Beginning
Welcome to Rhode Island, said the sign. It was already one o’clock in the afternoon and we still had to cross the entire state to get to Providence by nightfall. No matter, we were able to cover the distance in 40 minutes flat since the speed limit on Interstate 95 had just been raised to 65. The entire distance was only 44 miles. So, at about twenty minutes till two, we pulled up to The First Baptist Church in America with its 185-foot steeple towering above the city of Providence. We were there to see the old church which had its beginning in 1638 in the living room of Roger Williams