So Rhode Island is NOT an island, although it has many of them! We loved the White Horse Tavern. Cheers from the oldest continuously operating tavern in the USA, since 1673. Rhode Island had the foresight NOT to vote for Prohibition!
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- Rhode Island was named by a Dutch navigator who called it Roode Eylandt (“red island”) because of its red clay. Which is actually algae. Oops!
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- Gravel underfoot? No, it’s all clam shells!
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- They WERE very clean.
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- Andrew Hem’s Misty Blue mural is backed by Johan Bjurman’s incredible Trompe l’oeil façade at Hanley Building.
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- Rhode Island is one of the 13 original colonies.
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- Lager and a Hendricks with club soda, please!
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- Charming and steeped in history. For almost 100 years, this large and comfortable tavern was the meeting place of the Colony’s General Assembly, Criminal Court and City Council.
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- Just one of the elegant mansions along the Cliff Walk in Newport, where the rich and famous hobnobbed in the roaring 1920s.
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