Providence pimping
Federal Hill in Providence is a historic Italian neighborhood with great restaurants and some interesting shops. You might want to make reservations ahead of time for some of the restaurants: link
Here is a list of restaurants in the College Hill area of Providence (near Brown University) where there are also some very cool stores: link
Roger Williams Zoo: link
Newport has historic homes that you can visit, great restaurants, and is a fun place to just walk around on a good weather day: link
You can see pictures of the historic homes in Newport here: link
This is the mall right in downtown. There is great shopping (including Lush!), lots of popular restaurants, a movie theater, a Dave and Busters, and if anyone wants to do a manicure day here, I’d be happy to make the appointments: link
The Rhode Island School of Design has a very nice museum and gift shop: link
There is a list here of other galleries people might be interested in going to in the area: link
Here is a general website for the city of Providence: link
Links for transportation to and from the city can be found here: link
Waterfire is an interesting thing to do in Providence in the evening. They don't have their summer schedule up yet, but more information can be found here: link
Providence to Boston is about an hour by car.
Providence to Newport is about 45 minutes by car, and the Narragansett beach area is about 15 minutes closer.
Providence to Worcester is about 45 minutes by car.
If anyone wants to do a day trip to any of these places, we can probably arrange a carpool with localistas including TCG and I.
I’d be happy to pick up people from the TF Green Providence Airport (Which is technically in Warwick) if I can and I get some advanced notice.
If there is anything else that people are interested in and want to know about, just ask me.
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This is your last chance to vote for F2F 2010! Click here to vote.
Poll will be open for three days until 3/21, Sunday. We only have 26 respondents so far, which concerns me since we had 42 on the previous survey.
Side note: I'm also concerned that adding a third date to the mix may have split the vote. June 26-27 is leading substantially at the moment (the only non-NYC weekend), but the two July dates (if added together) equal the exact same number. I didn't add a question about how many people couldn't attend, but I'm concerned about this situation. Anyone who would like to hash this out, please join us in conversation in F2F.
sj - do you know if Al Forno is still in business, and is it's reputation still as good as it used to be? At least, was it before you moved away?
I've just heard about it for years, but never managed to get there.
I haven't voted on a date, because I can make any of the dates and don't have a strong preference for any of the places, and I don't want to maybe push the vote onto a date that someone can't make it when it doesn't matter to me. But I will be coming to the F2F, wherever/whenever it is.
I'm with Zen. I'm not voting because I can make all three of the dates, so don't want to skew the voting for someone who has a preference.
Huh. Now I'm questioning my survey design. Maybe I should have added a "can't make XX" and a "can make all" category.
Probably the simplest way to get the most information would be "What is your first choice?" "What is your second choice?" and "What is your third choice?" questions. (Or, to allow lots of data fun, have all six possible orders to choose from.)
Frank, Al Forno's is still in business. I haven't been there in a while, but I heard it is still excellent. They don't take reservations, so the wait can be long, but they might make an exception for a larger group. I think I heard the owners have a new restaurant as well.
