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From: ras@rayssdb.ray.com (Ralph A. Shaw)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: ==>>  CALL FOR DISCUSSION:  Moving alt.rhode_island  <<==
Keywords: Thanks for the plug, Heather.
Message-ID: <2878@rayssdb.ray.com>
Date: 20 Oct 89 20:57:15 GMT
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Reply-To: ras@rayssdb.RAY.COM (Ralph A. Shaw)
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In article (mumble mumble mumble) rmiller@gmu90x.UUCP (Richard Miller) sez:

>How about trying to figure out:
>
>	Why is the town north of KingsTON called North KingsTOWN?
Kingston is a village in the town of South Kingstown, which also
includes West Kingston.  North of this town is North Kingstown, and
somewhere out with Atlantis is presumably East Kingston (a village).
See, they're consistent - the ``ton''s are villages, the ``towns''
are towns.  I'm not sure it was planned that way, but who cares.
Aren't you glad you didn't ask where Altown and Barringtown are?

>
>	Why does everyone call Connanicut Island JAMESTOWN?
Same reason they call Newport/Middletown/Portsmouth Aquidneck Island
-- it brings in more tourists.  (Actually, it's called Rhode Island
and the rest of us mainlanders are living in the Plantations).

>
>	How come there is a West Greenwich and an East Greenwich,
>	but no Greenwich?
See "Kingston/Kingstown" discussion, they were both lost when the
glacier came thru here...

>	And, by the way, what did that tanker captain think
>	the Brenton Reef tower was sitting on?
Why, East Kingston, of course.  (The glacier pushed it further
south and west of its original location).