A new chapter for an old house in Newport begins on Juneteenth
A cowry shell, a peach pit, and a human tooth. Beads, wooden buttons, nails, glass shards, and broken ceramics. These are items wrapped in blue and white checkered cloth found 21 years ago underneath floorboards in the attic of Newport’s oldest surviving house. Built in 1697 for a merchant and founding member of Newport’s Seventh […]
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