Part community yard sale, part arts event, the YART SALE will feature yard sale vendors, artisan vendors, re-use workshops and a gallery showcase focusing on art made from reclaimed and repurposed objects. Sunday, June 13th 8am-2pm. $1 admission, free for kids 12 & under. Call 401.490.9475 or visit artists-exchange.org for...
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Providence Children’s Museum and Explore Cranston present a free public screening of “Where Do the Children Play?” This thought-provoking documentary examines an issue of growing concern among pediatricians, mental health experts, educators and environmentalists: more and more children are growing up with few opportunities for unstructured play, especially outdoors.
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Author Tim Lehnert will discuss his book and how he came to write it. He will also show slides of Rhode Island scenes. Tim will be selling his book and will happily autograph any purchase. The program is free and open to the public Call (401) 781-2450, email hall@cranstonlibrary.org, or...
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Save The Bay is holding a one day spring market Saturday April 17, from 9-12, at its headquarters on the bay near Johnson & Wales bayside campus. Farmers will be selling produce, the URI master gardeners will be distributing information and lots more will be happening. (It’s worth the trip...
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FARM & RIVER DAY / OFFICIAL MARKET OPENING
BIRD WALK: Guided by Mike Kieron, assistant curator of the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History. 8 AM in the lower Rhodes on the Pawtuxet parking lot, Rhodes Place, Cranston. Bring binoculars, but not dogs. Children should be at least seven years...
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What is a Paw Paw?
— Tom Hoffman · Sep 15, 02:19 PM · #
A Paw Paw is a native Eastern North American tree that produces large, tasty fruit during the latter half of October. The fruit is soft like custard, and tastes like a mango doing an impression of a banana at a Caribbean island resort.
Sadly it has an incredibly short shelf life – which explains why they rarely (if ever) show up in supermarkets.
Rocky Point Farm has a Paw Paw orchard – possibly the largest one in New England – and they sell their wares at the Festival and the Farmers’ Market in October.
— Josh · Sep 15, 03:06 PM · #