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Coming up: What Roger Williams planted

11:56 PM Tue, Aug 04, 2009 |
By David Brussat    Email this author |   Email this entry

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rogerhead2.JPGRoger Williams planted the colony of Providence Plantations, and with a perverse sense of gratitude posterity has chopped off six of his ten fingers. Now the state that descends from the colony he planted has threatened to consider chopping off the last three words of its name - the longest name of a state in the union.

Who is Disco Roger? What did Roger Williams do to get booted from his state job? Learn more about the answers to these questions facing Rhode Island in Thursday's column.

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Roger "Fingers" Williams said:

Maybe I've seen too many mafia movies, but isn't that what a mob enforcer does to somebody, like when he doesn't keep up with his tribute money?

And then they give him a cute nickname, like Roger "Fingers" Williams.

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