Being born and raised in Rhode Island I feel like I know nothing about my state. So every Thursday my friend and I try to go around RI and learn something new, well at lest I learn something new usually from my friend. ha ha! And it is AWESOME! I love finding new things about my beloved state.
"Roger Williams Park was formed in
1873 from 102 acres of land bequeathed to the city of Providence by Betsey
Williams, the great-great-great-grandaughter of Roger Williams."
Yesterday we went to Roger Williams Park, the Victorian Rose Garden was my favorite. I counted this trip as research for my job in the bakery, because I always thought I was making my butter cream roses wrong. Then again I've never really looked at a rose while piping on a cake.
It was a wonderful morning relaxing with a friend surrounded roses. But what impressed me the most was the wonders in the Botanical Garden.
"The City of Providence began plans for the Botanical Center in 2000. The
Center opened its doors in March 2007 and was voted "Best Urban Oasis"
in its first year by the Editor's Poll in Rhode Island Monthly magazine.
It is the largest public indoor-display gardens in New England,
encompassing approximately 12,000 square feet of botanical delights"
Next we went to Slater Park.
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| friends being silly in the gardens! |
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| The bandstand built in 1917 |
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| Climbing trees! |
"Slater Park Zoo. Early in Slater Park's development, a small collection
of animals was put on display just across from the Daggett House. In
1916, this miniature zoo housed only pigeons, rabbits, and deer which
roamed in a fenced run. A small herd of elk were in residence by 1936
but not until the late 1950s were any really exotic animals added to the
park's menagerie. At that time some of the deer were traded for a lion,
a leopard, an Arctic wolf, a baboon, two
aoudads,
and several monkeys. A series of concrete-block shelters with fenced
runs was constructed to house the new arrivals and others soon to be
purchased from the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus. At one
time, the City of Pawtucket had an arrangement with the circus to
quarter numerous animals in the zoo for several months of the year. Its
most famous resident was
Fanny the elephant who lived at the zoo for more than three decades. Suffering financially, much of the zoo was closed in the 1990s.
[3] Today, while many of the original enclosures are still there, the area now serves as a petting zoo called Daggett Farm. "
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| being silly!! |
It was awesome! We had such a good time and learned a ton about the state! I've been living in one of the oldest states in this country, I should learn all the I can about it.
