LINCOLN - Twenty-four historic sites from around the state will be open Saturday, May 10 for the Preserve Rhode Island celebration sponsored by the new Historic Sites Coalition of Rhode Island.

Among them locally will be Lincoln's historic stone mansion, Hearthside, noon to 3:00 p.m., with a special porcelain doll exhibit.

The dolls were handcrafted by Judy Robinson and are dressed in historically accurate clothing, all of which were hand sewn by Robinson. Many of the dolls are copies of original antique dolls and have earned awards in competition.

Among the dolls in the exhibit are baby dolls, a couple dancing on a music box, bride doll, Victorian Lady, boy doll, and a 1920s girl in a Brownie Girl Scout Uniform.

Robinson began making dolls more than 20 years ago as a hobby. A resident of Lakeville, Mass., she is a Civil War re-enactor who has participated at Lincoln's Chase Farm re-enactments, and for the past 10 years has run J.R. Robinson Mercantile, provider of colonial and pirate clothes for re-enactors.

Also featured during the Open House event will be the blacksmiths at the Hannaway Blacksmith Shop, located next to Hearthside, where they will fire up the forge and demonstrate their craft of handforging steel into decorative household pieces.

Also open in Lincoln are the Captain Wilbur Kelly House on Lower River Road and Valentine Whitman Jr. House, 1147 Great Road. See visitpreserveri.org for a complete list statewide.