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Family Guy Rhode Island Video |
Secret Ingredient Food and
Beverage Tour |
Tour Your Own Backyard |
Blackstone Valley
Explorer 2010 |
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View Family Guy's take on the
Blackstone Valley and Rhode Island
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Blackstone Valley Culinaria Tour
(weekly
demonstrations and meals)
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Check out new restaurants just added |
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Tour: Saturday, March 13, 2010 Greenhouse Gardens &
Interior Floral Motifs More |
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Cherry Trees of the Blackstone
Walk/Run & Breakfast |
Abraham Lincoln Train Ride |
Golfblackstone.com Annual Golf Tournament |
Blackstone Valley
Polar Express |
Dragonboat Races & Taiwan Festival |
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May 1,
2010: Festival Race & Breakfast The Cherry
Trees of the Blackstone initiative is an important
process in the transformation of a historic mill
corridor into an energetic, pedestrian-friendly
neighborhood.
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May 15,
2010
Abraham Lincoln Visits the Blackstone Valley 150th
Anniversary Train Ride - May 15th, 2010.
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Monday, June 14,
1 PM
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Dates, more info and tickets
available the first week of February
2010.
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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Pawtucket Arts Festival |
Meat Pie Cook-Off |
Fall Foliage Tours |
Riverfront Concert Series |
River in the Classroom |
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Stay tuned for 2010 Info. High-quality
visual, performance and participatory arts EVENTS by Rhode
Island, regional, national and internationally-known artists
that take place for the enjoyment of Pawtucket residents and
visitors.
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September 11, 2010. All
day event includes Meat Pie Cook-off
& Apple Pie Bake-off, French
Canadian dance, arts and crafts,
river tours.
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Stay Tuned for 2010 info. Blackstone Valley Fall Foliage & Shopping
Train Excursion to Putnam, CT. More |
Stay tuned
for 2010 info. Free Sunday
concerts every Sunday. More info call 401-724-2200 |
High quality inquiry based educational programs on the
Blackstone River Explorer for Students. See 2010 schedule.
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Cumberlandfest |
Great Dynamite Cook-Off |
Arnold Mills July 4th Parade |
Annual Dinner |
Footsteps in History |
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Stay tuned for 2010 info. Enjoy family fun
events featuring amusement rides, games, a carnival, live
music and entertainment, food court and other summertime
activities. More |
September 11, 2010
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July 4,
2010 Come celebrate Independence Day with us! Begun
in 1927, the Arnold Mills parade, in
Cumberland, RI, continues to be a
family tradition
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Stay Tuned for 2010 info. Take an adventure through the
centuries during the Blackstone River Valley Footsteps in History
Preserve America Weekend.
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North Smithfield Pumpkin Festival |
Greek Festival |
Glocester Ancient & Horribles Parade |
Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day |
Autumnfest - Woonsocket |
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Stay tuned for 2010 info. Live entertainment on the grounds of North Smithfield
Elementary School.
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Travel to a Greek Village This Summer – right here in Rhode
Island! The Assumption Greek Church 82nd Annual Festival
will transform the parish grounds into a virtual Greek
Village - and invite EVERYONE to join in their glendi (Greek
Village Festival).
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July 4, 2010
Nothing
is sacred as Glocester locals spoof local and national
politics during the famous Ancients and Horribles Parade on
the Fourth of July More |
Stay tuned for 2010 info. Diamond Hill
Park. A great opportunity to pass
your passion for cycling on to your
kids.
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Stay tuned for 2009 info.
Three day festival that includes, arts and crafts, ethnic
foods, fireworks, parades, amusements and much more
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Cycling Tours |
Paddling Tours |
Slater Mill |
Spring Lake Beach Facility |
Museum of Work & Culture |
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Discover the back roads of America’s
Birthplace of the Industrial
Revolution. From historic village
greens to restored mill villages,
cycle through the Blackstone River
Valley National Heritage Corridor.
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Discover the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, America’s birthplace of the
Industrial Revolution. Canoe and kayak the Blackstone River and
paddle along serene vistas, through mill villages and enjoy the wildlife
and flora in its natural habitat.
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An interactive
museum located on the banks of the Blackstone River
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2010
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This interactive museum presents the compelling and touching
story of the French Canadians who left the farms of Quebec
for the factories of New England....More |
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Gamm Theatre |
Stadium Theatre |
Diamond Hill Vineyards |
Blackstone River Theatre |
Samuel Slater Canal Boat & Bed & Breakfast |
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The Gamm
presents plays of substance and distinction, acted with
excellence and offered to the public in an intimate setting
that allows the audience to be immersed fully in the
ambiance of the production and the interchange between the
actors themselves, and between the actors and the audience.
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Established in 1976, Diamond Hill
Vineyards is a small family run
vineyard in northeastern Rhode
Island making a wide range of grape
and fruit wines.......More |
The former site
of the Unity Masonic Lodge, the theatre was built in 1928
and abandoned in 1987; the brick structure has been and
continues to be renovated for use as a nonprofit cultural
arts center with an emphasis on the music and dance
traditions of the Blackstone River Valley...
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British Tea tours
and chartered cruises.
Will return to the water in 2010.
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Smith Appleby House |
Historic Chepachet Village |
Hearthside House |
Captain Wilbur Kelly House Museum |
Hannaway Blacksmith Shop |
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Built (circa 1696) by Elisha Smith, the grandson of John
Smith “The Miller”, cartographer of the NE coastline and a
member of Roger William’s original party of six men who left
the Massachusetts Bay Colony to settle in.
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Quaint, rural Rhode Island village with numerous antique and
collectible shops.
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Brown & Hopkins
Country Store
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A unique 1810 stone mansion, known as the house that love
built," on pastoral Great Road, the first road through the
wilderness between Providence and Mendon, Massachusetts, and
one of the oldest thoroughfares in America.
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It's where all of the
transportation stories of the Blackstone River Valley come
together. The museum shows the history of the river and
canal as a means of transportation from the Native American
peoples to the pinnacle of the Industrial Revolution.
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Serves as the
gateway to Chase Farm Park and adjacent to Hearthside.
William H. Hannaway opened his first blacksmith shop in a
lean-to
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Valentine
Whitman House |
Lincoln Visitor Center |
Pawtucket Visitor Center |
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Whitman's home is one of a few surviving "stone-end" houses
built in the 17th century. Whitman was a friend of Roger
Williams, founder of Rhode Island. The first town meeting of
old Smithfield, which included Lincoln, was held in this
house in 1730.
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Located between
Exit 9 and 10 on the Northbound side of Rte. 295, the
Visitors Center is open 7 days 24 hours a day and provides
Blackstone Valley information and brochures. More
Info: 401-334-6723 between 9am and 5pm |
Located at 175
Main Street, the Visitors Center is open Mon. - Sat. from
10 - 5 and Sun. 1 - 5. The Center provides Blackstone Valley
information and brochures and boasts a 90 seat theatre
showing a 19 minute movie of the Blackstone River Valley
Corridor from East Providence, RI to Worcester, MA.
More Info: 401-724-2200 |
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