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Catch a Cool Rhode Island Breeze This Spring

by Greg B.

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by Courtney Iseman

Rhode Island’s tiny size doesn’t keep it from making a name for itself in the beer industry. It holds its own in New England with a few great breweries that produce beer varieties sold through Rhode Island, New England, the Northeast, and for some, even the country. Rhode Island breweries also boast the benefit of being made into a total day trip, since each one is but a short distance from a scenic activity or right in the middle of a city full of things to do.
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Slicing Serves and Sandwiches at the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Crowley’s Casino Pub

by Suzy Guese

Newport, Rhode Island is famous for its stuffy mansions along Bellevue Avenue. However, just before the mansions begin to appear along the famous road, Crowley’s Casino Pub and the International Tennis Hall of Fame offer the country club feel of the mansions without the nose in the air attitude.

Established in 1880, Crowley’s dishes out classic Irish pub food. In fact, the pub was designed in keeping with the pubs of Kinsale, Ireland, Newport’s sister city in the unbelievably green country. The Kinsale Chicken Club on the menu notes the Irish connection, a sandwich idea brought over the Atlantic to be served at Crowley’s.

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Living Vicariously Through American Tycoons by Peeking in the Windows of the Newport Mansions

by Suzy Guese

In American’s smallest state of Rhode Island, some of the biggest residences in the country stoically line up along Newport’s coastline. The country’s high society of the 1800s arrived in Newport during summer months to live like true American kings and queens.

Most of the homes along the Newport coast were built between 1748 and 1902, tracing the country’s social and architectural development from the Colonial Era to the Gilded Age. Spanning some 80 acres of gardens and parks, the homes present the ultimate summer vacation residences. While there are dozens of homes to see and even tour, a few of the historic mansions truly stand out against the Newport seaside.

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