Heritage Corridor announces upcoming activities
PAWTUCKET – The Blackstone Valley National Heritage Corridor announces the following upcoming events:
• Blackstone Gorge Hike: Saturday, June 2, 10 a.m. to noon, Blackstone Gorge, end of County Street, Blackstone.
Celebrate National Trails Day by joining Blackstone Heritage Corridor Trail Ambassador Tom Bik as he guides you along the beautiful and scenic trails at the Blackstone Gorge that follow along the Blackstone River. Tom will share local history and show you how to be in Massachusetts and Rhode Island at the same time.
Presented in partnership with Metacomet Land Trust. If raining at time of hike, the event will be canceled.
• National Trails Day Book Launch: Easy Walks and Paddles in the Ten Mile River Watershed: Saturday, June 2, 1 to 3 p.m., Hunts Mills, 65 Hunts Mills Road, Rumford.
The Ten Mile River Watershed Council is celebrating the launch of its new guidebook to outdoor places, Easy Walks and Paddles in the Ten Mile River Watershed.
Enjoy light refreshments and a guided walk alongside the Ten Mile River at Hunts Mills. Books will be available for sale at this event. All proceeds benefit the Ten Mile River Watershed Council.
Looking for places to walk with your family and/or friends, or with your dog? Hoping to spend time in the outdoors on a trail that is ADA accessible? Or maybe you have a canoe or kayak but don’t know how to find safe canoe launches. You’ll find information to satisfy all these needs, and more, with maps to each trail head, inside this book. The river travels through Plainville, North Attleboro, Attleboro, Seekonk, Pawtucket and East Providence, before reaching the Seekonk River, at Omega Falls.
Members of the Ten Mile River Watershed Council worked together with Marjorie Turner Hollman, author of two other books in the “Easy Walks” book series (and a volunteer at Blackstone Heritage Corridor), to create this guide to outdoor spaces in the towns that host “their” river. The group offers regular river cleanup efforts, as well as group walks, open to the public. The Ten Mile River Watershed covers 54 square miles of Northeastern Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. Its headwaters are in Plainville, with two major tributaries, the Bungay and the Seven Mile rivers. Forty-five lakes and ponds are in the watershed and many towns once used the river as a source power for mills and as drinking water. For more information about the watershed council, please visit http://www.tenmileriver.net/ or email info@tenmileriver.net
To order a copy of the book, please visit https://www.amazon.com/ Easy-Walks-Paddles-River-Watershed/ dp/1985377012/
Discover Historic Providence!:
Sunday, June 3, 8 a.m. to noon. Meet at the small city park at the Intersection of Bridge and Tockwotten Streets, Providence.
Join Blackstone Heritage Corridor Trail Ambassador Ernie Germani to explore Historic Providence. Nearly 400 years of history, art, architecture, and culture will be explored on this fiveand-a- half-mile walk. It will lead you along the Providence Waterfront, up College Hill, along Waterplace Park, and will follow parts of the Independence Trail, Lovecraft’s Walking Tour, and the IVV/Ava Historic College 5k route. This walk will wind in and out of quaint historic residential neighborhoods, by some of the country’s oldest churches, through city parks, by government buildings, between the towers of glass and steel, and along the rivers that converge in the city, all for a unique perspective of Providence.