Underground Rhode Island Exhibits
Hall, Ingbretson, Wolfson, and Salkind worked on the original "Lost and Unknown" exhibit.
Photo by William Loggia.
There have been two, or (to be more precise) three exhibits emanating from the Underground Rhode Island project. The first was curated by Sara Agniel for the Aldrich House, Rhode Island Historical Society during May, 2004, consisting of materials gathered on early interview occasions. This exhibit was disassembled and reassembled by four Brown University students—Megan Hall, Krista Ingebretson, Micah Salkind and Julia Wolfson—as "Lost and Unknown: Stories from Rhode Island's Underground." In this version, it was exhibited from July 10 to September 6, at the Newport Art Museum and Art Association, for the very special summer celebrating a fifty year anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival. The exhibit moved on to the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University, for the Fall season, its final showing. It was succeeded by a second (or third) exhibit put together by a number of the current students in "Oral History: Theory and Methods," drawing upon new interviews. Cassie Tharinger, Nolan Shutler, John Butler, Monica M. Martinez and Micah Salkind were especially active in the assembling of the exhibit, which opened in February, 2005, at the John Nicholas Brown Center and closed there in April.
