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March 7
Seals, Birds, and the History of Prudence Island, Bristol
33rd Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, Pawtucket
Winter Birding Cruise on Narragansett Bay, Newport
Savoring Rhode Island: The Zeppole Crawl, Providence
March 7-8
Opening Weekend at A&W Root Beer, Greenville, Smithfield
March 9
Aboard the Fabre Line to Providence, Cumberland
March 12
Newport Gallery Night, Newport
March 14
59th Annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade, Newport
March 15
Ranger Days: Francophonie in Rhode Island: Cine-Quebec Film Festival, Woonsocket
March 17
Seal Watch on Prudence Island, Bristol
More events
March 6th in Rhode Island history
1755
Rhode Island raises six hundred men for the Crown Point Expedition against French forces in New York.
1759
Johnston (named in honor of Augustus Johnston, Esquire, the attorney-general of Rhode Island) is taken from Providence and incorporated as a town.
1781
George Washington meets with Rochambeau and Lafayette in Newport to plan the final campaign against the British.
1967
Nelson Ackerman Eddy, a singer ("Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life") and actor who starred opposite Jeanette McDonald in a successful series of MGM operettas (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie) in the 1930s, dies of a stroke in Miami, Florida.
1983
John A. Notte, Jr., the 49th governor of Rhode Island, dies at the age of 73. He was governor from 1961 to 1963, lieutenant governor from 1959 to 1961, and secretary of state from 1957 to 1959.
