Fourth of July in Miami and Rhode Island

Miami, Florida is a favorite tourist destination with pleasant mild weather throughout the year. This ensures an outdoor lifestyle and plenty of activities. There are several annual events in Miami and there is something to entertain everyone. Events offer a mixture of fun and culture and make a statement that Miami is much more than sunshine and beaches.

Late February is the month for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. This takes place at different locations in the South Beach area. The event is in a good cause as money is raised for the Florida International University hospitality program. Celebrity chefs present cooking demonstrations and there are food and wine tasting sessions with local cooks.

March is a busy month for popular events in Miami, including the St. Patrick's Day celebrations, a party with Irish food and music at various Irish pubs. The Winter Music Conference in South Beach attracts musicians and DJs involved with electronic and dance music. Parties are held in local parks and clubs and at Lummus Beach. There is also a serious side to the festivities during seminars where people can gain knowledge on music as a business. Also in March, the Miami International Film Festival is a ten-day showcase of films of different genres from across the world and from local filmmakers. The event is held in various venues across the city.

Independence Day is another highlight on the calendar of Miami events. Each 4th of July brings fireworks and there is live music in Bayfront Park. Events in Miami are an opportunity to celebrate different cultures, bringing people together. A good example is the International Caribbean Music Festival, held in October in Bicentennial Park. This is a feast of music, performed by musicians from all across the Caribbean.

Hopefully, you see this in time for this year’s Fourth of July plans if you have none, but if not, you can keep it in mind for next year. Evidently, Bristol, Rhode Island has the oldest continuous Independence Day celebration and parade events in the country—starting its affair in 1785. It might not be the oldest, as one would think Pennsylvania areas, for example, have older, uninterrupted annual celebrations, but for sure, Bristol, Rhode Island participates in honoring the declaration of independence with rigorous efforts and effects.

Other so-called trivia, interesting facts about Bristol, Rhode Island are equally worth checking out, including historical data and details. For instance, it was in the 1880s, a hundred years later, that the first torpedo boat was launched, so to speak. Dubbed “Lightning”, the first craft was made seaworthy in 1876 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island; but according to one source, the boat crew had to “hold the charge on the end of a long pole and poke it at the target.” So it was not for another eleven years that a self-propelled torpedo would work. That boat was Stiletto.

The Herreshoff Manufacturing Company and its township, Bristol, Rhode Island, also boast another sort of sea-going history: in a period of four decades of sailing competitions, eight of the yachts built at Herreshoff took the America's Cup in sailing. And the township is as proud of its survivor history as it is its sailing finesse in those early years: not only was Bristol where the first battle of King Philip’s war of 1675 was waged, but it was a site that incurred the blows and subsequent hardships of attack by the British in the Revolution.

The sites of Bristol, Rhode Island include such historical war memories—at the tourist attraction known as King Philip’s chair, for instance—and still today reveal the traditions, architecture, and lifestyles of everyone and everything from the Puritans to the old colonial beauties, built in the 1700s and early 1800s and today still standing and housing the “Bristolians”, the relatively small community of folks numbering about 22,000, the people of Bristol, Rhode Island, who are the first to call their home “America’s most patriotic town. If you visit, especially on the fourth of July, when they all get together to enjoy their earlier fundraising efforts (to get $200,000 to put on the nation’s oldest Independence Day celebration)…you might just concede that they have earned the right to say so.

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