Weddings, memorials, private art weekends, and the occasional retrospective. The inn has been hosting this harbor's occasions for sixty years, and we have recently rebuilt how they are planned.
Presented by Edgar Finch, Archivist
For four decades, Richard Warren walked the same eleven blocks of waterfront and photographed them every morning before the light had decided what it was doing. The result is an archive of a working harbor: the piers, the fish houses, the men who unloaded them, and the buildings that arrived when the fishing left.
Mr. Finch will present the archive in five parts, with live annotation from the original field notebooks. The evening concludes with a reception on the Long Porch and a short reading by the innkeeper.
*Plate 166 is not on display at the request of the family.
Admission is free to inn guests and to members of the Widow's Bay Historical Society. Seating in the Chart Room is limited to forty; the overflow will be seated on the porch, where the presentation will be streamed as well.
Graham Pritchard's collectors take the building for three days at a time. The rooms are quiet, the lighting is considered, and the schedule is entirely their own.
The inn has become the natural home for the family occasions of the people who believed in it first. Ceremonies from twenty to sixty, with the Chart Room for the vows and the Long Porch for everything after.
The quieter half of what we do, and the half we take most care with. Arrangements are made person to person, over the phone or at the desk.
Tell B.R.I. what you are celebrating and it will prepare a complete plan for the evening — layout, timings, and menu — before you arrive. Plans can be revised as often as you like.
All event enquiries are handled through a single form, so your details reach the right person the first time.