5 Things: Contra Dance, Exploring and the Kettlebell

Weather: Wednesday will start out a rainy one, the sun will start to poke through later in the day, according to the National Weather Service.

1. Get your groove on tonight and shake it to the Contra Dance tonight that Sandywoods Farm Arts and Agricultural Community on Muse Way in Tiverton. Celebrate hump day by dancing the night away from 7 - 10 p.m. Admission costs $6.

2. The Nature Conservancy in Rhode Island invites you to take an after-school break at the beach and explore the marsh and salt pond! The water is still warm, and animals are still active, this is a great time to revisit your favorite summer spot! Use nets and binoculars to observe the plants and animals that live in and around Quicksand Pond. 

Meet us at the far end of South Shore Beach parking lot at 4 p.m., we will walk to the pond as a group.

3. Experience Kettlebell Group Training today at ABC Studio at Four Corners Fitness.  The Russian kettlebell is well known for setting fat on fire, sculpting, toning, strengthening and increasing flexibility in the body.

Experience the power of this incredible tool Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 - 9 a.m.

4. Chow down at the senior community luncheon today at 11:30 a.m. at the Little Compton Community Center, 34 Commons.

5. On this day in 1881, Eighty days after a failed office seeker shot him in Washington, D.C., President James A. Garfield dies of complications from his wounds.

Born in a log cabin in Ohio, Garfield was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives while serving as a Union colonel in the Civil War. He later became a U.S. senator and in 1880 was unexpectedly nominated as the presidential candidate of the Republican Party. Successfully appealing to his humble roots, he was elected the 20th U.S. president over his Democratic opponent, General Winfield Scott Hancock.