Gaspee Days - Just a Parade or Rhode Island Heritage? - 06/09/10 10:52 AM
Most Rhode Islanders' have either seen or participated in or at the very least, heard about the Burning of the Gaspee on June 9, 1772.
Every year there is a parade down Narragansett Parkway in Warwick and Cranston that celebrates a fight for freedom inspired by our ancestors.
From the beginning, Rhode Islanders' were always a little different in that they did not follow the "rules". Most Rhode Islanders believed in freedom. Many Rhode Islanders sailed from England to Boston in search of freedom. When they found religious intolerance in Boston, they moved to RI and tried to start fresh. 
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