Rhode Island
Rhode Island may be small on the map, but it holds a lot of life. The way you have lived it, and how you see it now, deserves to be kept in your own words.
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What did you drink after school, coffee milk or something else, and where did you go for clams?
Rhode Island may be small on the map, and a daily ToldForward answer can be small too: a sentence about the salt air, a few lines on the mill your town grew around. Held privately while you live, those small pieces become something whole for the people you choose, as vivid as a summer on Narragansett Bay.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island puts "Ocean State" on its license plates, and with 384 miles of shoreline wrapped around Narragansett Bay, it earns the name. In the middle of the bay sit Prudence, Patience and Hope islands. Many Rhode Islanders have a beach, a pier or a ferry ride that feels like theirs. Which spot do you picture when you think of summer? Tell the people you choose what the salt air smelled like and who was with you.
Coffee milk, made with coffee syrup, has been the official state drink since 1993, and the quahog is the official state shell. Rhode Island food has a strong local accent, and most people who grew up here have a favorite version of everything. What did you drink after school, and where did you go for clams? Little tastes like these make a person vivid on the page for whoever reads it one day.
In Pawtucket, Samuel Slater's cotton spinning mill set off a chain reaction along the Blackstone River that helped bring America into the age of industry. Whole communities took shape around that kind of work. Did you or the people around you work in a mill, a shop or a shipyard? The work that shaped your days is part of who you are, and it is worth explaining in your own words.
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