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Welcome to Quahog.org, the definitive Rhode Island road trip This site is a guide to the Ocean State’s history, culture, and quirks. Here you will find articles on much of what makes Rhode Island Rhode Island. Continued… Related: Quahog.org in the news • Staff • Submissions		Events Calendar RSS iCal Huh? January 31 Root for the Home Team: The Great and Proud Century of Newport Baseball, Newport February 1 A Downton Abbey Fashion Primer and Tea II, Providence February 7 A Gilded Age Tea, Newport 3rd Annual Frost Biters Bash, Bristol 3rd Annual Winter Sparkle, Providence Lincoln's Birthday Celebration, Lincoln February 9 Winter Waterfowl Birding on Prudence Island, Bristol February 12 Newport Gallery Night, Newport February 14 An Afternoon in 1820: Life at the Whitehorne House, Newport Aquidneck Indian Council Winter Potluck and Social, Tiverton More events January 31st in Rhode Island history 1867 Woonsocket is taken from Cumberland and incorporated. Its name is of Indian origin and means "to go downhill" or "at the cliff." 1969 Former governor John H. Chafee is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy. 1972 Rhode Island lobster fishermen complain of being harassed by Russian trawlers fishing off Point Judith. Extensive loss of fishing gear and a 75 percent decrease in the size of the catch are reported.
Facts and folklore Chopmist Hill and the United Nations by Barbara Sarkesian More proof that Rhode Island is often mistaken for the center of the world. Rhode Island in the Limelight: Television Updated Which city was described as a pit? Where did Agent Mulder's family spend their summers? Old Stone Bank History of Rhode Island Good old things. Pearl Harbor Day 1941 transcribed and annotated by Jane Lancaster As recorded in her diary by Helen Clarke Grimes, a not very typical Rhode Island housewife. More Facts & Folklore Cuisine Riverside Diner, Pawtucket Celebrity central, uh-huh! Crugnale Bakery and Pizza, Rumford, East Providence "Quality baked bread since 1917." And pizza strips! Main Street 2000 Restaurant, Woonsocket Taste the future! Del's, Coventry "Stop at the sign of the lemon," "It's refreshingly different!" Sam's New York System, Warwick "Best hot weiners in Rhode Island—no lian! [sic]" Howard's Chowder Shack, North Scituate, Scituate "We bring the ocean to you!" More Cuisine	Amazing PTs of World War II Marauders from Melville. Attractions Aardvark Antiques, Newport Knickknacks of the rich and famous! The Westerly Armory, Westerly by Colonel Howard F. Brown and Professor Roberta Mudge Humble An old soldier with a modern mission. The Arcade, Providence The nation's oldest indoor shopping mall! Clarendon Court Mansion, Newport Murder or mishap? Grave of Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr, Providence Rhode Island's outlaw governor. More Attractions

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