East Providence Historical Society

50th Anniversary Year

“2nd Sunday” Spring Open Houses

March 12/ April 9 / May 14
1:00 - 3:30pm

John Hunt Museum - 65 Hunts Mills Road - 02916

“Hikes”: meet Ernie Germani of the EP Conservation Com. at the gazebo -1:30

Exhibit: “Hunt’s Mills: A 100 Year Retrospective Through the Lens of a Camera”

From 1895 - 1925, Hunt’s Mills was the most famous area in the Rumford section of East Prov. mainly because of the amusement park built by the Rumford Baking Powder Com-pany for its employees but also because of the natural beauty of the site with the falls, rapids, and the Ten Mile River which encloses the property. It was said to be the most painted and photographed site in the entire area in the early 1900s and some of those pro-fessional photographs/ postcards are in the Hunt House collection. This spring the muse-um highlights those photos/ postcards and features them along side the work of five local amateur photographers who capture Hunt’s wildlife and beauty today.

General Meeting/Pot Luck - March 27
Newman Church Hall - 100 Newman Avenue
Pot Luck - 6pm - Program 7pm (coffee and dessert at 6:45)

“Birds Of The Blackstone”

This Spring, the EPHS will feature 3 programs about the Blackstone Valley Corridor/ Na-tional Park of which Hunt’s Mills defines the southeastern boundary. The first of these programs, co-sponsored with the 10 Mile River Group and the EP Conservation Commis-sion, presents naturalist/ horticuluralist Rosanne Sherry and her acclaimed talk about the birds on this flyway. Rosanne is no stranger to Hunt’s Mills, as she directed the Master Gardener start-up program there. She is an interpretive volunteer with the Corridor/ Na-tional Park Service, garnering awards for her work in 2016. The public is welcome at the Pot Luck supper - please bring a main dish / salad to share.

April 24 program: Atwater/ Donnelly Duo for a musical look at the times celebrated by the Corridor - co-sponsored with the Weaver Library
May 22 program: Nat’l Park Head Ranger Kevin Klyberg - place :TBA

Visit the new EPHS web site at www.ephist.org.

The EPHS is a volunteer organization in its 50th year dedicated to the preservation of lo-cal history. We maintain the c.1751 John Hunt House Museum/ genealogy library at 65 Hunts Mills Road in the Hunts Mills Local Historic District, participate in the URI Master Gardening program, and provide educational programs open to the public. For more information visit info@ephist.org or call 401-438-1750