'Extraordinary' exhibit extended at library

Exhibit features extraordinary women of the East Bay

Posted 6/24/19

A multi-dimensional exhibit of banners and photographs now displayed throughout the first floor of the Barrington Public Library has been extended until Wednesday, July 31.  

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'Extraordinary' exhibit extended at library

Exhibit features extraordinary women of the East Bay

Posted

A multi-dimensional exhibit of banners and photographs now displayed throughout the first floor of the Barrington Public Library has been extended until Wednesday, July 31.  

Extraordinary Women of the East Bay is a historical exhibit of 55 women who gave generously through their vision, courage and work to enrich the culture, education, health and heritage of Rhode Island. The exhibit was conceived and organized by Heidi Benedict, archivist at Roger Williams University, with support from 19 local historical and preservation societies, the Heritage Harbor Foundation, and the library staffs of Salve Regina and Roger Williams Universities.

The Barrington special installation was undertaken by Barbara Hail, Julia Califano, Maria Bruce and Bonnie Warren of the Barrington Preservation Society Museum Committee with full support of Kris Chin, director of the Barrington Public Library. Items, photographs and clothing are from the museum's extensive Nicholas Gizzarelli, Sr. collection and from private sources.

The exhibit offers people the chance to see:

• The uniform of Mira Hoffman, founder of Girl Scouts in Barrington in 1916 and national president, and photographs of the Maple Avenue Community House for new Italian families that she co-founded in 1920; 

• Photograph of E. E. Cummings and his daughter Nancy, who was a Luethi-Peterson camper and donated 800 of his paintings to help fund Natalie Peterson Luethi's international camp, organized to increase peace and understanding in the future by combating prejudice in youth;

• Mary "Happy" Tefft White's watercolors and a program celebrating her founding of the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center at Roger Williams University; 

• Barrington Times "Newbie" bag used to hand deliver the newspaper which had Kitty Stewart Shad as its first female editor, plus a Times photograph of the human chain that carried 6,000 books from Town Hall to the new Barrington Public Library, whose renovation Kitty chaired and which has become a major cultural center for the East Bay.

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