Gaspee Days Parade 2017: Marching, Muskets, Music
Saturday’s Gaspee Days parade was graced with fair 70-degree weather and the usual enthusiastic crowd watching marching bands and floats from lawn chairs, front lawns, porches and roofs.
Gaspee Days 2017
Gaspee Days 5K 2017: Results, Photos
The 52nd annual Gaspee Days 5K enjoyed weather in the 70s, a little warmer than the ideal for long-distance runners, but members of the 1,487 strong field sported smiles as they finished to the cheers of friends and announcers.
![[CREDIT: Beth Hurd] Members of the Lexington Minutemen emerge from the smoke of their recently fired muskets, walking along the red, white and blue-striped Gaspee Days parade route on Saturday, June 11.](https://warwickpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gaspee_parade-2016_03-140x140.jpg)
Your Guide to Gaspee Days 2017
It’ll be about a month before the rest of the nation celebrates American Independence on July 4, but Warwick gets a head start, just like it’s done since the burning of the Gaspee, which preceded the Boston Tea Party in 1773 by more than a year.
