Smith-Appleby House Hosts Tavern Night

Aug 18, 2012
6:00 pm until 10:00 pm

The Smith-Appleby House Museum will re-create the experience of a colonial tavern for modern day New Englanders.

Visitors are invited to grab a pint or two from the tavern’s serving wenches, feast on hearty colonial fare and listen to period tavern music. They’ll also be treated to a lamplight tour — and hear tales about  the historic colonial farmhouse — escorted by eighteenth century farmers, merchants and militiamen as portrayed by museum volunteers.

Smith-Appleby Tavern Night is open to adults only. No reservations are needed.

The Smith-Appleby House was originally built circa 1696 as a one-room stone-ender with a loft by Elisha Smith, the grandson of John Smith “The Miller,” one of Roger Williams’s original party of six men who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony to settle in Providence. Expanded by later generations of the family to twelve rooms, today the House is one of a few remaining seventeenth century houses in Rhode Island and features original furnishings, designs and exhibits.

The House is headquarters to the Historical Society of Smithfield.

Smith-Appleby House Museum
220 Stillwater Rd.
Smithfield, RI
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For more information:

Smith-Appleby House Museum

Telephone: 401-231-7363
Contact name: Maggie
Contact email: contact@smithapplebyhouse.org
Website: http://smithapplebyhouse.org/ai1ec_event/smith-appleby-by-candlelight