5 THINGS: Mark Twain, Katy Perry and Wimbledon

Here are the (more than) Five Things for Saturday, July 7, 2012:

Shop until you drop, and I don’t mean that old cheesy game show! We’ve got the following yard sales, jewelry sales, flea markets and farmers’ markets on the events calendar for today:

• There will be a yard sale to support an adoption from Haiati at the Perryville Bible Church at 8 a.m.
• The weekly flea market at the General Stanton Inn in Charlestown is being held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
• There is a farmers’ market at URI’s East Farm on Kingstown Road from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
• There is a farmers’ market at Cross Mills on Old Post Road in Charlestown from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
• Silver Tides Jewelry is selling at Java Madness from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. For more info, click here.
• The Wickford Art Festival is celebrating its 50^th anniversary today and tomorrow! The festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days. For more info, click here.

“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” – Mark Twain. The Contemporary Theater Company is putting on Is He Dead?, a comedy by Mark Twain. Showings run from today to July 20. For more info, click here.

Katy Perry approved. In case you’ve missed all of the various fireworks displays the past couple days, or you just want to see more, Jamestown shoots off fireworks tonight. For more info, click here.

Has Wimbledon stoked your competition fire? There is drop-in tennis today at the Broad Rock tennis courts, which are behind the middle school. The cost is just $3, and the program runs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. For more info, click here.

Well, that’s all well and good, except for the part where they couldn’t un-burn her… On this day in 1456, Joan of Arc was acquitted of heresy in a retrial.

Holy smokes, you’re 32 now??? Happy birthday to Michelle Kwan! You seem to be pretty awesome to me, plus, you once voiced yourself on Family Guy, which always earns props from me.

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