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Happy Birthday Rhode Island! A celebration of Quahogs, Coffee Milk and Cabinets
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:00AM 
The holiday weekend was full of commemorative festivities. In addition to yesterday’s observance of Memorial Day, on Saturday, the smallest state in the union celebrated a big birthday, number 221.
It was May 29th 1790 when Little Rhody, the last remaining colony of the original 13, became a state. And how better to rejoice in Rhode Island’s coming of age than with a tribute to the region’s delightful culinary peculiarities?