Tuesday, August 15, 5:30 PM
By the Sea: Watch Hill Memories.
Premiere Viewing
A film presentation hosted by The Watch Hill Memorial Library and Improvement Society
Free admission.
Watch Hill, 1886.
Wednesday, July 19, 6:00 PM
The Chaplin B. Barnes Reading Room
Lanphear Livery
One Bay Street, Watch Hill, RI
Attendance is FREE
Sponsored by The Westerly Library & Wilcox Park and The Watch Hill Conservancy
Captain Jack Spratt will discuss the historical significance and context of a series of rare images taken of Watch Hill in July and August of 1886. Sponsored by the Watch Hill Conservancy and The Westerly Library and Wilcox Park. Jack will take the audience on a historical journey of Watch Hill in the summer of 1886 at the dawn of the cottage colony,the inauguration of the outside Block Island Steamship landing, the Rhode Island State Constitutional Prohibition Amendment of 1886, the two shipwrecks on East beach that summer and many other interesting events from his book, Watch Hill, 1886
A Presentation by Captain Jack Spratt
Wednesday, June 28, 6:00 PM
The Chaplin B. Barnes Reading Room
Lanphear Livery
One Bay Street, Watch Hill, RI
Attendance is FREE
Sponsored by The Westerly Historical Society and The Watch Hill Conservancy
Last Call. Rummrunners, Bootleggers & Watch Hill.
Thirteen years of prohibition did not diminish the public’s appetite for alcohol. Captain Jack Spratt recounts the colorful story of Watch Hill residents and hotel guests who relied on rumrunners to keep them supplied – if the smugglers could evade the Coast Guard, the Police and hijackers!
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Dr. Peter August
Professor Emeritus, University of Rhode Island Department of Natural Resources Science & Conservancy Vice President
and Dr. Bryan Oakley
Associate Professor of Coastal Geology, Eastern Connecticut State University & Assistant Chairman of the Department of Environmental Earth Science
Special Presentation: Climate Change Impacts to Watch Hill
For the past three years, The Watch Hill Conservancy has led a community effort to understand the anticipated climate change impacts of nuisance tides, sea level rise, and sever storms. Napatree Science Advisors, Dr. August and Dr. Oakley, update us on their findings.
Dr. Rob Bierregaard
Academy of Natural Sciences
Drexel University
Journeys: The Annual Cycle of New England Osprey – From our Shores to South America… and Back
The worlds foremost expert on Opsrey conservation and ecology.