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Click Here to Purchase Photo Merry Christmas everyone, or as they say in Hawaii Mele Kalikimaka. If you live in Southern New England sorry it is not much of a white Christmas, so hopefully today’s photograph, taken a couple days after the large snow storm last week, will help give you at least some sense [...]
Click Here to Purchase Photo Click Here to Purchase Photo It is Veterans Day again, the anniversary of Armistice Day which occurred on November, 11 1918. Today it has been 90 years since the armistice, which marked the cessation of the most of the hostilities and fighting of World War I. Today’s pictures come from [...]
Click Here to Purchase Photo Today’s picture is of a Jack O’ Lantern, as today is October 31, All Hallows eve, more commonly known as Halloween. The Jack O’ Lantern pictured here is from the 2007 Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular, which was held at McCoy stadium (home of the Pawtucket Red Sox; PawSox for short) [...]
Apparently today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day; it was invented by a couple of guys playing racquetball on June, 6 1995 after one of them was injured and yell out “Arrr!”. The men that started the holiday were John Baur and Mark Summers who decided to use September 19th because it was Summers’ [...]
Memorial day is a day for remembering and celebrating the contributions of our Armed Service members who died in service. The day was originally established originally to honor Union Soldiers who died during the American Civil War, and was originally called Decoration Day. After World War I (WWI) it became a day to honor all armed service member who have died in service. The day traditionally fell on May 30th and was moved to the last Monday of May after the Uniform holidays bill was passed in congress on June 28, 1968 which moved it and three other holidays to Mondays. Memorial is the unofficial start of summer and beginning of a time of vacations and other summer fun. There are races, such as the Indiana 500, many parades, and conferences such as the annual conference at North Stoning Bible Church (NSBC). Indeed Memorial Day is a great time of celebration, and it is ashamed that we can so often forget what we are memorializing.
For this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration there were (or are soon to be) many large parades in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and in many other places around the country. Today the parades, which began in the United States, have even spread back to Ireland with parades in Dublin and other larger celebrations in Ireland. Before, the celebrations in Ireland used to be a relatively small. One particular parade in Newport Rhode Island has been running 52 years and while it is certainly not as large as New York and Boston it is a large parade in its own right with:
“10 Pipe Bands, 12 Marching Bands, 4 Fife & Drum Corps, 3 Clown Units, 7 reenactment units, and a host of local, state, and regional organizations including police and fire units, social/fraternal organizations, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Schools, and non-profits.”
On New Year’s Day all across Rhode Island people ran into the frigid waters as part of the annual Polar Bear swim to celebrate The New Year. Rhode Island is of course nicknamed the ocean state, so there is no shortage of beaches to take the plunge. Those taking the plunge had their choice [...]
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Today is Poinsettia day which was name after the man who brought the poinsettia plant back from Mexico, and began what would become the modern poinsettia industry in this country. Above is a picture of Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779 – 1851); the man whom poinsettia day is named in honor of, and the first United [...]
Yesterday workers at the Rhode Island state house were busy setting up for the upcoming Christmas holiday. They placed one large Christmas tree in the very center of the state house, which they were getting ready to put the lights on; and numerous other Christmas trees are on display, from around the world. Also there [...]
The Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular at McCoy stadium from October 5th through the 30th featured over 150,000 pounds of pumpkins carved (just imagine how many pumpkins pies could of been made from that 75 tons of pumpkins) by a team of 30 professional pumpkins carvers[1]. The pumpkins were set up all around the stadium walkways [...]
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