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courts. Take a sunset cruise aboard Learn more in Pawtucket, where Nearby, have lunch and taste wines
a history stretching back to a former America’s Cup winning the highlight is Slater Mill, with its at the 50-acre Sakonnet Vineyards.
Colonial times, America’s oldest yacht. Spend a summer evening textile machinery and costumed If you like boats, head for pretty
pub, romantic B&Bs and fi ne listening to some of the world’s interpreters. In the Wilkinson Mill, Bristol and the Herreshoff Marine
restaurants: Newport deserves its fi nest jazz or folk artists. Stroll along you can feel the power of a 16,000- Museum, with its tales of America’s
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