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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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