I THINK ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT OUR EARLY COLONIAL HISTORY IS THAT WE ACTUALLY WERE NOT PART OF RHODE ISLAND. WE WERE THE WESTERN BORDER OF PLYMOUTH COLONY. THEN AROUND 1690 ...

At over 350 years old, this tavern's restaurant has many a wild story attached to it, not least that of one of its notorious ...

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