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#OTD in 1965 Governor John Chafee signed the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act. Recently digitized from our archive is this incredible footage (with sound) of that historic event which includes commentary from the famous civil rights activist Clifford Monteiro. #RIhistory

Great conference today from Digital Commonwealth. This from Jaccavrie McNeely is really resonating: "It’s really cool that we have something that dates back to the 1600s, but the average patron should be able to come in and see something that relates to them." #dcconference21

All over this in the kelly green! @ChrnclsOfMARMIA is my favorite archive to support!

I'm really sad to have missed the Pawtucket Red Sox era in Rhode Island, but at least I get to track down old footage like this first ever game at McCoy Stadium in #Pawtucket on April 24, 1970.

Fantastic piece from my friend Philip Eil about the US's obsession with "happiness." By the 3rd time my health insurance company sent me a text message pressuring me to sign up for their new app "Happify" in the middle of a pandemic I wanted to scream.

Check out our new project to put Rhode Island Historical Society film collections into the hands of new storytellers. We gave Creators 300 minutes of archival footage - they're giving us back remixed short films. Local folks, join us for outdoor screenings! Non-local, they'll be up on YouTube later!

It's going to be a beautiful evening for an outdoor screening! Join us at the ArchiveRemix.org Film Festival to see new short pieces created from the Rhode Island Historical Society film collections. Bring a chair + picnic to the RIHS lawn at 110 Benevolent St, PVD | 6:30 entry/7pm show time!

Thank you for the festivals #GeorgeWein. I only discovered this 1964 filmed interview in the archive about a month ago, and I feel very lucky to be able to put it out into the world today.

The Archive Remix Film Festival is back with all new digitized footage from our collections for you to play with! Put YOUR lens on history by remixing RI's filmed past into new short films that we'll screen together this fall. Signup and spread the word! bit.ly/RemixSignup

Beautiful piece from WPRI 12 featuring film from Rhode Island Historical Society of the 1st Pride parade in PVD in 1976. This is some of my favorite footage that I've ever found in our collections - great to see it shared so widely! Thank you Shiina LoSciuto for the story! #Pride wpri.com/news/local-new…

Tonight is the 2nd Annual Archive Remix Film Festival! Come watch what artists like Octavia's Favorite Ooloi, Abby Epplett, @kingkwana and Christina Smith have created from the Rhode Island Historical Society archival film collections. 7pm at Blackstone Valley Visitor Center in Pawtucket. bit.ly/ArtscapeRemix

Jahmal Williams stumbles on a clue about his grandmother’s history that answers a question he’s always had. bit.ly/3TrYXYR

Wonderful to hear audio from Rhode Island Historical Society's WPRI 12 collection included in this week's This American Life, and to see footage from our NBC 10 WJAR collection accompanying the episode on their site. Nothing better than getting history out of the archive and into the world!

Watch the video of Jahmal's grandmother, Lela Mae Williams, and her children getting on the bus that would take them north in 1962. This archival footage is from Rhode Island Historical Society's NBC 10 WJAR collection. youtube.com/watch?v=nU_xYA…