
Hanna Rashidi, Intern & Guest Blogger
- May 4
- 2 min
Taste of Providence: The Community Connections of Food
Through the dive into dining culture at Lippitt House Museum in the #TasteofProvidence series, it becomes clear that the customs and...
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Hanna Rashidi, Intern & Guest Blogger
- Apr 20
- 2 min
A Taste of Providence: The Rise of Chocolate
The dining room of Lippitt House Museum is home to an array of art pieces, though none are quite as intriguing as The Chocolate Girl....
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Hanna Rashidi, Intern & Guest Blogger
- Apr 13
- 2 min
A Taste of Providence: World War I Recipe Test
Surrounded by the grandeur of Lippitt House’s dining room, it is easy to lose sight of some of the harsh realities of history. However,...
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Hanna Rashidi, Intern & Guest Blogger
- Apr 6
- 2 min
A Taste of Providence: World War I & Self-Rationing
During WWI, May Lippitt Steedman, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann, worked with the Providence Red Cross heading the knitting and garment...
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Hanna Rashidi, Intern & Guest Blogger
- Mar 30
- 2 min
A Taste of Providence: Introduction
Museum intern and guest blogger, introduces her series, "A Taste of Providence."
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Cathy Saunders, Curator of Education
- Mar 22
- 2 min
A Taste of Providence and Beyond
If you visited Lippitt House Museum in the summer of 2017, you would have experienced the special exhibition, “The Art of Dining: A Taste...
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Carrie Taylor, Museum Director
- Feb 26, 2021
- 2 min
Patent Medicines and the False Hopes of Miracle Cures
In the late 19th century with the growth of manufacturing capacity to meet demands from the growing consumer market, there was an...
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Jenny Schweich, Volunteer Docent
- Nov 18, 2020
- 2 min
The Odyssey of Making Miss Goddard’s “Soft Molasses Gingerbread”
What better way to honor the 100th anniversary of “The Vote” than to prepare a recipe from The Woman Suffrage Cook Book? Published in...
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Cathy Saunders, Curator of Education
- Oct 29, 2020
- 2 min
Polls, Pandemic, and Service
One of the things that drew me to work at Lippitt House Museum was its commitment to the family’s legacy of civic engagement. In an...
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Arianna Zakrzewski, Intern
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Creating a Disaster and Emergency Response Plan for Lippitt House Museum
Intern Arianna Zakrzewski shares details about her internship project.
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Arianna Zakrzewski, Intern
- Jul 22, 2020
- 2 min
Interning in a Pandemic
Arianna Zakrzewski, a student at Johns Hopkins University's AAP Museum Studies Master's program, describes what it is like to be an
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Clare Woolsey, Intern
- Aug 13, 2019
- 1 min
Interning at the Lippitt House
During the summer of 2019, I worked as an intern in the archives at the Lippitt House. I quite enjoyed the experience; through reading...
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Carla Nunez, Intern
- Aug 23, 2018
- 1 min
My Internship Experience
Through the Studio Institute program, I had the pleasure of interning at the Lippitt House Museum as their collection and research...
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Carla Nunez, Intern
- Jul 19, 2018
- 3 min
Providence Artist Sydney Richmond Burleigh and the Lippitt Family
Through my research of the Lippitt family’s art collection for my summer internship, I learned the Lippitt family acquired works by New...
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Carrie Taylor, Museum Director
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min
(Fund) Raising the Roof!
Since 2012 Lippitt House Museum knew we needed to implement a plan (and raise the necessary funds) to replace the failing asphalt shingle...
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Samantha Hunter, Curator of Education
- Nov 30, 2017
- 2 min
A Fun Find and Lippitt House's Newest Additions: Just in time for Christmas!
To me, one of the many exciting things about working in a house museum is that you never know what kind of treasures you might find....
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Jenna D’Alessandro, Intern
- Oct 26, 2017
- 1 min
An Internship Focused on Photography and Art
Jenna D'Alessandro's perspective on her high school internship at Lippitt House.
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Carrie Taylor, Museum Director
- Jun 14, 2017
- 4 min
The Great Mocha Cream Battle
For the 2017 visitation season, Lippitt House Museum organized The Art of Dining: A Taste of Providence's Golden Age. The exhibition is...
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Jackie Delamatre, Curator of Education
- Jun 8, 2017
- 4 min
Mapping a New Vision for Docent Tours
Lippitt House is pretty much as new as museums get. It opened its doors as a museum in 1993 and only hired its first director in 2013....
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Jackie Delamatre, Curator of Education
- Jun 7, 2017
- 1 min
Silver and Spindles: The Lippitt House Museum Blog
Learn more about Lippitt House Museum through the Silver and Spindles Blog!
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