EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

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Highlights | Mashapaug Maps | Oral Histories | Indigenous Culture | Water | Huntington Industrial Park | Gorham Site Clean-Up | Partners & Related Projects

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2017 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Urban Pond Procession and our place-based public arts projects connected to Mashapaug Pond and the Lower Pawtuxet River Watershed. Every year we select a focus for our workshops and events. For our tenth, we have chosen the four important themes or “Stories” covered during the past ten years. These are:

• the Environmental Story of Mashapaug Pond and polluted waters​
  • Mashapaug Pond is Sick
  • Drainage map of Huntington Industrial Park
  • Stormwater walk handout
• the Industrial Story of Gorham Silver Manufacturing Company and other industries as economic assets and polluters in Providence
  • ​From Silver Spoons to Shell Casings
  • Gorham images
  • Map of Gorham site remediation
  • Educational materials from the RISD Museum
• the Indigenous Story as it connects to Mashapaug Pond and Rhode Island waterbodies
  • ​Rhode Island Knows Now The Narragansett Still Exist
  • How the Birds
  • UPP Arts Storytelling Program
• the Socioeconomic Story of the 1962 displacement of the West Elmwood neighborhood, once located at the current site of the Huntington Industrial Park
  • ​Map of West Elmwood
    
  • Industrial Legacies: Environment and Economics
  • Where Did West Elmwood Go?
  • Historical maps
  • West Elmwood oral history
  • Mash

Additional reference material: Map of the Mashapaug Pond watershed