Rhode Island is a state full of “firsts.” Allow us to name just a few: ⁠ Anne Hutchinson was the first woman to establish a town in the U.S.—Portsmouth, in 1640. Ann Smith Franklin, of the Newport Mercury, became the first female newspaper editor in America on August 22, 1762. Rhode Island was the first colony in America to declare independence on May 4, 1776, a full two months before the United States Declaration of Independence. ⁠ ⁠ It’s not easy, doing something first. It took years of planni

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