Top Picks for Your Summer Weekend

Saturday, September 04, 2010

WEEKEND by GoLocalProv's Features Team

It's Labor Day weekend, friends, and the skies have cleared and made way for a post-hurricane-threat playground. You've still got three whole days to enjoy everything the Ocean State has to offer.

Friday

Food Top Pick
Public Clambake, Middletown
Bid farewell to summer with the ultimate event: a clambake. Kempenaar's Clambake Club is popping up all the old-fashioned fun at their home base in Middletown, and for your ticket you'll get a feast of clam chowder, steamed clams, mussels, a whole lobster, chourico, and more. There's a cash bar plus entertainment. $45 for lobster clambake, children under 12 $23. Advance purchase required, so call 847-1441 or visit the Web site for more.

Friday-Sunday

Music Top Pick
13th Annual Rhythm and Roots Festival, Charlestown
This is the stomping event of the season, featuring blues, New Orleans R&B, Cajun, Zydeco, and Swing music. With two huge dance floors, four music stages, dance lessons, food vendors, stuff for kids and evening dances, it's a veritable gumbo of fun. Ninigret Park, 4813 Old Post Rd, 888-855-6940. For hours, schedules, directions, and camping potential, go to the Web site, here.

Saturday - Monday

Culture Top Pick
Newport Waterfront Irish Festival
It doesn't get more Irish on this side of the Atlantic. There's dancing, music featuring The Elders, Eileen Ivers, The Screaming Orphans, plus Guinness on tap. Tickets are $20 per day ($17 in advance) or $35 for a weekend pass. Newport Yachting Center. For more information and specifics, check the event's Web site, here.

Sunday

Garden Top Pick
Blithewold Hosts an Intimate Garden Tour, Narragansett
Get an inside look at Narragansett's "Summer Home," a seaside project of Louis Raymond that is a study in all that's green and glorious from June-November, including high-summer perennials and summer-interest shrubs and trees.

This is an intimate, not-to-miss gardener's treat. 2-4pm, address and directions provided upon registration. $35, Blithewold members $30. Call 253-2707 or visit Blithewold's Web site for more information.

Monday

Family Top Pick
12th Annual Labor Day Open House, Woonsocket
On a day celebrating work in America, take the whole family for free to RI's fantastic Museum of Work and Culture and celebrate a few things: the opening of a new exhibit, "Going to Work: 20th Century Settlers in the Blackstone Valley," as well as the birthday of Rhode Island's greatest baseball player, Napolean Lajoie, as well. The day is sponsored by the Rhode Island Historical Society. 9:30am-4pm, 42 South Main St, Woonsocket. Call 769-9675, or check the RIHS Web site for more information.

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