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Do you want to have fun? Want to learn more
history?
Do you want to meet interesting and knowledgeable Bucklins?
(For how to get there to Pawtucket,
Rhode Island, where to stay, and such
information, click the Continue" button at the bottom of this page.)
Bucklins often meet when Rhode Island celebrates history with Gaspee Days, a two day Revolutionary War celebration in June!
 Rhode Island recognizes the shot by Joseph Bucklin as the "First
Shot in the Revolution". Be proud, have fun, and join in the events!
View Bucklin sites in Rhode Island.
Have fun with Colonial history.
The Gaspee Parade on Saturday
Each year - on
the second Saturday in June.
Get ready - make plans - Now! - for Pawtuxet, RI (Providence area)
Colonial fife & drum corps, and much more! The
Philadelphia
Mummers are the grand finale unit. Following the parade there is a
Colonial Muster, in which selected units compete in colonial music or drill.
If a Joseph Bucklin Society representative is at the
parade Bucklins can meet each other. At the Parade Reviewing Stand before the parade, you may see a Bucklin
Society Flag (see picture on the right) as a meeting point for Bucklins.
Meet us at the Flag!
At the Muster after the parade you may see a Bucklin Society Flag (see picture on the right) as a meeting
point for Bucklins. (The Muster is held at Pawtuxet Park, a couple of blocks from the
Parade Reviewing Stand. )
See
lots of photos of the Gaspee Days parades.
Bucklin family activities on Friday.
Tour various sites of
interest involving Bucklin and colonial Gaspee era history . Visit the area of
William Bucklin's original 600 acres, including Bucklin Landing and Bucklin
Island, the Newman Burial Ground and the North Burial Ground, and have lunch at
the Bucklin Arcade. YOU MUST
contact us and we will
tell give you more information.
Unless you contact us we do not know you are coming and cannot work with you to
make your trip more enjoyable.
Rhode Island is the place to celebrate the Gaspee attack, Joseph
Bucklin 5th shot in the capture of the English ship, American Colonial
History, the Revolution, and the start of the Revolutionary War.
Gaspee in the Park on Sunday.
Colonial Battle Maneuvers & Uniform Fashion
Show Revolutionary War
era uniform fashion show, with enactors explaining how the soldiers lived and
worked.
Sample Bucklin
Sightseeing Activities in past years.
Lots more information, including how to find a hotel room.
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