Organized and led by Caleb Goodhouse of the Newport Restoration Foundation
Caleb Goodhouse is currently the Archivist & Digital Collections Coordinator at the Newport Restoration Foundation. He has lived in Rhode Island for the past five years. As a historian Caleb is interested in how changes in technology have affected our sense of identity and the ways in which we express identity.
Exploring the Landscape of Newport’s Quaker Community
Sunday May 4, 9am-10am
Meet at Brick Marketplace, Goddard Row
Starting from Brick Market, this walk will take us to the Great Friends Meeting House and then through Newport’s Easton Point neighborhood. Along the way we’ll discuss Newport’s Quaker community and its role in shaping the city’s society in the 17th and 18th centuries. We will reflect on Quaker values and practices while visiting where they lived and worshiped.
Questions to ask along the way: What do we know about the Quakers? How where they different from other religions in colonial America? In what ways did Quaker values and practices shape Newport’s urban landscape? In what ways did Quaker values and practices shape Newport’s economy? Do you think that present-day New Englander’s values and sense of identity are still influenced by the religious practices of the colonists? (Puritans, Quakers, Pilgrims)