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Special Event
Event
"Revolution is in the Air" Winter Lecture Series: Discovering Snowtown
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Fee:
Free.Location:
Congdon Street Baptist Church, 17 Congdon Street, Providence, RI 02906Dates & Times
Date:
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Partner Program
Talk
Description
Heather Olson, Laboratory Manager for Public Archaeology Laboratory, will lead a discussion of the Providence Cove Lands Project; a large-scale archaeological excavation undertaken in downtown Providence during the early 1980s. Her presentation will discuss Providence’s nineteenth-century “Snowtown” neighborhood. Snowtown was noted for its constant flow of undocumented residents, ramshackle housing, and varying levels of what many city-dwellers at the time considered “unsavory behavior.” Regardless of contemporary perceptions, Snowtown’s residents were inextricably intertwined with the labor, transportation, and technological revolutions occurring in Providence during that time.