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Do you know where Rhode Island’s Gingerbread and Pancake Islands are?
The islands are often seen but few pay attention to their existence and infamous and racist Rhode Island writer H.P. Lovecraft linked them to pirate treasure.
“I used to row considerably on the Seekonk … Often I would land on one or both of the Twin Islands for islands (associated with remote secrets, pirate treasure, and all that) always fascinated me.” Lovecraft letter to Rimel, April 1934.
Gingerbread and Pancake Islands are mere spits of land just to the north of the Washington Bridge on I-195, in the Seekonk River between Providence and East Providence.