Walking Tour of Newport
October 27, 2008 Class News
Our tour began at the Redwood Library.
Next, we visited the Touro Synagogue.
Ms. Holland shares her knowledge of Newport harbor history.
After, we take a tour of the Newport history museum.
Our last stop is the Old Stone Mill.
Our tour began at the Redwood Library.
Next, we visited the Touro Synagogue.
Ms. Holland shares her knowledge of Newport harbor history.
After, we take a tour of the Newport history museum.
Our last stop is the Old Stone Mill.
What did we learn?
I learned that the Redwood Library is the oldest library in the United States.
- Grace
I learned that people used to stand in the back to speak in the Touro Synagogue.
- Becca
I learned that the place across from church is called “The Old Stone Mill.”
- Shannon
I learned that there were speed limits even with horse carriages. And that in the 1600’s and 1700’s the covers of kids books weren’t that colorful.
-Maia
The Redwood Library has books that are ancient. They are thousands of years old.
-Ainsley
The synagogue that we saw was the oldest synagogue in the U.S.
-Aspen
You can find a fore-edge book in a vault and if you bend it forward you will see a picture. If you bend it in reverse, it will be two pictures.
-Connor
I learned that there are bookworms that eat books!
Jason
I learned that the Redwood Library has books from the 1600’s.
- Hope
I learned that Jewish people wear different hats to show respect in the synagogue.
- Yuri
I learned more facts about R.I., more than I knew before. I thought it was interesting learning about what was inside the buildings. I learned that someone got books from London and brought them here to the Redwood Library.
- Karla
A thing that I learned was that a synagogue is a Jewish church. At the Redwood Library there is a such a thing as a bookworm.
- MaryJane
I learned that Peter Harrison made the Redwood Library.
- Morgan
I learned that the Redwood Library is the oldest library in the U.S.A.
- Hannah
I learned that back, back, back then, the Redwood Library only had 751 books.
- Brianna
I learned that all people are allowed to go into a synagogue and not just Jewish people.
- Marianne
I learned that books that have gold sides could have secret pictures on the opposite side of the spine.
-Camden
I learned that a bookworm ate all the way through a child’s book.
- Michael
Jane Stuart had a famous dad for a painter and she copied his paintings and her painting is in the Redwood Library.
- Kerrin
