Hello and Happy Thanksgiving! Welcome to the Belongings Blog’s next installment of the From the Archives series, in which our Archivist Anthony Belz shares some of the more interesting materials found in the Tomaquag Museum archival collections. This fifth installment is lengthy and focuses on the Dovecrest Restaurant which was located in Exeter, Rhode Island adjacent to where the Tomaquag Museum is today. The Dovecrest Restaurant was an award winning and well renowned Indigenous cultural and culinary fixture in southern Rhode Island from 1963 until its closure in 1984.
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