#roger williams

[chocolatewoosh]

Neither Roger nor his daughter Mary really know how to draw, but after Roger finds some old pictures Mary drew when she was younger, the two decide to do some doodling for an afternoon.

[andallshallbewell]

[chaotic-history]

Voltaire attacking Shakespeare has the exact same energy as literally every insult said against Roger Williams. Criticise them all you want, but it's never going to sound like anything other than frustration over wanting to hate them while not being able to. Every negative you say about them is also an admiration

[rhode-island-empire]

Silly Game Time: After a long and exemplary career, the Great Sphinx has decided to retire from guarding the Pyramids (round of applause for the Greay Sphinx).

Who/What do you nominate to fill this vacancy and become the new guardian of the Pyramids?

Who other than Roger Williams???? Seriously there is no other choice he's so wicked pissah he's gotta be it and everyone's gonna know his name and stuff!!!

[motherwytch]

Red Wolf

The Fam and I visited the Roger Williams Park Zoo today and I got some lovely shots of my most favorite animal that they have.

This beautiful girl is Saluda, and she is one-half of the mating pair that resides at RWZ.

The red wolf is the most endangered wolf species on the planet. There is only an estimated 20 left living on protected land in the wild, and approximately 240 in captivity within breeding programs like the one in place at RWZ.

I've always felt especially connected to Wolves, and it saddens me to know that they are in danger of dying out.

RWZ is my family's favorite zoo, and we purchase a membership every year, something I intend to continue doing for the foreseeable future so I can see all of Saluda's future puppies ❤️

[sphoricusreads]

I’m Rosie/Marlowe, and I really like to read. Consider following me/liking/rebloging this post if you also like books (I will probably follow you back).

I will mostly be posting quotes from whatever I’m reading, but I may also rant about literature from time to time.

Some of my favorite works are:

Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (JRR Tolkien)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Roger Williams)

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

Current Reads: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Haruki Murakami)

Goodreads

[justjane24]

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[oldshowbiz]

but where does your forehead come from

[dreadbythedecade]

[andallshallbewell]

[chaotic-history]

Happy 372nd anniversary to the first anti-slavery laws in the not-yet-US!

[motherwytch]

Another video from yesterday of myself and others giving an adorable crow donations for the zoo. She was such a good girl 🥰

[chaotic-history]

This is (supposedly) what happened to Roger Williams after he was buried. The spot we thought he was most likely buried at, has a soil type?/residue? (idk how it works lol) that indicated a body had been buried there, but all that was found was a few bits of tooth material and a long apple tree root, seen below in the John Brown House:

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

[l0velysmut]

family: “why are you just sitting in ur room smiling at ur phone?”

me who’s been reading smut about fictional characters for the past 6 hours:

[rhode-island-empire]

Silly Game Time: I just removed an entire wall from the exterior of my local town hall (as one does) so that it can be replaced with srained glass. Now the only question is what the stained glass should depict ...

You get to suggest the subject for one-third of it, no matter how abstract or concrete, vague or defined, serious or silly, complex or simple!

I need a mural of Roger Williams oh and also a full-color topographical map of the Rhode Island Empire

[pissed-whizard]

It's always interesting to see how differently people see things lol I've lived in RI my entire life, so I'm biased, but I don't personally associate any of these things with the state? 🤷‍♂️

Now I doubt anyone is super interested in this, but I'm weird and bored, so I threw together a quick list of the "something else" things that I associate with the vibe of Rhode Island.

[In no particular order]

🍋Dels Lemonade: A local frozen lemonade chain. To be eaten without a straw or spoon, you just slurp it up.

🎩Roger Williams: Our very own colonizer! "Founder" of Rhode Island, has lots of stuff named after him, including an ok park and zoo.

🍺Narragansett beer: It's beer! it's cheap! What more do you want? fun fact, there is a dels lemonade crossover flavor.

🦟The Big Blue Bug: Our very own state kaiju! Yes it's definitely that and not just an advertisement for a pest control company on a rooftop next to the highway. They do dress him up in cute outfits for all of the holidays though.

🌭NY System wieners: Don't think too hard about this one, just get a couple wieners all the way (mustard, chili, onions) with some coffee milk and shut up about it.

🌊🔥Waterfire: A series of festivals in the summer where they light up torches that are in a river that flows through the capital city of providence.

🥤Awful Awfuls: "It's a drink!" (It's a milkshake)

🪦H.P. Lovecrafts Grave: We gotsa dead author here

🍕Pizza Strips/Party Pizza: Dough, and sauce. that's it. popular at kids parties. It's better than it sounds.

☕🥛Coffee Milk: You heard that right. No, it's not iced coffee, it's a syrup you mix with milk, like chocolate milk, just coffee flavored. It's amazing. Another fun fact, there's an Autocrat X Narragansett coffee flavored beer as well, because of course there is.

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There's a lot more I could probably add, and I'm sure I'll think of more stuff later, but this is what comes to mind initially.

Reblog for a bigger sample size.

Say in the tags what you voted for and if you live in or outside of the US