The Hale Family in Matunuck, lecture & slideshowA community event at the Wickford Art Association

Wickford Art Association Community Event

Free & Open to the public

Tuesday, March 11th 7pm

Joan Youngken will give a lecture and

slideshow about some of Rhode

Islands historical artists in the Hale

family.

36 Beach Street, North Kingstown, RI

401-294-6849 www.wickfordart.org

Boston clergyman and author Edward Everett Hale and his family spent summers in Matunuck from 1873 until 1910. In that time,Ellen Day Hale and Philip Leslie Hale gained prominence as American Impressionist artists, Edward Everett Hale Jr. became a writer and professor of literature,Herbert became a successful architect, and Robert Beverly Hale became a writer and poet. Joan Youngken came to know the Hale family through years of research and serving as consultant on the restoration, furnishing, and interpretation of the Hale summer house, now a property of the Pettaquamscutt Historical Society. Joan will share her extensive knowledge of this creative family in a slideshow and lecture.