Rhode Island is on TV!!!

[Grace]

He heeee, love this thread!

Just as I joke that I 'think' I need a passport to "cross the bridge" (Washington Bridge, to the other 80% of the state on the other side), folks on Aquidneck often comment similarly re the rest of us on the main land.

I have to be careful though, as I am a "transplant," only lived here 16 years. Do you know, I don't think I've ever BEEN in Jamestown, yet? As Dad's house - where I grew up - is north, I just gravitate up that way most of the time.

Where did you live before Rhode Island?

I have lived in Michigan more than half my life - but when I am asked where I am from, I always answer Rhode Island.

The Michigan license plate on my car reads 1QUAHOG.

[pomtzu]

The Michigan license plate on my car reads 1QUAHOG.

Do people in MI even know what a quahog is??

[Grace]

Do people in MI even know what a quahog is??

No, they don't. Once a guy followed me into a car wash to find out what it was - and he was in a convertible with the top down! We drove the UPS and FedEx drivers nuts when we first got them.

But there must be others from out east living here. I originally tried to get just QUAHOG, but it was taken. Then she tried QUAH0G - with a zero instead of the O. That was also gone. so it came down to 1QUAHOG - and Douglas has 2QUAHOG.

Once, when we were in Rhode Island, some lady commented that she didn't know there were quahogs in Michigan

[Karen]

And I bet no one in Michigan knows how to pronounce it, either!

[pomtzu]

And I bet no one in Michigan knows how to pronounce it, either!

And I have this funny picture in my mind, of all these PT'ers Googling quahog to find out what in the heck it is we're talking about!

[Freedom]

Ahahahaaaa, wow! Neat license plate -- hey, wonder if you could track down who has the first 2 options you tried? LOL

Been to Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth many times (fo te est of PT, those are the 3 towns on Aquidneck island). LOVE Cliff Walk!

Where did you live before Rhode Island?

Born and Raised in Mass. - Methuen, up on the Salem, NH line.

Maine is my heart home, and I lived there 5 years, in Falmouth, just north of Portland. However, I was never a "Mainer," you must be born there (some say 4 generations!) to use that label. I was considered a "Maniac!" It was my life dream to live there, and soon as I could, I got a job up there and moved.

But I couldn't cope w/ the winters, the year we had 127 inches of snow did me in: said I'd be outta there before another flake landed, and moved down here to RI.

[Freedom]

And I have this funny picture in my mind, of all these PT'ers Googling quahog to find out what in the heck it is we're talking about!

Fortunately, being from Mass and Maine, I've known and loved quahogs all my life!

[Pinot's Mom]

Love me some Quahogs!! Had to explain them to my husband many years ago....he's born and bred here on the Mason Dixon line. I also tried to explain Lobster Rolls for many years until we finally went to Maine. The first Lobster Pound I saw, we stopped, I had one, he tasted and said OK - NOW I know the difference!

Back to Rhode Island...we lived on Bayview Avenue in Portsmouth (very close to the Mount Hope Bridge), Glen Farm in Portsmouth (which is now an "equestrian facility"), Middletown for a short time, Powell Avenue & Farewell Street in Newport, Narragansett Avenue in Tiverton (off Island). That was all with my parents. On my own, I lived on Park Street (a lovely apartment I have never forgotten) and Heath Street.

Sorry, Ellie, no Cliff Walk! Most of our time, however, was spent on the boat at the piers of Newport Yacht Club - does that make you feel better?