Slatersville: Capturing a 250 Year Story Through the Lens of Time with Filmmaker Christian de Rezendes:
Tue, Jan 20
|The Jenks Center
First Two Presentations: January 20th --- 11:00 am - 12:30pm January 27th ---- 11:00 am - 12:30pm
Time & Location
Jan 20, 2026, 11:00 AM EST
The Jenks Center, 109 Skillings Rd, Winchester, MA 01890, USA
About the Event
Slatersville: Capturing a 250 Year Story Through the Lens of Time with Filmmaker Christian de Rezendes: This historical docuseries covers the origin of the Rhode Island textile industry. Over the course of the episodes, Christian de Rezendes will take the audience on an enriching journey from its early days to the fight to preserve its structure in the 21st Century. In January he will present:
The Mental Smugglers (Episode 1), Tuesday, January 20, 11:00 am will begin in Belper, England, the birthplace of Samuel Slater, who is known as the “Father of the Industrial Revolution” in America but a traitor to his native land.
Controlling No Man’s Land (Episode 2), Tuesday, January 27, 11:00 am will focus on how Samuel Slater and his brother find the land and create and control their own village and build a whole new mill.
Sponsored by the ENKA Grant.