Rainy Day in Rhode Island - Roger Williams National Memorial, Providence, Fort Adams
On our way up to New Hampshire for a wedding we spent the day in Rhode Island exploring the area. We spent most of our time in Providence, Rhode Island. We explored Roger Williams National Memorial.
After that we explored the downtown area of Providence and walked around Brown University Campus for a little bit.
We had lunch at Iggy's Doughboys And Chowder House in Warwick. This place is amazing and if you are in the area you need to check it out.
After lunch we went over to Fort Adams National Historical Landmark. We didn't go inside since we were running low on time for the day.
We got a quick peak at the Castle Hill Lighthouse. And then we ended our day at Slater Park in Pawtucket.
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Roger Williams National Memorial sign Providence RI
This is a clip of the Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence, Rhode Island, near where he first settled in 1636.
Roger Williams well Providence RI Rhode Island
This is a clip of the original well at the Roger Williams National Memorial.
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The Roger Williams National Memorial is a landscaped urban park located on a common lot of the original settlement of Providence, Rhode Island, established by Roger Williams in 1636, bounded by North Main, Canal, and Smith Streets, and Park Row. The memorial commemorates the life of the co-founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and a champion of the ideal of religious freedom. Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs, and he founded this colony as a place where all could come to worship as their conscience dictated without interference from the state. This park is the 20th smallest national park in the nation.
Roger Williams original grave homestead site Providence RI
This is a clip of the strip of land that Williams owned after arriving in Providence, Rhode Island in 1636. In 1683 he was buried under an old apple tree in the back yard of the light sandstone house. He was later reinterred in Prospect Terrace Park. The root which grew in the shape of his skeletal remains is displayed in the basement of the John Brown House.
Church History: Roger Williams
Roger Williams, the founder of Providence Rhode Island, had a very different outlook on how the church should tell the world about Jesus.
Along the Blackstone Episode 47: Roger Williams and Our Religious Freedom
Nestled in part of Downtown Providence, Rhode Island, the only actual real open space in this industrial city is Roger Williams National Memorial, part of the National Park System, dedicated to the principal of freedom: free speech and freedom of religion. In today's world where religious freedoms are constantly being challenged, this oasis of thought provides the background to understand how America came to appreciate the concept of Freedom of Religion. Join us as Along the Blackstone's Episode #47 takes on a journey back to the time of Roger Williams in the 1630's where we will gain new appreciation for the extent of religious persecution that was part of the British North American landscape and how that applies to our world today. Join us as we come to know Roger Williams, a man who would argue over religious principles, but defend to his death your right to express them.
History With McNiff: What did roger Williams really look like?
We visit Ranger John Mcniff at Roger Williams National Park in Providence, RI. He gives us a bit of history on the man himself.
HISTORICAL PLACES OF STATE OF RHODE ISLAND,U S A IN GOOGLE EARTH
HISTORICAL PLACES OF STATE OF RHODE ISLAND,U S A
1. RHODE ISLAND STATE CAPITOL,PROVIDENCE 41°49'51.31N 71°24'53.56W
2. FORT ADAMS,NEWPORT 41°28'43.95N 71°20'14.09W
3. ST.MARTIN'S CHURCH,PROVIDENCE 41°49'55.57N 71°23'8.66W
4. PORT TOWER,NEW PORT 41°29'9.02N 71°18'35.48W
5. WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL,PROVIDENCE 41°49'30.75N 71°24'28.32W
6. FORT HAMILTON,NEWPORT 41°29'46.65N 71°20'28.02W
7. BAPTIST CHURCH,PROVIDENCE 41°49'39.00N 71°24'29.67W
8. ELMS,NEW PORT 41°28'40.04N 71°18'32.21W
9. GIANT BLUE BUG,PROVIDENCE 41°48'25.67N 71°24'20.44W
10. FORT WETHERILL STATE PARK,JAMESTOWN 41°28'42.72N 71°22'0.73W
11. ST.PETER & ST.PAUL'S CATHEDRAL,PROVIDENCE 41°49'9.78N 71°25'0.49W
12. MARBLE HOUSE,NEWPORT 41°27'43.45N 71°18'20.31W
13. ROGER WILLIAMS ZOO PARK,PROVIDENCE 41°47'11.25N 71°25'2.67W
14. FORT WETHERILL 41°28'40.27N 71°21'31.38W
15. BLOCK ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE,NEW SHOREHAM 41° 9'12.56N 71°33'8.03W
16. ST.JOHN'S CATHEDRAL,PROVIDENCE 41°49'51.80N 71°24'36.40W
17. FORT NINIGRET,CHARLESTOWN 41°22'52.30N 71°38'52.43W
18. EX USS SARATOGA (CV-59),PORTSMOUTH 41°31'38.44N 71°18'56.71W
19. FORT MANSFIELD,WESTERLY 41.306601°N 71.885122°W
20. ELL POND,ROCKVILLE 41°30′19″N 71°46′58″W
21. THE BREAKERS,NEWPORT 41°28'11.24N 71°17'53.48W
Woman Finds Closure as Father is Given New Resting Place
A Providence woman’s long journey to remove her father’s remains from the condemned Roger Williams Park mausoleum came to an end Monday as he was laid to rest at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter.
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul
John M. Barry (who starts at the 5 minute 30 second mark) speaks at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University on January 11, 2012 about his new book Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty. Using Roger Williams as his focus, Barry speaks about the intellectual forces that drove Williams to found Rhode Island as the first government on Earth that guaranteed freedom of conscience for people of all religion and people of no religion.
