May 10 2023 - Trudy Coxe talks with Pulitzer Prize winning biographer TJ Stiles about The Age Of The Machine, his upcoming lecture. As broadcast

April 12 2023 - Trudy Coxe's guest: Matthew Bird, Industrial Design Faculty at Rhode Island School of Design. He teaches design and design history. On April 20 at 6 p.m. – in the Great Hall of The Breakers and live on Zoom – Matthew will present “The Gilded Age: The First Information Age.” This will be the second presentation in our special series, The Gilded Age Years: Transforming America

March 8 2023 - Trudy Coxe's guest: Guest Lecturer in new Newport Mansions lecture series in April: Dr Michael Patrick Cullinane, historian, award-winning author, host of "Gilded Age and Progressive Era" podcast.

Host: Trudy Coxe, Executive Director, Preservation Society Newport County Theresa Guzmán Stokes, President and founder of 1696 Heritage Group and Executive Director of the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society – the oldest African Heritage society in the United States. Theresa will be one of the panelists for our lecture “African American Designers and Dressmakers,”

Dec 2022 - Trudy Coxe's guest is Ken Turino of Historic New England "Expert On Christmas"

Host Bill Tavares, PSNC Communications Director fills in for Trudy Coxe. Guest: Marc Seifer, the author of a new book on Nicola Tesla.

Wed Oct 12 2022 - Host Bill Tavares - Guest Travel Writer John Henry on "Night Boats - The Fall River Line" Oct 20 Gilded Age Lecture

Aug 10 2022 - Trudy Coxe talks with Julian Fellowes, creator of "The Gilded Age" as well as "Downton Abbey." This chat was recorded during Lord Fellowes's appearance at The Breakers August 3, 2022.

July 13 2022 - Host: Bill Tavares, Communications Director - Our guest will be Rebecca Kelly, a Newport, RI based independent textile and fashion scholar. We will be discussing the evolution of fashion during The Gilded Age along with the growth of department stores and other matters related to fashion in this era and how it is portrayed in the HBO series. Rebecca is author of the essay Fashion in the Gilded Age: A Profile of Newport's King Family in the book Twentieth-Century American Fashion. She is currently a lecturer at both The Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Rhode Island and previously worked as a textile conservator holding positions at The Preservation Society of Newport County and later the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Wed June 8 2022 - Trudy Coxe's Guest: Lady Carnavon, Castle Highclerc

Apr 13 2022 - Host: Trudy Coxe - Guest: Historian Bill Brand

Inside The Newport Mansions with Bill Tavares filling in for Trudy Coxe. Bill's guest is Scott Greenberger, executive editor of Stateline, a nonprofit journalism project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Scott guides a team of veteran journalists who report on state politics and policy in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Before joining Pew, Scott was a staff writer at The Boston Globe.

Host: Bill Tavares - Guest: Bill Allman, former Curator of White House

Wed Jan 12 2022 - Trudy Coxe with Pieter Roos, dir, Mark Twain Museum upcoming lecturer on Twain and Gilded Age

Wed Dec 08 - Trudy Coxe - Guest: Curator Historian Ulysses (Grant) Dietz on HBO The Gilded Age and Spring 2022 Exhibit

Host: Bill Tavares, PSNC Communications Manager - Guests: Jim Donahue, Curator, Historic Landscapes on Sparkling Lights At Breakers - Patricia Miller, Chief Curator - rehabbed 400 yr old Tapestry Returns - Sarah Iwanski, Dir of Development

Host: Bill Tavares, PSNC - Guests: Trudy Coxe Inside The Newport Mansions with Bill Tavares from the Newport Mansions as host - guests: Jessica Roscio of the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University, the next speaker in our Sculpting the Gilded Age lecture series; and Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator Leslie B. Jones, who will share some very exciting happenings at the Preservation Society.

We're going Inside The Newport Mansions with Trudy Coxe and her guests: Teresa Crean is a Coastal Community Planner with the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Center - discussing this hurricane season; and Darrio Prescod (press-cod), a National Brand Ambassador for Crafted Spirits at Remy Cointreau (Remmy Quan-tro), to talk about Rum and cocktails at the upcoming Mansions Wine and Food Festival. Then Melanie Garcia, Director of Museum Experience will provide the latest updates on what is going on at The Newport Mansions.

Inside The Newport Mansions with Bill Tavares hosting today Guests: John Grove, Principal and Partner at Reed-Hilderbrand, LLC, and is a landscape architect. talking about the unveiling of Phase II of The Breakers Landscape revival and David Rogers and his Big Bugs At Green Animals

Inside The Newport Mansions with Trudy Coxe and her guests: Mark Brodeur, the Director of International Sales at Rhode Island Commerce; Sara Long from the Decorative Arts Trust. She will speak about our Third Annual Emerging Scholars Colloquium; and Melanie Garcia, The Preservation Society of Newport County’s Visitor Experience Operations Manager to talk about the opening of The Elms grounds and Marble House on May 28th!

Inside The Newport Mansions with Trudy Coxe Trudy's guests: Sara J. Oshinsky (oh-Shin-skee) Independent Historian and lecturer this month for the Creativity in Crisis series; Dan Christina, Chief Horticulturist of the Preservation Society to talk about Green Animals reopening this weekend; and LESLIE JONES, Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator to talk about the Resident Fellows project

Inside the Newport Mansions today hosted by Preservation Society's Bill Tavares and Director of Museum Affairs and Chief Curator Leslie Jones. Guests will be architectural historian Margot Ellis, giving a Zoom lecture tomorrow on "The Americans In Paris." Also landscape and horticulture curator Jim Donahue to discuss Back In Bloom-the 2021 version of the Flower Show

Wednesday Feb 10 - Guests: John Grosvenor to discuss Horace Trumbauer Lecture - Research Fellow Sebastien Dutton

Jan 13 2021 - Inside Newport Mansions with Trudy Coxe and her guests: Sam White, the great-grandson of iconic designer Stanford White who has written a book about his great-grandfather. Also Pat Fernandez, longtime chair of the Newport Flower Show to talk about the award the Preservation Society received from the Garden Clubs of America.