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WARWICK, RI — The 58th Gaspee Days parade proceeded under clear weather in the mid 70s, with spectacles, music and booms from musket and cannon fire for spectators among the […]
![[CREDIT: Laura Paton] Tyler Shammas of Warwick nears the finish line in Saturday’s Gaspee Days 5K race, with a time of 20:32.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Gaspee-Days-5K-2024-8347.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&resize=250%2C188&ssl=1)
CRANSTON, RI — The 59th annual Gaspee Days 5K enjoyed clear weather in the mid 70s, as members of the 1,741-strong field crossed the finish line at Rhodes on the […]
WARWICK, RI — This weekend, the state wraps Gaspee Days, the celebration of its lead role in the Revolutionary War, the burning of the HMS Gaspee by a daring band of […]
![[CREDIT: Warwick Post] The Memorial Day Weekend edition Warwick Weekend includes the Gaspee Days Arts & Crafts Festival and a Memorial Day observance Monday.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Warwick-Weekend-Memorial-Day-Weekend-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
Wondering why your event isn’t here? It might not be happening in Rhode Island, which is a requirement, OR, you might not have entered it into our calendar. Social media […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Musket fire was a regular thrill for spectators during the 2021 Gaspee Day Parade.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Gaspee-Day-Parade-2021-15-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — Not long after the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee by a daring band of Rhode Islanders, newspaper accounts of the deed reached Col. George Washington at Mount Vernon, […]
WARWICK, RI — The Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival treats crowds to the food and wares of more than 100 art, craft and food vendors when its annual Narragansett […]
![[CREDIT: Gaspee Days] More than 50 children signed up for a past Gaspee Days Walking Tour. This year, only 25 signed up.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Gapee-Days-Walking-Tour-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The Gaspee Days Walking Tour, the usual kickoff point for Gaspee Day events starring students garbed in period attire, telling the stories of colonial Pawtuxet Village, has […]
Warwick, RI — Rhode Island celebrates its daring lead role in the Revolutionary War with Gaspee Days in Pawtuxet Village this weekend, honoring “The First Blow for Freedom,” the 1772 […]
![[CREDIT: WarwickPost File Photo] Crowds walk Narragansett Parkway during the 2015 Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival. The festival returns this weekend, one of many events in the Warwick Weekend lineup.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Gaspee-Days-Arts-And-Crafts-Festival-Warwick-Weekend-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The first Warwick Weekend of fall is here and it’s chock-full of great events, so grab a friend or your family and check out all the amazing […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Kevin McCarthy and his daughter, Asliyna Sollitto,6, watch the 2021 Gaspee Day Parade Saturday, June 12.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Gaspee-Day-Parade-2021-6-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — It was supposed to rain, but by the time the Gaspee Days Parade started rolling just before 11 a.m. Saturday, the atmosphere was sunny and upbeat along […]
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Pawtuxet Rangers at the 2017 Gaspee Days Parade.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/GaspeeParade_17_8-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
The 55th Gaspee Days celebration has been canceled, including all its annual events due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Gaspee Days Committee announced Sunday.
![[CREDIT:Rob Borkowski] Runners start off for the Gaspee Days 5K Saturday, June 10, 2018.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Gaspee-Day-5K-2018-2-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
The Gaspee Days 5K enjoyed high 70s temps as runners sporting smiles and determined gazes crossed the finish line at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet Saturday .
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] The Gloucester Light Infantry Military Militia fire their muskets at the start of the Gaspee Days Parade June 9, 2018.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Gaspee-Days-Parade-2018-19-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — The 2018 Gaspee Days Parade got a late start at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday as temperatures began to climb into the 80s, creating a perfect atmosphere for people […]
Celebrate RI’s lead role in the Revolutionary War Gaspee Days weekend honoring the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee starting with a 5K and parade Saturday.
