Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ima!spdcc!rayssd!iws
From: iws@rayssdb.ray.com (Ihor W. Slabicky)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: ==>>  CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  Moving alt.rhode_island  <<==
Keywords: the time has come
Message-ID: <2877@rayssdb.ray.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:28:17 GMT
References: <106@rayssd.ray.com> <2399@gmu90x.UUCP>
Organization: Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI
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In article <2399@gmu90x.UUCP>, rmiller@gmu90x.UUCP (Richard Miller) writes:
> How about trying to figure out:
> 
> 	Why is the town north of KingsTON called North KingsTOWN?
> 
> 	Why does everyone call Connanicut Island JAMESTOWN?

Or why everyone on Rhode Island calls it Aquidneck Island?

> 	How come there is a West Greenwich and an East Greenwich,
> 	but no Greenwich?
> 
> 	And, by the way, what did that tanker captain think
> 	the Brenton Reef tower was sitting on?
> 
> "I hate living in a land where only carpenters make coffee cabinets."

The Newport Creamery is running some kind of contest where they
have hidden 5 golden cows and you have to find them.  Two have
been found already - one at The Institute somewhere in Mass. and
the other in front of the Library at URI.