Junior Docent Program
The PHS Junior Docent Program continues since its coneption in 2001 by Katherine Long. Docents actively particpate in events and programs of the Society and learn the basic history of the Washington County Jail and PHS exhibits. Junior docents are local students in the 8th to 12th grades, have an interest in history, acting, public speaking, and teaching about the museum exhibits.
The Society's Junior Docents are teachers of the museum's various exhibits and 18th through 20th Century artifacts from
"Haunted Jail" October 29, 2009
A favorite production of our Junior Docent troupe occurs each
October, the Hallowe'en Haunted Jail.
Follow this link for a 9-minute film featuring segments of our 2009 tour:
'The Man Without a Country' by Edward Everett Hale
A dramatization of Hale's famous book was performed by the Pettaquamscutt Historical Society Junior Docents.
The play 'The Man Without a Country' dramatizing Edward Everett Hale's description of an unfortunate U.S. Army officer who, in a trial for treason, denounced his allegiance to his country. As part of his court martial sentence he was sent to live aboard U.S. Navy vessels for the rest of his life under orders to never hear or see anything connected to the nation. The play's eleven scenes directed by URI Theater students Ben Rose and Preston Lawhorne take us from the the author's study in Boston, through the court marshal, over fifty years at sea, and his death in 1863. Presented by the fourteen teenage Junior Docents of the Pettaquamscutt Historic Society, the play entertained as well as taught a lesson in patriotism through the words of one of America's outstanding authors.
Junior Docents presented an adaptation of their March 2006 performance of
" Blood on my hands, Ink on My Page" from the Civil War letters and diaries
of John K Hull, Union Soldier from South Kingstown.
L to R are Elena G., Jeremy L., Lydia T., Emmett S., Clea B., and Joseph M.
