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- Spring 1634: Unidentified Indians kill John Stone, a scurrilous Englishman and pirate. The English blame the Pequots and for two years Colonial-Pequot tensions remain high. 1636: Block Island Indians kill John Oldham. The English send an expedition to punish the Block Islanders and to demand John Stone's killers from the Pequots. Talks with the Pequots break down and violence erupts. The Pequots attack English settlements, and the English declare war on the Pequots -- the first declared war in America. 1637: English Puritans, with Mohegan and Narragansett allies, burn a Pequot village at Missituck (Mystic), massacring 400-700 men, women, and children. The English pursue the remaining Pequots until most are either killed or enslaved. Pequots are forbidden to use their tribal name and are subjugated to other Native Tribes allied with the English. With the help of sympathetic English leaders, they eventually are able to reestablish their own communities, which become the first Indian reservations in America.
- SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is a historical documentary series told across eleven episodes that retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village created in Rhode Island, America.
- Mary Ann Esposito cooks delicious Italian dishes and teaches us a little something new about Italy every episode.
- Maria documented the cooking and food memories so vital to her childhood, rediscovering her family's traditional recipes and putting them into her first cookbook, Azorean Cooking: From My Table to Yours.
- A weekly PBS television show by teens about art, culture and places to go explore and visit. Confessions of a Teenage Critic (aka Teenage Critic) has been in production since 2010 and was created and produced by documentary filmmaker Lara Sebastian. The television show is comprised of different segments, with teens showcasing stories, films, and conducting interviews with important people and organizations. The teens who co-hosts also work behind the scenes as Production Assistants, Camera Operators, Editors, conduct research, marketing and production for the show.
- Tim Cranston, author and local historian, takes us on a "walking tour" of Wickford, focusing on historic houses, at one time the homes of people who made their living from the sea.
- Silverfield Hall mansion lies in the path of destruction: the town dam will be destroyed to return the land back to nature and flood the estate. As the Silverfield family is forced from their home, teen Annabel Lee Silverfield's behavior turns bizarre. Has she gone insane? Has a sinister force grabbed hold? Legend has it in 1893 the estate was the home of poet Nathaniel Silverfield, who murdered his fiancé and then himself. Will the flood water wash away the past, and with it the secret of Silverfield Hall?
- Each week, the Pell Center produces episodes of "Story in the Public Square," a public affairs television series. The show features interviews with today's best print, screen, music and other storytellers about their creative processes and how their stories impact public understanding and policy.
- Ghosts, spirits and vampires, Rhode island has had them all. From the elusive specters of Benefit Street, to America's most infamous folklore vampire. Join us as we uncover the legends and facts behind Rhode island's undead.
- Preservationist and Historian Joseph McGill's "Slave Dwelling Project" allows researches, historians, preservationists and students to join him at the sites of extant slave dwellings across the United States for an immersive over night experience that explores the lives of the enslaved peoples who once resided there. In this short documentary, McGill visits Smith's Castle in Rhode Island and is joined by students from the Cultural and Historic Preservation Program at Salve Regina University.
- Celebration of Music is a talent search that showcases the best young musical talent across the Globe. Singers, musicians, bands, and dancers between the ages of 5 and 25 are all encouraged to enter in their city by submitting an audition tape. The Celebration of Music concept was inspired by Ethan Bortnick and his desire to give young musicians the same opportunities PBS afforded him.
- In hopes of preserving their collection of military flags from a G.A.R. Post, the town of Bristol, Rhode Island reached out to the Varnum Armory Museum for their expertise. A priceless piece of history would be among the batch.
- Onne van der Wal: Nautical Photographer traces Onne's unconventional start, his unwavering work process, and the advice he gives photographers - both seasoned and starting out. Interwoven in the story are two of Onne's films: trap fishing in Rhode Island, and the exhilarating story of Comanche, a 100-foot super-maxi yacht, built to break records.
- Splendid Splinters is a documentary about the life of artist and sculptor Armand LaMontagne.
- A behind-the-scenes look of the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular at Roger Williams Park Zoo. See the spectacle, hear insider stories, and witness the infectious passion of the artists. You'll never look at pumpkins the same way again.
- Driven by the characters and events that fashioned Gorham's success and ultimate demise, the series examines the delicate craft of silver design and the crushing toll of mass manufacturing.
- The PBS Series Musicals in the Making Presents: Real Hard Math, An Original Musical with Book and Lyrics by Liz Suggs, Music by Josh Jung. Real Hard Math is the story of Lydia Larkin and her precocious students, Rusty Oldstone and Annabelle Scwhinn, as they compete at the Countcathelon Calculus Competition for fame, glory and a trip to space...camp.
- A historical look at the politics, people and process behind the original construction of the iconic span, featuring the untold stories of engineers, iron workers, divers, and the political players who brought the dream to reality.
- 2022– 58mNot RatedTV EpisodeOur story begins in Belper, England, the birthplace of Samuel Slater, who is known as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" in America but a traitor to his native land. After the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council connects with folks in the Derwent Valley, Belper artists who were once less than familiar with Samuel Slater find ways to creatively rediscover his story, while researchers dig up long lost information on the man they label "Slater the Traitor." After Samuel makes his way to America, he establishes a partnership with Moses Brown and William Almy in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and sends for his brother John with plans for greater expansion.
- 2022– 57mNot RatedTV EpisodeWhen brothers Samuel and John find a location in northern Rhode Island to create and control their own village, they transform the landscape by building a whole new mill, utilizing water power from the Branch River, constructing houses, and forcing those in an agricultural lifestyle to conform to their time-punching needs for manufacturing. John's wife Ruth plays a prominent role over the villagers. Through houses of worship, rules of temperance, and child labor, they struggle to control the lives of their rebellious workforce.
- 2022– 57mNot RatedTV EpisodeAs factory life establishes a profound ripple effect throughout the Blackstone Valley and beyond, one of its most massive by-products is found in Lowell, Massachusetts, where Slatersville native Dr. Elisha Bartlett becomes the city's first Mayor. Following his life in politics, Dr. Bartlett writes prolifically about medicine, poetry and teaching, becoming one of the world's most respected doctors of the era. As brothers Samuel and John, and his wife Ruth, approach the ends of their lives, their excruciating hardships of loss are felt, as their village must adapt to changing times. As French-Canadians immigrate to the neighboring city of Woonsocket during the Civil War, their population spills into to Slatersville, transforming its community into a foreign-sounding and multi-cultured village.
- 2022– 55mNot RatedTV EpisodeAfter William Smith Slater and John Fox Slater have spent decades building their family fortunes in the second generation, the brothers make conscious decisions on the distribution of their wealth for both family and country. Their presence is largely felt between Providence and Warwick, Rhode Island and Jewett City and Norwich, Connecticut. The lives of their own children are heavily considered, while the education of African Americans following the Civil War is systematically weighed. Despite the controversial means by which they built their estates, they each execute constructive paths for their monies to be spent, the ripple effects of which are still felt today throughout America.
- 2022– 1h 15mNot RatedTV EpisodeUpon inheriting his father's fortune, John Whipple Slater, owner of Slatersville, becomes an absentee landlord and embarks on extravagance. His excursions on multiple grand tours, big spending and bad behavior makes the national headlines, while his nephew Rufus Waterman III is invited to take over the family business and manage a mounting pile of problems on the home front. Through Rufus's thorough record keeping of diary entries and family letters (hidden for over seven decades), this period is dramatically reconstructed. With dying relatives, striking workers and negligent supervisors, the village descends into chaos and ruin as the Slater and Waterman families struggle to hold onto the foundation built by their fathers, leaving the future of Slatersville in peril.