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APRIL 2024 Newsletter

Embroidered Lives: South County Samplers and Their Stories

NOVEMBER 2023 Newsletter

APRIL 2023 Newsletter

Woven Art: Two Contemporary Weavers
An exhibition of the work of Norma Smayda and Jamiee Veronneau Roberts

November 2022 Newsletter

New Gilbert Stuart Dam a Marvel of Craftsmanship and Engineering

APRIL 2022 Newsletter

Hap-Harlots and Coverlids: the Life and Legacy of Weaver Rose

APRIL 2021 Newsletter

Museum Celebrates Ninetieth Year: Gilbert Stuart Memorial’s endurance is linked to Caroline Hazard’s exceptional leadership and generosity

NOVEMBER 2020 Newsletter

Happy Trails: Liam Gannon, a junior at North Kingstown High School, had visited the museum many times with his family

FALL 2014 Newsletter

One hundred fifty friends of the museum gathered to celebrate the long awaited grand opening of the Welcome Center and to kick off the opening of our very first exhibit

FALL 2013 Newsletter

Another dam problem After some heavy rains this summer, we noticed that one of the gates in the big dam had sprung a good-sized leak

SPRING 2013 Newsletter

Artist Shirley Bell, sister of Gilbert Stuart Museum President Dan Bell, has agreed to serve as the Honorary Chair of the Museum’s “Paint the Town Red!” August 9, 2013 gala

FALL 2012 Newsletter

GUBERNATORIAL PROCLAMATION! December 3, 2011 is declared Gilbert Stuart Day

SPRING 2012 Newsletter

Visitors to the Gilbert Stuart Museum may have noticed two new bat houses near the Mill Pond. These bat houses were made and installed by Girl Scout Kelsey Brown of North Kingstown Troop

FALL 2011 Newsletter

GUBERNATORIAL PROCLAMATION! December 3, 2011 is declared Gilbert Stuart Day

SPRING 2011 Newsletter

The Board of Trustees of the Gilbert Stuart Museum will ask Governor Chafee and the Rhode Island General Assembly to declare Gilbert Stuart’s birthday, December 3rd, Rhode Island Gilbert Stuart

FALL 2010 Newsletter

As a visitor to the Gilbert Stuart Birthplace strolls for the first time along a shady wooded path following the curves of the old Mettatuxet River, his imagination takes him back

SPRING 2010 Newsletter

We knew that the floors in the 260-year-old Birthplace were a bit crooked, but would they support a busload of tourists? Would the roof last another year?

FALL 2009 Newsletter

“Graveyards of North Kingstown”, published in 1992 by Althea McAleer and others, contains a listing of the names and locations of over 170 historic cemeteries in North Kingstown

SPRING 2009 Newsletter

Susan Letendre of North Kingstown began her Seven Story Market selling wares from south of the border. The basic premise of her

Take a step back in time. Visit the authentically restored and furnished 1750 home of the Stuart family and learn about the life of one of America’s best-known portraitists, Gilbert Stuart.

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