Mark your 2024 calendar for the eleventh season of On Pettaquamscutt, Presentations on the Environment and History of the Narrow River Watershed.
This winter speaker series is a collaboration between the Friends of Canonchet Farm, Narrow River Preservation Association, South County Museum, and the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library. On Pettaquamscutt had a very successful ten-year run before going dark during COVID, but we’re back up and running for 2024 with three great Sunday afternoon talks (all starting at 1:00) at the new Narragansett Library.
March 24: History of the Watershed in Maps and Aerial Photos
Peter Stetson, President of Education Mapping Service, will show us interactive GIS mapping centered on the South County Museum and the Narrow River Watershed, and their history through aerial photography.
Previous Presentations this season:
February 25: Restoring Salt Marsh in the John H. Chafee National Wildlife Refuge
Many thanks to Nick Ernst, Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and Ben Gaspar, Restoration Ecologist at Save the Bay, for their important update on efforts to stave off the threats from sea level rise to salt marshes in the watershed.
January 28: Dressed for Life and Leisure, 1870 to 1920
Rebecca Kelly, Deputy Director and Curator at the South County Museum, discussed nineteenth-century clothing from the museum’s collection highlighting both high fashion and leisure ware, as in what does the fashionable Narragansett visitor wear to the beach in 1900.
Click here to see the slideshow from Rebecca J. Kelly’s excellent presentation at On Pettaquamscutt January 2024.
On Pettaquamscutt is a collaboration between the Friends of Canonchet Farm, Narrow River Preservation Association, South County Museum, and the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library.
All talks are free and open to the public. Participants can register here at OnPettaquamscutt.org or at the calendar page of the library website to reserve a seat. Registration will open at the beginning of the month for each presentation. For more information, visit OnPettaquamscutt.org or call
401 783-5344.
Learn about On Pettaquamscutt presentations from previous years here:
