Historical Society will give a presentation on "Rhode Island Independence Day" in the Community Room.Susan is the Outreach and Education Director and webmaster for the Tiverton Historical Society, Chair of the Tiverton Historic Preservation Advisory Board, and secretary of the Tiverton Historical Cemeteries Commission. She was a member of the Tiverton Open Space Commission for 15 years, and was Chair of the Stone Bridge Area Improvement Task Force. She is most interested in the American Revolution and the role this area played during it. In her research, she discovered that her 1822 house in the Osborn-Bennet National Register Historic District is situated on land where Continental soldiers were encamped. However, the only things her late husband and she have unearthed while digging their gardens are mule shoes and harnesses, pieces of pottery and old bottles, and lots of oyster shells.Registration is not required for this program, but you may sign up below to receive reminders of this event.

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Tech Tuesday In-Person

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