Bird03
Oct 30, 2006, 04:34 PM
This will be our last chance to get together in 2006.
Host Hotel:
Hampton Inn Sturbridge
328 Main Street
Sturbridge, Massachusetts 01566
508-347-6466
The lowest current rates for Saturday night (11/11) are:
AARP.....$89.10 + tax
AAA.....$94.50 + tax
Non-association rate......$99.00 + tax
Saturday Itinerary:
Plan to arrive at the Hampton Hotel at 11AM on Saturday (11/11)
Events for that afternoon and evening will include:
Candlepin Bowling, Shopping, Visit to a small Micro-Brewery, and then dinner at the Castle Restaurant.
Here's the menu for the Castle Restaurant:
www.castlerestaurant.com (http://www.castlerestaurant.com/camelot_menu.htm)
Sunday Itinerary:
Check out of Hampton Inn at 11 AM and drive over to Old Sturbridge Village to spend the day there.
Here's some info on Sturbridge Village:
A trip to Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, is a journey through time to a rural New England town of the 1830s. Visitors are invited into more than 40 original buildings, each carefully researched, restored, and brought to the museum site from towns throughout New England. These include homes, meetinghouses, a district school, country store, bank, law office, printing office, carding mill, sawmill, gristmill, pottery, blacksmith shop, shoe shop, and cooper shop.
Authentically costumed staff, called history interpreters, carry out the daily activities of an early 19th-century community. Here you may wander country roads and visit with a farmer plowing fields, listen to the blacksmith's rhythmic hammering, or smell the aroma of bread baking in a fireplace oven. With four unique seasons and more than 200 acres to explore, there is always something new to see at Old Sturbridge Village.
The period portrayed by Old Sturbridge Village, 1790-1840, is of major significance because it was a time in which the everyday lives of New Englanders were transformed by the rise of commerce and manufacturing, improvements in agriculture an transportation, the pulls of emigration and urbanization, and the tides of educational, political, aesthetic, and social change.
The Village's portrayal of the past is grounded in award-winning historical research that includes archaeology, scientific analysis of 19th-century objects and buildings, and painstaking study of letters, diaries, account books, and other documents.
You can read more info at:
www.osv.org (http://www.osv.org/)
After that, it's over to the Publick House (a Country Inn in Sturbridge) for an early dinner so you can leave for home by 6 PM.
Here's the menu for the Publick House:
www.publickhouse.com/ (http://www.publickhouse.com/Menu_menu.htm)
So far booked to stay over Saturday night (11/11) at the Hampton Inn:
Dino & Susan
Bruce & Kirsten
Chuck
Doug & Brenda
Wes
John & Deb
Roger & Terry
Who else is planning on staying over?
Anyone planning on meeting us for just the day? (Sat or Sun)
Let me know so I can firm up the dinner reservations.
Wes
Host Hotel:
Hampton Inn Sturbridge
328 Main Street
Sturbridge, Massachusetts 01566
508-347-6466
The lowest current rates for Saturday night (11/11) are:
AARP.....$89.10 + tax
AAA.....$94.50 + tax
Non-association rate......$99.00 + tax
Saturday Itinerary:
Plan to arrive at the Hampton Hotel at 11AM on Saturday (11/11)
Events for that afternoon and evening will include:
Candlepin Bowling, Shopping, Visit to a small Micro-Brewery, and then dinner at the Castle Restaurant.
Here's the menu for the Castle Restaurant:
www.castlerestaurant.com (http://www.castlerestaurant.com/camelot_menu.htm)
Sunday Itinerary:
Check out of Hampton Inn at 11 AM and drive over to Old Sturbridge Village to spend the day there.
Here's some info on Sturbridge Village:
A trip to Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, is a journey through time to a rural New England town of the 1830s. Visitors are invited into more than 40 original buildings, each carefully researched, restored, and brought to the museum site from towns throughout New England. These include homes, meetinghouses, a district school, country store, bank, law office, printing office, carding mill, sawmill, gristmill, pottery, blacksmith shop, shoe shop, and cooper shop.
Authentically costumed staff, called history interpreters, carry out the daily activities of an early 19th-century community. Here you may wander country roads and visit with a farmer plowing fields, listen to the blacksmith's rhythmic hammering, or smell the aroma of bread baking in a fireplace oven. With four unique seasons and more than 200 acres to explore, there is always something new to see at Old Sturbridge Village.
The period portrayed by Old Sturbridge Village, 1790-1840, is of major significance because it was a time in which the everyday lives of New Englanders were transformed by the rise of commerce and manufacturing, improvements in agriculture an transportation, the pulls of emigration and urbanization, and the tides of educational, political, aesthetic, and social change.
The Village's portrayal of the past is grounded in award-winning historical research that includes archaeology, scientific analysis of 19th-century objects and buildings, and painstaking study of letters, diaries, account books, and other documents.
You can read more info at:
www.osv.org (http://www.osv.org/)
After that, it's over to the Publick House (a Country Inn in Sturbridge) for an early dinner so you can leave for home by 6 PM.
Here's the menu for the Publick House:
www.publickhouse.com/ (http://www.publickhouse.com/Menu_menu.htm)
So far booked to stay over Saturday night (11/11) at the Hampton Inn:
Dino & Susan
Bruce & Kirsten
Chuck
Doug & Brenda
Wes
John & Deb
Roger & Terry
Who else is planning on staying over?
Anyone planning on meeting us for just the day? (Sat or Sun)
Let me know so I can firm up the dinner reservations.
Wes