The Gaspee Days Arts and Crafts Festival will treat crowds to the food and wares of more than 100 art, craft and food vendors for its 53rd annual celebration along Narragansett Parkway this coming Memorial Day weekend.
Three years after WarwickPost.com’s launch on April 20, 2014, a combination of subscribers and advertisers helped the site beef up its budget coverage of the 2017 budget hearings, and aided our effort to expand school reporting to the 2017 public high school graduations.
On Saturday, June 10, Warwick celebrated “The First Blow for Freedom,” the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee by a rebellious band of Rhode Islanders, commemorated every year with Gaspee Day events, including the Gaspee Day Parade.
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.
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://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Gaspee_parade-2016_03-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
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.
First Lady Michelle Obama has named Warwick as one of the nation’s newest Preserve America Communities, noting the city’s significant role in the country’s colonial and industrial history and recognizing its museums and events teaching and celebrating that heritage, Gaspee Days chief among them.
One unintended consequence of the recent state-wide tourism debacle was to shed a spotlight on a local annual celebration known to almost all natives of Rhode Island: the annual Gaspee Days Parade, held on Saturday, June 11.
Warwick, RI — The 51st Gaspee Days 5K is in the books, with fair weather and an ever-enthusiastic field of runners, including race men’s and women’s division winners 24-year-olds Jacob Sienko of […]
Warwick, RI — You can work up your patriotism during Gaspee Days in Pawtuxet this weekend celebrating “The First Blow for Freedom,” the 1772 burning of the HMS Gaspee by […]
Warwick Post’s first full year of reporting on the city was a momentous one, with historic developments, disasters natural and man-made, a local politician vying for the nation’s highest office, a local man arrested for his involvement in a terrorist plot, the developing renewal of Apponaug Village, and a fight over public records between two elected bodies neither wants to give to the public.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI] continued his annual tradition of recounting the burning of the HMS Gaspee on Tuesday, June 9, the eighth year he has taken to the floor of the Senate to commemorate the Colonial uprising against the British.
Warwick, RI — Why wait until July 4 to show your patriotic pride, when you can get into the Colonial spirit at Gaspee Days in Pawtuxet this weekend? Called “The […]
The Gaspee Days Arts & Crafts Festival will treat crowds to the fare and wares of more than 100 art, craft and food vendors for its 50th annual celebration along Narragansett Parkway this weekend.
Friends of Mayor Scott Avedisian, who helped celebrate his 50th birthday and Gaspee Days’ 50th anniversary at One Rhodes Plaza, Cranston Tuesday night, are eager to tell you the relationship between man and event date back at least 36 years.
Warwick, RI — A couple of cinematic treats are on the upcoming calender for Warwick, including a brand new documentary on the HMS Gaspee.
Nine years ago, Susan Shapiro and Jim Carroll of Warwick opened their gift shop, Art & Soul on the city line at 2007 Broad St. in Cranston, during the Gaspee Days Parade.
Warwick Post has your answer, whether you’re hoping to glimpse some of the parade or just trying to describe it to friends: Warwick Post caught some highlights from the percussive spectacle and we’re sharing them with you.
The 49th Annual Gaspee Days Parade started with a bang, and kept up the percussive momentum as a string of spectacles marched past throngs along Narragansett Parkway Saturday morning.
Spectators of the 49th Annual Gaspee Days Foot Race remarked with surprise when first-place finisher Glarius Rop turned the corner for the home stretch of the 5K course down Rhodes Place in Cranston Saturday morning.
This weekend, it’s all about Gaspee Days in Pawtuxet — check out the schedule of events.
Check out this week’s menu of events around Warwick.
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We’ve got a handy list of upcoming events in the city, including performances at Ocean State Theatre, improv at WMOA, and poetry in Pawtuxet — plus, an early preview of Gaspee Days events.
The Gaspee Days Arts & Crafts Festival treated crowds to the fare and wares of about 120 art, craft and food vendors for its 49th annual celebration this weekend.
