Early Theatres in Rhode Island

In the decade before the Revolutionary War, the city of Newport was one of the major centers of Colonial culture, ranking with New York and Philadelphia, and far ahead of the village of Boston. It was the only settlement in New England thought cosmopolitan enough by David Douglass to support the introduction of a professional theatre troupe. The Douglass-Hallam company had performed successfully in the southern and middle-Atlantic colonies, and the manager apparently was determined to attempt his luck further north in order to supplement the rather thin living the company managed to make from giving performances in America. Boston, with its sectarian rigidity, was clearly out of the question. Newport, on the other hand, with its wealthy and travelled shipping interests, seemed distinctly possible as a base for what was hoped to be a larger sphere of performance. Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (“Rhode Island” in Colonial times meant only the Island of Rhode Island, not the entire area we now know as the State) had no law against theatrical performances, principally because none had ever been given in the Colony to object to. The Douglass-Hallam company moved north in 1761 and began what was to be a series of attempts to penetrate the resistance of New Englanders to frivolities and delights.

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Assessing the Multiple Impacts of Extreme Hurricanes in Southern New England, USA

Geosciences ◽

10.3390/geosciences9060265 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (6) ◽

pp. 265 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

David S. Ullman ◽

Isaac Ginis ◽

Wenrui Huang ◽

Catherine Nowakowski ◽

Xuanyu Chen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

New England ◽

Storm Surge ◽

Rhode Island ◽

The United States ◽

Narragansett Bay ◽

Power Outage ◽

River Inflow ◽

Southern New England ◽

Major Hurricane ◽

The City

The southern New England coast of the United States is particularly vulnerable to land-falling hurricanes because of its east-west orientation. The impact of two major hurricanes on the city of Providence (Rhode Island, USA) during the middle decades of the 20th century spurred the construction of the Fox Point Hurricane Barrier (FPHB) to protect the city from storm surge flooding. Although the Rhode Island/Narragansett Bay area has not experienced a major hurricane for several decades, increased coastal development along with potentially increased hurricane activity associated with climate change motivates an assessment of the impacts of a major hurricane on the region. The ocean/estuary response to an extreme hurricane is simulated using a high-resolution implementation of the ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) model coupled to the Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS). The storm surge response in ADCIRC is first verified with a simulation of a historical hurricane that made landfall in southern New England. The storm surge and the hydrological models are then forced with winds and rainfall from a hypothetical hurricane dubbed “Rhody”, which has many of the characteristics of historical storms that have impacted the region. Rhody makes landfall just west of Narragansett Bay, and after passing north of the Bay, executes a loop to the east and the south before making a second landfall. Results are presented for three versions of Rhody, varying in the maximum wind speed at landfall. The storm surge resulting from the strongest Rhody version (weak Saffir–Simpson category five) during the first landfall exceeds 7 m in height in Providence at the north end of the Bay. This exceeds the height of the FPHB, resulting in flooding in Providence. A simulation including river inflow computed from the runoff model indicates that if the Barrier remains closed and its pumps fail (for example, because of a power outage or equipment failure), severe flooding occurs north of the FPHB due to impoundment of the river inflow. These results show that northern Narragansett Bay could be particularly vulnerable to both storm surge and rainfall-driven flooding, especially if the FPHB suffers a power outage. They also demonstrate that, for wind-driven storm surge alone under present sea level conditions, the FPHB will protect Providence for hurricanes less intense than category five.

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Genetic barcoding resolves the historically known red alga Champia parvula from southern New England, USA, as C. farlowii sp. nov. (Champiaceae, Rhodymeniales)

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.8 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 302 (1) ◽

pp. 77 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

MAURA K. GRIFFITH ◽

CRAIG W. SCHNEIDER ◽

DANIEL I. WOLF ◽

GARY W. SAUNDERS ◽

CHRISTOPHER E. LANE

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New Species ◽

New England ◽

Rhode Island ◽

Algal Species ◽

Mitochondrial Coi ◽

Southern New England ◽

Red Algal ◽

Genetic Barcoding ◽

A New Species

Using mitochondrial COI-5P and plastid rbcL genetic markers, the red algal species historically known in southern New England, USA, as Champia parvula is found to be genetically distinct from the species to which it has historically been aligned. This necessitates the description of a new species, C. farlowii, for plants from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, USA. The new species is morphologically compared with true European C. parvula and congeners, especially those with similar features previously aligned under the same species name. Champia farlowii is a morphologically cryptic species, the sixth in the expanding C. parvula complex, with overlapping characteristic measurements despite differences at the range extremes, when compared to C. parvula.

