A/V Curator & Archivist at the Rhode Island Historical Society, "arkivnerd" per Norwegian media, views my own
Joined April 2012
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5 May 2022
Thank you @rhodeislandpbs for the great profile of the @RIHistory Moving Image and Audio Collections! It's wonderful to see so much of our footage highlighted! Particular shoutouts to @NBC10 and @wpri12 whose #newsfilm is the backbone of our film archive.
watch.ripbs.org/video/hollyw…
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Becca Bender retweeted
18 Oct 2022
Watch the video of Jahmal's grandmother, Lela Mae Williams, and her children getting on the bus that would take them north in 1962. This archival footage is from @RIHistory's @NBC10 collection. youtube.com/watch?v=nU_xYAmz…
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Becca Bender retweeted
17 Oct 2022
Jahmal Williams stumbles on a clue about his grandmother’s history that answers a question he’s always had. bit.ly/3TrYXYR
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17 Oct 2022
Wonderful to hear audio from @rihistory's @wpri12 collection included in this week's @ThisAmerLife, and to see footage from our @NBC10 collection accompanying the episode on their site. Nothing better than getting history out of the archive and into the world!
17 Oct 2022
Jahmal Williams stumbles on a clue about his grandmother’s history that answers a question he’s always had. bit.ly/3TrYXYR
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1 Oct 2022
Tonight is the 2nd Annual Archive Remix Film Festival! Come watch what artists like @RaiMckTerry, @Abby_Epplett, @kingkwana and @christina9397 have created from the @RIHistory archival film collections. 7pm at Blackstone Valley Visitor Center in Pawtucket.
bit.ly/ArtscapeRemix
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18 Jun 2022
Beautiful piece from @wpri12 featuring film from @rihistory of the 1st Pride parade in PVD in 1976. This is some of my favorite footage that I've ever found in our collections - great to see it shared so widely! Thank you @ShiinaHL for the story! #Pride
wpri.com/news/local-news/pro…
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17 Jun 2022
The Archive Remix Film Festival is back with all new digitized footage from our collections for you to play with! Put YOUR lens on history by remixing RI's filmed past into new short films that we'll screen together this fall. Signup and spread the word! bit.ly/RemixSignup
16 Jun 2022
Join the RIHS for the 2nd Annual Archive Remix Film Festival! Create your own films using at least 75% of RIHS archival footage! Check out this short video explaining the project in more detail, and sign up by following the link in our next tweet! (1/2)
youtu.be/O1M-tm6VWlA
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14 Sep 2021
Thank you for the festivals #GeorgeWein. I only discovered this 1964 filmed interview in the archive about a month ago, and I feel very lucky to be able to put it out into the world today.
14 Sep 2021
We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Newport Jazz Festival & Newport Folk Festival founder George Wein yesterday at the age of 95. We searched our archives to share this interview with Wein from 1964 conducted by @wpri12 bit.ly/2XkUqPZ
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10 Sep 2021
It's going to be a beautiful evening for an outdoor screening! Join us at the ArchiveRemix.org Film Festival to see new short pieces created from the @rihistory film collections. Bring a chair picnic to the RIHS lawn at 110 Benevolent St, PVD | 6:30 entry/7pm show time!
22 Aug 2021
Check out our new project to put @RIHistory film collections into the hands of new storytellers. We gave Creators 300 minutes of archival footage - they're giving us back remixed short films. Local folks, join us for outdoor screenings! Non-local, they'll be up on YouTube later!
20 Aug 2021
Join us for the FREE Archive Remix Film Festival series September 10th-12th at 7 pm. Watch our film collections come to life through creative reinvention by local artists.🎥
See the link below for details and registration information!
sites.google.com/rihs.org/ar…
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19 Apr 2021
Fantastic piece from my friend @phileil about the US's obsession with "happiness." By the 3rd time my health insurance company sent me a text message pressuring me to sign up for their new app "Happify" in the middle of a pandemic I wanted to scream.
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19 Apr 2021
I'm really sad to have missed the @PawSox era in Rhode Island, but at least I get to track down old footage like this first ever game at McCoy Stadium in #Pawtucket on April 24, 1970.
18 Apr 2021
#OTD 40 years ago the longest game in professional baseball history began b/w the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings. 33 innings/8 hours and 25 min that spanned between 3 days.
For those feeling #PawSox nostalgia, here are clips from their first official game in McCoy
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15 Apr 2021
All over this in the kelly green! @ChrnclsOfMARMIA is my favorite archive to support!
13 Apr 2021
Great conference today from @digicomMA. This from Jaccavrie McNeely is really resonating: "It’s really cool that we have something that dates back to the 1600s, but the average patron should be able to come in and see something that relates to them." #dcconference21
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Becca Bender retweeted
12 Apr 2021
#OTD in 1965 Governor John Chafee signed the Rhode Island Fair Housing Practices Act. Recently digitized from our archive is this incredible footage (with sound) of that historic event which includes commentary from the famous civil rights activist Clifford Monteiro. #RIhistory
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25 Mar 2021
A highlight of my documentary career was when #peteseeger started playing his banjo and singing "John Henry" during an interview AFTER telling us he didn't want to sing on camera anymore-a magical moment. Here he is in 1967 in Newport. Wait for the wisdom on singing for children.
24 Mar 2021
Any Pete Seeger fans out there?! Check out this video we just uploaded to YouTube of him performing at the @Newportfolkfest in 1967, the Summer of Love 😎
youtu.be/Gd7aSCD-GyU
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17 Mar 2021
2 1/2 years into my time at @rihistory, and we finally had enough film digitized to cut a promo reel! Thank you so much to @RazCunningham and @LittleFireLF for putting together this beautiful sample of our moving image collections! youtu.be/GTzrxNEkK5k
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Becca Bender retweeted
10 Mar 2021
The RI COVID Archive team created an amazing one year retrospective of their work compacted nicely into this podcast episode. Definitely worth a listen! It's hard to believe it's been a year...
The archive is still accepting submissions!
ricovidarchive.org/
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11 Mar 2021
Getting the ricovidarchive.org up and running has been a large part of my job over the past year. We have over 1300 submissions so far and encourage everyone to please keep recording and sharing this history!
11 Mar 2021
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