Providence Preservation Society's 68th Annual Meeting on Zoom

Описание: PPS's Annual Meeting was held via zoom on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. During the Annual Meeting we reported on the organization's activities in 2025, gave a preview of what is to come in 2026 and elected new board members. After conclusion of the business portion of the meeting, there was an opportunity to hear a presentation about the history of the Smith Hill neighborhood by cultural historian Keith Morton (read bio below) and more about PPS's 2026 Most Endangered Places List.

Speaker 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.