Newport's is (roughly) "Love conquers all" in Latin.
Something I learned yesterday at a BBQ with friends: the motto of Fall River, Mass. is "We'll Try." Hard to top that.pic.twitter.com/dC02dqaa9J
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Apparently that was RI's pre-Hope motto:https://twitter.com/SamGHoward/status/1260663583568015360 …
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“We’ll try…our former mayor on 24 counts of fraud and extortion.”
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yes! it's a reference to a massive fire from 1843 that destroyed a bunch of downtown. But no one knows that anymore so it just comes off silly
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You mean just comes off...awesome?
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It's hard to know if that's meant to be optimistic and persevering or just gloomy. The same goes for Providence's 'What cheer?' Though it always looks gloomy on my trash can.pic.twitter.com/F7ht3Hn7rF
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That’s basically what I want on my epitaph, (She tried.) so I think it’s pretty great.
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Not their motto, but same vibe. (CF is special though)pic.twitter.com/ugrEVHfrVu
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It was. In 1995, it was changed to Scholarship City. The "We'll Try" refers to a sign citizens put up the day after the great fire.
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I don’t know, it’s hard to beat a rather non-sensical question like “what cheer?”
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