Mark Gardner
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Public Historian |
| Introduction | My name is Mark Kenneth Gardner, and welcome to my blog, A History Garden. I am a graduate of URI (1988) and Rhode Island College (2012), with a Master of Arts in History -- my thesis: “As Publick As Possible: Democratic Localism and Political Economy in a Rhode Island Town Government, 1760-1820.” I teach US History and Rhode Island History at Chariho High School. I am past president of the RI Council for the Social Studies, former state coordinator for Rhode Island Model Legislature, and served on the historical educational advisory committees for the RI Dept. of Ed and the RI Historical Society. I have also been a trustee on the board of the South County History Center, chair of the Coventry (RI) Historic District Commission, and was Archivist and the current Historian at the Western Rhode Island Civic Historical Society. I am working on several public history projects, in particular “Lost Mill Towns of South County,” an ambitious study of Washington County RI that has been made into a series of related public history presentations, an adult-ed course, and currently I am writing a book about it |
| Interests | General: History, Archaeology, Civics, Politics, Science, Art & Architecture, Archives, Motorcycling, Farming, Gardening, Antique Tractors, Agricultural Fairs, 4-H, Chickens, Cats, Music Composition, and Writing... |