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Electricity Comes to Our Old Town Hall
Through a grant from the Rhode Island
State Senate we have added electrical service to 'The Old Town Hall'
building located on the Historical Society grounds. The funds were
used to add four flood lights in the rafters of the building and two outlets
which will be used to light the newly rewired lamp posts which we acquired
when the Mt. Hope Bridge was renovated. The 'Old Town Hall' was opened
to the public last season. It displays our agricultural exhibit as
well as our horse drawn vehicles.
Elmhurst School Photographers
Last June, twenty elementary student photographers from Elmhurst School took part in an enrichment project to illustrate a walking guide to the Glen Farm and Manor House area. Their photos were exhibited at the Portsmouth Free Public Library last August. Through the Walmart Foundation, we were able to print the trifold trail guides and we will have our first walk with the fourth grade classes of Elmhurst School. Some of the photographers have moved on to the Middle School, but 6 of the photographers will introduce the history behind the sites they illustrated. June 2nd the fourth grade class will picnic on the lawn of the Brown House (around 11:30) and then around noon we will walk back to the school, stopping at the stations on the trail - Red Cross House, Barn Complex, Old Mill Site on Glen Farm Road, Glen Park. The photographers will give a brief history of their special locations. Click here to see the Glen History Walking Trail trifold brochure in .pdf
The photographers are Lily
McCarthy, Katie Smith, Julie Freitas, John Kirkpatrick and Avery Boruch from
the 4th grade and Nick Pellechio from the 5th grade. We will be walking the
Brown House to Glen Barns loop of the trail. There is a second trail from
Glen Park around the
Manor House and over to Glen Ridge Farm.
The trail goes through Portsmouth
Town land which is free and open to the public. It really is a microcosm of
Portsmouth Town History and so much of it is history you can actually see.
Trail guides will be in mailboxes on the Brown House porch and at Glen Park
picnic site.
We have had the cooperation of the
Friends of Brown House, the Lower Glen
Farm Committee, the Glen Park Committee, the Glen Manor House Authority and
Glen Ridge Farm. We are
grateful to Walmart for their support. This truly is a collaborative
community project.
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