The Providence Journal

$50,000 grant to support God's Little Acre preservation

NEWPORT — The Preservation Society of Newport County received a $50,000 grant from the National Trust of Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund to assist efforts to ...
Variety

God’s Little Acre

Rousing, rollicking and ribald, God's Little Acre is a rustic revel with the kick of a Georgia mule. The production of Erskine Caldwell's novel is adult, sensitive and intelligent. Rousing, rollicking ...
Architectural Digest

A Grant Helps to Restore the Largest Colonial-Era African Burial Ground in the U.S.

The United States's largest and most intact Colonial-era African burial ground is not in New York, Chicago, or any other urban metropolis. It's tucked into a corner of the Common Burying Ground in the ...
Washington Times

‘God’s little acre’

NEWPORT, R.I. - Dotting the landscape of the Common Burying Ground are the graves of those who helped build Colonial Newport: African slaves and their descendants.The 282 gravestones, most dating to ...
New York Magazine

God's Little Acre

Erskine Caldwell's steamy novel God's Little Acre was given a film adaptation in 1958. A heavily grayed-up Robert Ryan plays Ty Ty Walden, the patriarch of a slovenly backwoods family. As Ty Ty digs ...