Name: More Than A Number — The Indigent Cemetery | Project Spotlight
Start: 2025-12-04T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-04T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Rhode Island State Archives

$More Than A Number \u2014 The Indigent Cemetery | Project Spotlight$

1,049 number-marked graves behind the Rhode Island Training School had been forgotten. See how students remembered them.
About this Event

More than historical research, the Indigent Cemetery Project reflects on identity, belonging, and remembering. Join us as we spotlight the efforts by T-Time Productions and many volunteers, with support from the Rhode Island State Archives, in restoring and telling the stories buried in the indigent cemetery behind the Rhode Island Training School. The Rhode Island State Archives exhibit, "A Good for the Public: Public Social Welfare in Rhode Island," continues to tell many of these stories about State Institutions.

Secretary of State Gregg M. Amore, Theresa Moore, Founder of T-Time Productions and John Hill, Chair of the Cranston Historical Cemetery Commission, will highlight how the Rhode Island State Archives helped uncover and digitize historic records related to those buried in the cemetery. We’ll also explore how this project inspired new educational curriculum at the Rhode Island Training School and engaged volunteers in restoring the cemetery grounds behind the school.

All are welcome. We invite volunteers, teachers, local historians, reporters and cemetery commission members and anyone interested to join in celebrating the completion of this project.