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COS Indigenous Peoples Day endorsement
Community Organized for Solidarity
The members of Community Organized for Solidarity support the petition addressed to Select Board Chair Roy Epstein to officially change the name from “Columbus Day” to “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” in the town of Belmont.
On Jan. 29, members of COS discussed the following reasons why we adamantly support this change:
• Celebrating Columbus Day contributes to the miseducation of the Belmont community because it ignores the genocide and enslavement of native peoples at the hands of white settlers like Christopher Columbus.
• Celebrating “Indigenous Peoples” encourages the Belmont community to understand and appreciate the cultures and contributions of Native Americans to the history of the U.S. and to our region of Massachusetts.
Rhode Island Rescues
Photograph by Gavin Ashworth. All photographs courtesy of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island.
The story of the Preservation Society begins with the mission to rescue Hunter House (Fig. 1) and the question put to financier George Henry Warren Jr. after its purchase by his wife, Katherine Warren: “Well, you’ve got this house, now what are you going to do with it?”
In 1945, Newport stone carver John Howard Benson became alarmed that Hunter House a rare surviving waterfront property with deep ties to Newport’s history might be irretrievably lost. The residence was no longer needed by the Rhode Island Catholic Diocese, which had used it for a convent, and its survival was in jeopardy. So concerned was Benson that he and John Perkins Brown, whose Georgian Society also wished to save Hunter House, decided to speak with the Warrens. Benson and Brown traveled to the couple’s winter residence in New York City to warn, “the grea