WaterFire Providence and the 2013 RI Rally4Recovery
The Rhode Island Rally4Recovery has been selected by Faces & Voices of Recovery as the 2013 National Hub event for rally celebrations held across the country. The free, family-friendly festival will take place on Saturday, September 21 from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Roger Williams National Memorial, 282 North Main Street in Providence. Rallies and other recovery events are held in September of each year, throughout the nation, as part of National Recovery Month.
The Rhode Island Rally brings together diverse segments of the recovery community including people in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, as well as mental illness. Many of their family members, friends and advocates for recovery also participate. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness by letting Rhode Islanders know that people can and do recover, treatment does work and there are many pathways to recovery. It provides those in recovery with the opportunity to share stories about their journeys to recovery and helps to dispel the negative public perception associated with substance use disorders and mental illness. It is important for people to know that, while the road to recovery may be difficult, the benefits of preventing and overcoming addiction and/or mental disorders are significant and valuable to everyone -- individuals, families, and communities.
For more information please visit rally4recovery.com
Event videogrpahy by John Mongeau - MongeauProductions.net
2013 RI Rally4Recovery Events:
Friday, August 30 Rally Kick-off
10:00 a.m. to Noon
Roger Williams Medical Center Cafeteria
Providence
Friday, September 20 Reception for Rally sponsors and honored guests
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Marriott -- Downtown
Saturday, September 21 Rally4Recovery -- Providence RI-National Hub Event
2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Roger Williams National Memorial
Downtown Providence
Tuesday, September 24 Recovery Housing Fair
2:00 p.m.
Anchor Recovery Community Center
September 25 Newport Rally4Recovery
1:00 p.m.
Atlantic Beach Club
Puritan Dissidents: Roger Williams
Williams refused demands from more senior Puritan ministers in Boston that he open his church to Puritans and non-Puritans alike. He founded Providence, where freedom of conscience was established. The clip is from a History Channel cartoon series for kids.
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Roger Williams Park
Last day in RI, sad to leave!
20110405 Roger Williams Final Quicktime
Introduction to Roger Williams and the notion of freedom of religion in the Founding of the state of Rhode Island and Plymouth Plantation
America the Beautiful - Founded on Calvinism.
The Story of Calvinism in the New World: A Synopsis.
Leonard W. Pine
[Leonard Pine is Field Director of the Presbyterian Missionary Union, and Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology at Western Reformed Seminary.]
Beginnings
The first Calvinists in the Americas arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1555. Gaspard de Coligny brought a French Huguenot expedition there, but its leader abandoned his Protestantism and shipped the refugees back to France as heretics. Another Huguenot refugee expedition arrived in Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1602. After a winter on the island of St. Croix the settlers moved to the mainland and established Port Royal (now Annapolis, Nova Scotia). Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec for the French in 1608. Once it was well established, the government of New France gave the Huguenots no liberty to worship or organize after about 1647 or so, and French Calvinism in the Americas dwindled away to nothing.
In 1562 another expedition went to the Florida coast, where three years later they were murdered by the Spaniards. Some Calvinists did manage to come and stay, though, establishing small churches in New Netherlands, Massachusetts, and South Carolina. From these modest beginnings the Protestant Reformation took root in America.
The English in America
Unlike the French, who wanted their heretics back so they could put them to death, the English were quite glad to be rid of the Puritans and for the most part let them go whither they would. Many went to the Virginia colony, where the Anglican Church was established in the charter of 1606. Pilgrims (the separatists of their day) and Puritans made their way to what would become the Plymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colonies. The Pilgrims at Plymouth listened to the preaching of John Robinson, whose ideas of a totally autonomous local church were a strange brand of Calvinism for the time, but a natural outgrowth of Calvinistic principles. The Plymouth Plantation members adhered to devout obedience to the Scripture interpreted according to Calvinistic hermeneutical principles and courageous living trusting in the sovereign providence of God.
The larger colony of Massachusetts Bay was founded in 1628-30, and by 1640 more than 20,000 Puritans had arrived. These were the flower of the Puritan movement, and they were led by such men as John Cotton, Thomas Mather, and John Davenport, all from Cambridge. Their Calvinism was not a rigid and static system, and they weren't happy with either episcopacy or Presbyterianism. Slowly congregationalism spread throughout the Puritan colonies, though retaining elements of Presbyterianism. Thomas Hooker promoted political suffrage to all free men, even if they weren't communicants in the church. In 1636 Roger Williams, who for his ideas of separation of church and state had been ousted from Massachusetts, founded at Providence the colony of Rhode Island, where he allowed just about anyone to come. 1636 also saw the founding of Harvard College. Some of the Puritans stressed the responsibility of men, others of the goodness of God; still others the entire Calvinist pattern of theology. Various synods were held to decide major issues facing the Church. The Westminster Confession was adopted bodily, except for the sections dealing with polity and discipline. Cotton Mather's writings, among others, indicate the acceptance of essentially Presbyterian views of the ministry. But the moral character of people started to slide, and revival would not come fully until Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening.
To read more on this, please go to:
Calvinism - A Worldview @
Loraine Boettner on Calvinism in America @
The Presbyterian Rebellion.
An Interview with Park Ranger John McNiff: Roger Williams and the Native Americans
National Park Ranger John McNiff of the Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence, Rhode Island discusses Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and his relationship to the Native Americans, with particular emphasis on Williams's revolutionary tolerance and humility in these interactions.
Published by Rebecca Farias for Dr. Carrington-Farmer's History in the Modern World class at Roger Williams University.
For use as an educational resource for the Rhode Island Foundation.
CTC NYC: Trailer Providence: The Story of Roger Williams
Website: childrenstheatercompany.org
2013 Rally 4 Recovery National Hub - Providence, RI
FHR is represented at the 2013 National Hub for Rally 4 Recovery at Roger Williams Memorial Park in Providence, RI
fellowshiphr.org
rally4recovery.com