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The Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame today announced the selection of nine prominent Rhode Islanders for membership in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. According to Board president and 1995 inductee, Dr. Patrick T. Conley–the Hall of Fame, consisting of illustrious Rhode Islanders from Roger Williams and the

Madam Eliza Jumel (nee Elizabeth Bowen) a Providence native, has been posthumously inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame as part of the 20-women inductee class chosen in observance of the centennial of the Nineteenth (Women’s Rights) Amendment. Sixteen ladies have been previously inducted for their various achievements in the 19th or 20th

On Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 2:00 PM the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame will conduct its 25th historical induction convocation in its Lecture Hall (Unit 101 – 1445 Wampanoag Trail, East Providence). The public is invited to attend. In past years these convocations have followed a chronological pattern by posthumously inducting those eminent

As part of the centennial observation of the ratification of the 19th Amendment (1920 – 2020) giving American women the right to vote, the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame announced it will be inducting six women suffragists into the Hall. These inductees include two Swedish immigrants, Maria Kindberg and Ingeborg Kindstedt; two women of

The Board of Directors of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame today announced the selection of nine prominent Rhode Islanders for membership in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. According to Board president and 1995 inductee, Dr. Patrick T. Conley–the Hall of Fame, consisting of illustrious Rhode Islanders from Roger Williams and the