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Community Matters with Scott Cordischi featuring Gaspee Days with Jen Kious 6-14-25.wav

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 "Rhode Island's Original Waterfire" happens this time of the year in Pawtuxet Village RI, otherwise known as The Gaspee Days burning of the HMS Gaspee, now in it's 60th year. Jen Kious, Director of The Gaspee Days Committee joins us to reveal the history and happenings. This weekend of events "kicks off" with a 5K footrace and when the race concludes, the Gaspee Days Parade begins. The Gaspee Days Committee is a community nonprofit organization that operates many events in and around Pawtuxet Village, and is active year round. "These events are all designed to commemorate the burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots in 1772 as "America’s ‘First Blow for Freedom’, a short step from here to the First Continental Congress and eventually the Declaration of Independence". The weekend continues with a "Colonial Reenactment" (Saturday & Sunday), "Blessing of the Fleet" (Sunday) for all nautical participants, culminating in a scenic "Sunday in the Park" with a view of Pawtuxet Cove, for the HMS Gaspee symbolic blaze. Listen as Jen describes the scene as people line their chairs along the street in an annual pilgrimage, for the parade along Narragansett Parkway. The parade never disappoints, as individuals march in period garb with fife and drum and muskets performed by the Pawtuxet rangers and Lexington Minutemen. There's also always a show of vintage automobiles. She also describes the folks who participate in the Colonial Reenactment, true to the period in all aspects. You can hear the passion in Jen's voice as she reveals the history of the conflict and victory of the colonists. They used the sloop "Hannah" commanded by Captain Lindsey as a decoy, against the British soldiers under "the hated commander, Lt. William Dudingston, sent by King George III." Curiously, the Hannah has never been found!
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