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May 25-26
Downcity Providence Food Tour, Providence
Empire Revue: Benny's, the Musical!, Providence
May 25-27
Newport Neighborhood Food Tour, Newport
May 26
Mystery at the Museum: Double Jeopardy, Newport
WaterFire, Providence
May 26-28
Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival, Pawtuxet, Warwick
May 27
Blackstone Valley Explorer Nature and Heritage Tour, Central Falls
Rhode Island Postcard Club meeting, North Providence
Empire Revue: Benny's, the Musical!, Providence
May 28
Memorial Day Parade, Chepachet, Glocester
More events
May 25th in Rhode Island history*
1778
The British pillage and burn thirty buildings in Warren and Bristol. On the Kickemuit River they burn between seventy and eighty flat-bottomed boats that had been prepared for Major General Joseph Spencer's invasion of Aquidneck Island. Sixty prisoners are taken to Newport.
1895
The Rhode Island General Assembly passes a resolution that the halls of the new State House should be decorated with portraits of past Rhode Island colonial and state governors.
1914
The First National Bank of Hopkinton (Charter #1054) opts not to join the new Federal Reserve system. It is voluntarily liquidated and its assets are assumed by Washington Trust of Westerly.
1921
Bishop Harkins dies. Bishop William A. Hickey, D.D., becomes the third Bishop of Providence.
1951
Rhode Island voters approve holding a constitutional convention, 16,737 to 4,183.
