Tag: Haffenreffer Museum Of Anthropology
Brown University to move Haffenreffer Museum from Bristol to Providence
PROVIDENCE – Those looking to observe Brown University’s 1 million ethnographic objects and archaeological specimens displayed in the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology will have...
Brown receives $5M to prep Haffenreffer Museum for a move to...
PROVIDENCE – Preparation for a planned move from Bristol to Providence for the Brown University Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology was announced Thursday after the...
Providence’s neighborhoods in the spotlight with new online guides
On a sunny, June afternoon, two women stop to greet one another – one entering, one exiting Seven Stars Bakery on Hope Street, on...
There’s a cost to preserving history. Is R.I. willing to pay...
Rhode Island’s state archives, which include pre-1650 artifacts, have sat in nondescript commercial office space in a Providence flood zone, lacking proper preservation technology,...
Five Questions With: Leah Burgin
Leah Burgin joined Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology as the manager of museum education and programs in August 2017. Much of her previous...
For R.I.’s indigenous people, good jobs and prosperity are often out...
For 51 years, Robert Shumate said he has been “keeping South County cool.”
Owner of Pier Ice Plant in Narragansett and a Narragansett Indian Tribe...
Land trust agreed upon by Pokanoket, Brown for Bristol land
PROVIDENCE – After 37 days of encampment on Brown University land in Bristol, the Pokanoket Native American group and Ivy League university have agreed...
Tribe, Ivy League Brown debate law, morality
On Aug. 20 approximately 50 members of the Pokanoket nation, an indigenous group that claims ties to Colonial-era Wampanoag leader King Philip, or Metacom,...
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