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Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories: Him Thappa and Her journey from Bhutan/ Nepal as Told to Camille MacLean
Get PDFHim Thapa was born in Bhutan, then lived in a refugee camp in Nepal for eighteen years before emigrating to the United States a little over five years ago with her husband and children. In this interview, Him discusses her life in Southern Asia, her reasons for emigrating to the U.S., and the problems that she encountered along the way, as well as the resources that helped her and her family assimilate in Providence, Rhode Island
A Plantation on His Own Land in Carolina: The Archaeology of Lord Ashley’s St. Giles Kussoe [video]
No full textMarcoux discusses the discovery of what could be the oldest intact brick foundation in the Carolinas, the search for a suspected defensive moat surrounding the site, evidence for trade with Native American groups, and various artifacts associated with the daily lives of Europeans, enslaved Africans, and resident Native American traders
Henrietta Overing Auchmuty’s Forgotten First Marriage
No full textBorn on 13 June 1760, Henrietta Overing was the daughter of prominent Newport distiller and sugar refiner Henry John Overing. Growing up in one of the thriving city’s wealthiest families gave great promise that she’d lead a comfortable, prosperous life. As she entered her teen years, however, political turmoil in the colonies descended into warfare; half a year after her sixteenth birthday this war became tangible to Henrietta and other Rhode Islanders when a large British military force arrived in Narragansett Bay and occupied the two main islands there, setting up headquarters in the town of Newport. Many residents fled, including some prominent merchants; others stayed either to cooperate with government forces or to look after their own. This article takes a look into a chapter in Henrietta Overing Auchmuty’s life that has been overlooked by history. Perhaps she would’ve wanted it that way, for it is a story of romance turned into heartbreak and bitterness
The Nice Paper as a MacIntyrean community of virtuous practice: A wunderkammer of resistance to late-capitalist modernity in Rhode Island, 1989-1995
No full textThis dissertation is an epistemological study of virtue and its place in addressing the transdisciplinary question What is a good life? Alasdair MacIntyre\u27s three-pronged account of virtue is applied to a case study of the Nice Paper, an alternative newspaper published in Rhode Island from 1989 until 1995, in order to discern the workings of virtue as resistance to late-capitalist modernity. It was discerned through hermeneutic phenomenology that the practices, traditions and narrative unity of the community of the paper were expressed in the sub-communities of alternative-ness, journalism, being in and of Providence and Rhode Island, being a maker and do-er, and art. The paper functioned as a well curated wunderkammer, itself like a work of art. The application of MacIntyre\u27s account was expanded, and the interpretation included the discovery of the Nice Paper\u27s being a community of virtue, in which the individual was transformed from plain person to moral philosopher through the practices that aimed not only at the goods of the sub communities, but also at the greater good of human flourishing. A bridge to the classical virtues courage, justice, and hope is developed. The findings merit the consideration of the paper as a model of a community of practice offering a good life. The study puts forth a historical account of the moral, political, and aesthetic structure of feeling, and argues for a place in the history of Providence and Rhode Island
Editor\u27s Note
Get PDFDuring the first half of the 19th century, Newport fostered the political ambitions of Thomas Wilson Dorr, who sought to implement a “People’s “Constitution” in Rhode Island to replace the original colonial Charter. In 1844, Dorr found himself on trial for treason in Newport’s Colony House. This historical event is the subject of the first article in this issue of the journal by Erik J. Chaput and Russell J. DeSimone. During the last half of the nineteenth century, the Auchincloss family was part of the so-called New York invasion that spurred the dramatic economic and social development of Newport as a leading American resort. The story of this family’s residency on Aquidneck Island over several generations is the subject of an article compiled by Richard J. Lundgre
Early Years of the Auchincloss Family in Newport
No full textThe Auchincloss family and Hammersmith Farm are indelibly linked in the public mind, not only in Newport but also across the country as Hugh Dudley Auchincloss II was the stepfather of Jacqueline Lee “Jackie” Bouvier, the future wife of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Few are aware, however, that the Auchincloss family first came to Newport in 1851 and built a house between 1856 and 1857 on Washington Street in the Point section of the city. The family lived there for three decades before building Hammersmith Farm on Ocean Drive between 1887 and 1888
Salve Regina University Sixty-Fourth Annual Commencement program, 2014
Get PDFThe Commencement program details the order of exercises, academic honors, and graduates.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/commencement-programs/1066/thumbnail.jp