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Go Pats!

It’s going to be a great day

1st place for day 4 at BIRW

So far 1-2-3 with two more days to go!

Fred Benson, who the Town Beach is named for, was sent to Block Island as a foster child in 1903.
Fred lived with five generations the Milliken family on Pilot Hill and died at the age of 101.
There isn’t a job or position on the island that Fred didn’t hold.
In 1977, when he was 82, Fred won the Rhode Island lottery. He took his winnings and threw the biggest party on the island; a barbecue and clambake with ice cream for the kids.
He used the remaining money to start a scholarship fund for any Block Island School graduate who maintained a B average in college. That fund is still going and still helping island students pay for college.

Photo: courtesy of Maureen McAdams