The Center’s annual holiday open house is a great chance to explore our exhibits and buy gifts for the history enthusiast on your list. The open house will also be the final day to view our popular “Mapping Memories: Wakefield’s Main Street” exhibit. As always, there is no charge to visit the Center.

Plantation Goods tells the story of early America through everyday artifacts, such as woolen dresses stitched in Rhode Island for enslaved women in South Carolina to wear. Following these goods from communities where they were made (including South Kingstown) to the places they were used, Plantation Goods rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom in the early United States and explores what it means to be “complicit.”

Join us for a talk with the author, Seth Rockman, who is an associate professor of history at Brown University. This program is free and open to the public (no registration required).