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We Believe

10.5406/illinois/9780252037610.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Amy Bass

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New England ◽

Rhode Island ◽

New Hampshire ◽

World Series ◽

The Creation ◽

Definition Of ◽

Fenway Park ◽

Boston Red Sox

This chapter examines the diasporic quality of Red Sox Nation and the effects of winning two World Series on its (formerly “angst-ridden”) citizenry. For Boston Red Sox fans, the definition of home has always been blurry. Red Sox fans have always been part of a diasporic New England community more imagined than real, but maintaining a strong identity. Even in its most parochial eras, the Red Sox have reached far beyond Fenway Park, rendering “Boston” as home for people in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, parts of Connecticut, and the rest of Massachusetts. In the 2004 championship season, the Red Sox surpassed the New York Yankees as Major League Baseball's most profitable road attraction. This chapter considers how the creation of Red Sox Nation turned the team into a national phenomenon, “enjoying a community that is rooted to whatever space it occupies at any given moment.”

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The Radical Pietism of Count Nicholas Zinzendorf as a Conservative Influence on the Awakener, Gilbert Tennent

Church History ◽

10.2307/3164638 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 35-46

Author(s):

Milton J Coalter

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

New Jersey ◽

New England ◽

Immigrant Population ◽

The South ◽

Delaware River ◽

Northern European ◽

The City

Unlike the religious dominance of Puritans in New England and Anglicans in the South, the mid-Atlantic colonies of eighteenth-century America were covered with an assortment of northern European churches and sects. By the 1740s, an overflow of New England Puritans shared New York with an earlier immigrant population of Reformed Dutch and French Huguenots. In the Raritan valley of New Jersey, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians lived alongside enclaves of more Dutch, and coexisted with English Quakers, Swedish and German Lutherans, and a variety of sectarians along the lower Delaware River and in the city of Philadelphia. On the upper Delaware were further German settlements while along the western frontiers of Penn's colony additional Scotch-Irish Calvinists were to be found.

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Supreme Court To Chicago On Gun Control: Go To Heller!

Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER) ◽

10.19030/jber.v8i11.47 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

Author(s):

Patrick J. Reville

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Supreme Court ◽

Common Ground ◽

San Antonio ◽

United States Supreme Court ◽

The United States ◽

Gun Control ◽

The Alamo ◽

The Village ◽

The City

Gun Control.  For or against, you are going to have a fight on your hands.  But where is this fight to take place?  Is it going to be on the village greens of Lexington and Concord?  On the fields of Gettysburg? The dirt streets of Tombstone, leading on down to the O.K. Corral?  Maybe at the base of the walls of the Alamo, down in San Antonio.  Possibly on the campus of Kent State, or even at the now reserved setting of a school board meeting in Columbine.  There are some mean streets in Ourtown, U.S.A.  From New York City, to Washington D.C., and on to Chicago, where historic mob gun battles took place in the Capone Prohibition days, guns continue to blaze away.  But what to do about it?  Should we outlaw guns altogether?  Or, as the saying goes, if we outlaw guns, will only outlaws have guns?  Do we listen to Michael Moore, or the N.R.A.?  Where can we find some common ground, and, maybe some answers?  The United States Supreme Court has already heard oral arguments on the City Of Chicago’s ban on handguns, and its decision is imminent.  What will be the outcome, and where will the Court go to seek a majority, if not a consensus?  The answer may be a not so long look back, to the Court’s decision in District Of Columbia v. Heller (1), decided in June of 2008.

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Nueva York, 1783-1811: el nacimiento de una metrópolis

MDCCC 1800 ◽

10.30687/mdccc/2280-8841/2020/01/007 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ana Del Cid

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Revolutionary War ◽

Planning Model ◽

The City

This essay reviews and connects different events, urban constructions and historical cartographies concerning New York in the chronological framework defined by 1783, the year of the signing of the Treaty of Paris – ending the American Revolutionary War –, and 1811, when the Commissioners’ Plan established the urban planning model to make the city a metropolis on a par with the great European capitals. During this brief but intense period – not as studied as it is sometimes thought – the material and immaterial (the physical and identity) foundations of the current New York were laid. This work focuses on the active and important contribution that two disciplines, architecture and cartography, made to the mentioned process.

