NEWSLETTER NUMBER ONE, October, 2006
SEP 86 Reunion 2008
HISTORIC BOSTON AND COLORS OF NEW ENGLAND
Save these dates: September 26-October 4 2008
We will spend four days and 5 nights in Boston followed by 3days and 4 nights in New Hampshire/Maine.
Boston is a great city to walk around, sightsee and shop, especially in the bright fall air. It also has a great harbor, recently opened up to the city as a result of the “big dig”, a massive construction program to bury an elevated highway which blocked the harbor. Our first class hotel will be downtown, close to the Public garden and Common, Beacon Hill and the boutiques of Newbury Street in Back Bay. We will trace Boston’s history,
(Boston is considered to be the most European of America’s cities), visit Concord, the home of Emerson and Thoreau, spend some time in Cambridge visiting Harvard and listening to a couple of lectures. We’ll visit the Kennedy Library and one of Boston’s unique art museums, and tour Boston harbor. We will enjoy some great food (including a traditional New England Clambake, with, of course, Lobster!). There will be plenty of occasions to chat and renew old friendships. There will be no written exams!
On the fifth day we will board a bus for the nearby White Mountains and our resort hotel there. We will have a chance to experience the intensity of fall colors by walks in the nearby area, and by a trip via cog railway to the top of Mount Washington. There will be opportunities for all you photographers to capture the scenery, and for all of us to experience it. We also will have some excellent meals there. We’ll come back to the city via one of the most scenic highways in the US, and stop for lunch in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, an historic city in its own right.
The optional post program will be a trip to Nantucket Island. We will board the ferry to Nantucket from Hyannisport, MA on Cape Cod, an enjoyable voyage in itself, and land in Nantucket town, a place that whaling built in the 1840s. We can walk to our hotel from the ferry, and then walk to our restaurant from the hotel. The next day there will be time to explore the old city on your own before we have lunch and then have a guided tour of the rest of the island. We expect to have dinner at the ‘head of the harbor” and be ferried back to Nantucket town by boat. The next day will be a leisurely departure on the ferry back to Hyannisport and then back to Boston.
If there is interest, we will arrange a two-day optional pre-program of golf in the Boston area before the main program.
Obviously, some of the details can not be confirmed at this time, but we have been in discussion with a highly regarded group travel coordinator in Boston, and we expect to nail down some of the plans in the next few months. We will certainly keep you informed.
Financial details are contained in an email
On a general note, we expect to leave ample free time for you to explore on your own, and hope to pay special attention to luggage logistics so that “lugging” it around is not so much a burden.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!
Regards,
The 2008 committee.