Today is National Rhode Island Day. This might just be one of the last times I’ll use National State Days as inspiration for my posts. I’ve been doing this for a few years now as a way to promote our amazing country without all the political rhetoric. It’s getting to be time to move on . . .
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Rhode Island and Clam Chowder
Today is National Rhode Island Day. Rhode Island may have been the last of the colonies to join the Union, it was the first to demonstrate civil defiance against British authority. On June 10, 1772, Rhode Islanders boarded and sank the revenue cutter, Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay.
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Welcome to Rhode Island Day. Today we celebrate the last of the original colonies to become a state. Rhode Island was established by Roger Williams, a man persecuted for his beliefs in Massachusetts. Williams sought religious and political freedom when he established his colony in 1636 in what would become Providence, Rhode Island.
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Today is National Rhode Island Day. By now we all know that Rhode Island isn’t an island at all, yet it’s inhabitants are never more than an hour’s drive to the shoreline. And rightly so, since the shores of Rhode Island are public lands.
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Today we celebrate all that is Rhode Island. Despite its name, Rhode Island isn’t an actual island. The majority of the state is also part of mainland America. Like its name, Rhode Island is a land of contradictions.
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