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Royall Tyler

10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0019 ◽

2022 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New England ◽

Rhode Island ◽

Military Service ◽

John Adams ◽

Harvard College ◽

Royall Tyler ◽

Bachelor Of Arts ◽

May Day ◽

Comic Drama

Royall Tyler (b. 1757–d. 1826) was born to a prominent merchant family in Boston and came of age in the decades leading up to the American Revolution. He entered Harvard College in 1771 and earned his bachelor of arts degree three months after the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Tyler then enlisted in the Revolutionary Army, although he remained in Boston and Cambridge studying law. His active military service seems to have been limited to serving as a brigade major during the unsuccessful 1778 attempt to capture Newport, Rhode Island. As the war continued, Tyler earned his master of arts degree from Harvard in 1779 and engaged in a failed courtship of Abigail Adams, the daughter of future president John Adams. After the war, Tyler became involved in the suppression of Shays’ Rebellion in 1786. When Daniel Shays fled to Vermont, Tyler was assigned to negotiate with authorities in New York, which still laid claim to the territory, to ensure that the rebel did not find safe harbor. In New York City Tyler launched his literary career; in April 1787, The Contrast began its run in New York as the first professionally produced American comic drama and one of the first successful American plays. Months later Tyler produced a second play, May Day in Town, that is no longer extant. In 1790, Tyler returned to Boston and married Mary Palmer, who would later publish the first American manual for infant care. They relocated to Vermont, where the couple remained for the rest of their lives. In the years to follow, Tyler published numerous poems and essays, including a popular series of essays in collaboration with Joseph Dennie under the title of “Colon & Spondee.” In 1797, Tyler published the novel The Algerine Captive, which achieved moderate success and was one of the first American books to be republished in Great Britain. In the 1800s and 1810s Tyler served for six years as the chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and launched a failed bid for the U.S. Senate. He completed several new plays, including his biblical dramas and the epistolary satire The Yankey in London (1809). At the time of his death in 1826 he was rewriting the first half of The Algerine Captive as a New England picaresque titled The Bay Boy, which would remain unpublished until 1968.

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Obituary notices of fellows deceased

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Containing Papers of a Biological Character ◽

10.1098/rspb.1924.0036 ◽

1924 ◽

Vol 96 (679) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

North Carolina ◽

South Carolina ◽

New England ◽

Rhode Island ◽

Second Child ◽

War Of Independence ◽

The Earth ◽

First Child ◽

The City

Isaac Bayley Balfour, third child and second son of Prof. John Hutton Balfour and his wife, Marion Spottiswood Bayley, born in 27, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, on March 31, 1853, was descended from families well known in his native city. John Balfour, mariner and merchant, burgess of Edinburgh and owner of estates in America, married in 1696 a daughter of William Arroll, merchant in Stirling, and obtained sasine of the Midlothian property of Braidwood at Temple, near Gorebridge, in 1710. John, first child of John Balfour and Isobel Arroll, born in 1697 and still living in 1710, predeceased his father ; Sarah, second child, born in 1698, was married in 1720 to William Hutton, merchant in Edinburgh and treasurer of the city; Andrew, third child and younger son, born in 1700, succeeded his father in 1731 and was still owner of Braidwood in 1774. Andrew Balfour, first child of Andrew Balfour of Braidwood, and his wife, Margaret Robertson, born in 1737, became a merchant in Edinburgh; John, their fifth child and second surviving son, born in 1749, settled when a young man in Charlestown, South Carolina. Four years later his brother Andrew, abandoning business in Edinburgh, also emigrated to America. Arriving in New England in 1772, he settled in Rhode Island, and espoused the cause of the colonies, taking part during 1775-77 in the War of Independence against England. Now styled Col. Balfour, he visited his brother in Charles town. John, however, was a loyalist, and the brothers soon separated ; Andrew in 1778 became a farmer in North Carolina. When John Balfour died in South Carolina on November 15, 1781, his house was destroyed by irregulars who claimed to be republicans. Four months later—March 10, 1782—Col. Andrew Balfour was assassinated in North Carolina by irregulars who professed to be loyalists. The widow of Andrew Balfour brought up her two children as American citizens ; the widow of John took her three children to Edinburgh, where one of those to advise her as regards their education was her late husband’s cousin, Dr. James Hutton (1726-97), son of William Hutton and Sarah Balfour, best remembered now as the author of the Huttonian ‘ Theory of the Earth.’

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DEVELOPMENTANDESTABLISHMENTTHEARCHITECTURE OF THE HELLENIC THEATER FROM FOIKDANCE TO THEATER BUILDINGS, VII-II beforec.b.

