Smith Hill Walking Tour

Note: this program was moved from January 31 to March 14 due to weather conditions!

On Saturday, March 14, join us for a walking tour of Smith Hill's history with Providence Preservation Society's Annual Meeting keynote speaker Keith Morton at 1pm, weather permitting.

The walk will cover between 1 and 1.5 miles and will depart from and return to the Smith Hill Community Library. Stops will include Love Divine Cherubim and Seraphim Church on Candace Street, the Armenian Memorial, Douglas and Chalkstone Avenues, and St. Patrick’s Cemetery, among others. We will reschedule this walk if the weekend brings snow, ice, or temperatures below 25!

Please wear comfortable shoes and dress warmly as the entire walk will be outdoors!
Please note that the Library does not have a dedicated parking lot but there is plentiful street parking.

Walk Leader Bio

Keith Morton is Professor Emeritus of Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College where he also served as director of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service until his retirement in 2023. He was interim executive director of the Providence-based Nonviolence Institute from July 2023-August 2024. A cultural historian, he has worked in the areas of community development, community service and community theory for more than 30 years. His teaching and scholarship have focused on how we learn from experience, on service and nonviolence as practices of community building, and on the historic and present meanings of community and service in people’s lives. He is the author of Making Sense: Youth Gangs, Violence and a Practical Theory of Positive Change (2019) and Smith Hill: Stories of Community and Place (2026), to be published as a digital book with Providence College’s Phillip’s Library. He is currently working on a book about the social and natural histories of the farm he lives on with his family in Warren, RI.

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