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Providence/Newport Rhode
Island Annual Meeting
Schedule at a Glance




Wednesday June 1  
  9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Board of Trustees, Marriott Renaissance, Mozart Room
  1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Registration at Marriott Renaissance. Link Foyer
  6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Opening Reception and Fun Auction, Marriott Renaissance, Temple Foyer/Handel Room
Thursday, June 2  
  7 a.m. Walking tour of historic waterfront by Rhode Island Historical Society (optional, $5)
  9 a.m. Bus departure
  9:30 a.m. John Hay Library, presentations by staff and society member retired Judge Frank Williams
  11:30 a.m. Lunch at Brown University Faculty Club
  1:30 p.m. John Carter Brown Library followed by
Optional architecture/garden tour ($12)
  Late afternoon/evening Free time
   
Friday, June 3  
  8:15 a.m. Bus departure
  8:30 a.m. Rhode Island Historical Society tour
  10 a.m. John Brown House Museum
  12:30 p.m. Lunch at the Hope Club (Business Meeting)
  2 p.m. Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library
  Evening free
   
Saturday June 4   Sponsored by Skinner Auctioneers & Appraisers  
  8:30 a.m. Bus departure
  9:30 a.m. Naval War College Museum/Library
  11 a.m. Marble House, guided tour by Paul Miller, Preservation Society of Newport County
  12:15 p.m. Lunch at historic White Horse Tavern
  2 p.m. Redwood Library and Athenaeum tour, presentation, and reception
  4 p.m. Return to Marriott Renaissance
  6 p.m. -9 p.m. Closing Dinner, Presentation by Dr. Linford Fisher on Native American Manuscripts in the Colonial Era, Talk sponsored by Ira and Larry Goldberg Auctioneers
   
Extra Day—Sunday, June 5—Newport, Rhode Island  
  8:30 a.m. Bus departure
  9 a.m. International Tennis Hall of Fame
  11 a.m. The Elms, guided tour by Paul Miller. Lunch at the Elms
  12:30 p.m. Touro Synagogue, Sponsored by John Reznikoff, University Archives
  2 p.m. 80 Division Street, tour of prize-winning restored eighteenth-century townhouse owned by society member Nicholas Scheetz, with exhibit of autographs
  5 p.m. Bus returns to Providence, drop-off at Providence airport for those having flights departing later than approximately 6:30 p.m.