Problems of theory and history of architecture of Ukraine ◽

10.31650/2519-4208-2020-20-140-148 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 140-148

Author(s):

A. B. Vasilenko ◽

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N. V. Polshchikova ◽

O. I. Marceniuk ◽

А. V. Namchuk ◽

...

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

The Earth ◽

Mediterranean World ◽

Theatrical Performances ◽

Ancient Times ◽

The Right ◽

The Masses ◽

Mass Entertainment ◽

The Village ◽

The City

The tradition of the holidayswhich dedicatedtotheendof the grape harvest, was born in Hellada in ancient times, in the countryside and gradually moved to the cities. This process began in the VIII century BC. Holidays were dedicated to God Dionysus, he was responsible about the natural forces of the earth and vegetation, the mastery of viticulture and winemaking. The holiday started to name Dionysuy. One of the most important action –dance around a circle. Then it becamenational, it conducted in cities, where was taken the new forms. Actors or other free citizens of the city performed on the level of the round plan as a symbol (similar to the village dance in a circle) citywide holiday, the audience were also residents of the city, seats for which came down to the playground of actors in the form of a semicircular funnel. Initially, such places were arranged on artificial sub-constructions of wood. Such structures were prefabricated and were used many times. There have been cases of their collapse. Only after being in Athens to the second part of VI century BC such structures collapsed during the performance, it was decided more of this type of sub-exercise not to be used. From the end of the VI century BC, places for spectators were cut downin the natural hills. And the theaters themselves turned into stationary facilities, which contributed to many spectacular innovations and conveniences of actors -all this increased the visual efficiency of performances. From a simple place of national celebration gradually theaters turned into city-wide centers of state-political information (where the words of the actors conveyed to the audience the general provisions of state policy). For example, in the time of Pericles (444-429 BC), the poor free citizens of Athens were given theatrical money from the state treasury, which they had the right to spend solely on watching theatrical productions. Taking into account the fact that the theaters gathered several thousand spectators at the same time, the performances contributed to the dissemination of state information at a time for a large number of residents of the city. The Theatre of Deonis in Athens under the acropolis of the Acropolis accommodated 17,000 spectators from the total number of citizens in the heyday of 100,000. In addition, it was noticed that certain performances contribute to the optimistic mood of the ISSN 2519–4208. ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТЕОРИИ И ИСТОРИИ АРХИТЕКТУРЫ УКРАИНЫ.2020. No 20142audience, and this has a beneficial effect on their health. Therefore, it is no coincidence that theatrical productions (late classics of Hellas) were provided among the medical and recreational procedures in the “Asclepius” treatment and health procedures at VI C. in B.C.). The “Asclepius” architectural ensemble has a theatre as part of a medical and recreational center.Theatrical actions carried to the masses the state lines of ideology and politics, increased the general culture of the population while influencing the audience as wellness procedures. Theatrical performances were more effective than temple services. This is the need for the construction of theaters throughout Hellenism, where there was no city within Hellenistic borders, where there would be no theater. By the end of the III century BC, when the entire East Mediterranean world was subordinated to the Roman Republic, the type of theatrical construction of Hellas was completely formed. This was accepted by the Romans for their theatrical productions, gradually adapting it to the features of their mass-entertainment culture.

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Fault plane solutions for northeastern United States earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America ◽

10.1785/bssa0710061875 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 71 (6) ◽

pp. 1875-1882

Author(s):

Jay J. Pulli ◽

M. Nafi Toksöz

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

New England ◽

Fault Plane ◽

Local Stress ◽

P Wave ◽

Northeastern United States ◽

Stress Concentrations ◽

Fault Plane Solutions ◽

Entire Area

Abstract Fault plane solutions for eight earthquakes occurring in the northeastern United States have been determined using P-wave first motions and a computer algorithm for picking all valid solutions. The predominant mechanism in the area is thrust faulting, however the direction of the P axis is not consistent throughout the entire area. In central New England (Maine-New Hampshire), the P axis trends nearly E-W. In southeastern New England, the P axis trends N-S to NE-SW. In the Adirondacks region of New York, the P axis trends NE-SW as previously reported by Yang and Aggarwal (1981). Although the stress distribution appears to be complicated, as in the Central United States (Street et al., 1974), an underlying E-W compressive stress may exist in the New England area. These small earthquakes may represent the response to local stress concentrations.

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