NEWSLETTER NUMBER TWO, September, 2007

 

SEP 86 Reunion 2008

HISTORIC BOSTON AND COLORS OF NEW ENGLAND

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

We want to bring you up to date on our plans for reunion 2008.

 

There will be two locations for our trip together, BOSTON, at the WESTIN COPLEY PLACE Hotel, and NEW HAMPSHIRE, at the MOUNT WASHINGTON Hotel.

 

The WESTIN Hotel, (10 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02116, (617)262-9600) is a very nice hotel situated in the Back Bay heart of Boston, close to shopping, parks, museums, restaurants, etc. Arrival will be Friday, September 26^th, 2008. In recent years, Boston has developed a reputation for excellent restaurants.  Diane Sena has sampled a few of them and has chosen one or two for our eating pleasure.  Because of our hotel’s location, we hope to get to most of our in-town destinations by foot.

 

Here is our (tentative) day-to-day agenda.  Please note that we may make minor or major changes to each day’s agenda, as we get closer to the reunion, but this represents our general plan.  As we all know, the best part of the reunion is the chance to get together and renew old friendships.  Our goal is to showcase Boston and New England, and the Fall colors.

                              

Friday, Sep 26:

Arrive at Hotel at your convenience (check in time 3PM or later).

Reception, light meal buffet and informal get together at the hotel, 7:30PM.

We will review our reunion plans in more detail that evening.

 

Saturday, Sep 27

Breakfast at Hotel.  Begin tour of Boston at 10AM via unique bus. (we will disembark from time to time to walk around certain areas with our guide).  1PM lunch at an Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End. 2:30PM return to the Public Garden: the afternoon will be free for a walk back to the hotel or personal sightseeing and shopping.    7PM, assemble in the lobby and walk to Legal Sea Food for a New England Sea Food dinner.  Walk back to the hotel at your leisure.

 

Sunday, Sep 28

Breakfast at Hotel. 9:30 load bus for tour of Lexington and Concord.  We will visit Lexington Common, and the Old North Bridge in Concord, scenes of the “shot heard round the world”. We will walk from the Concord Bridge for lunch at the Colonial Inn, Concord Center.  After lunch we will head to Walden Pond, site of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin. Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott and Hawthorne were world famous authors who comprised a literary brilliance for the town of Concord in the 1800s; we will see some of the houses they lived in. Return to Hotel around 4PM.  Assemble in the lobby for dinner at 7PM.  We will walk to the South End of Boston for our meal at Two Brother’s Restaurant).  Walk back to the Hotel at your leisure.

 

Monday, Sep 29

Breakfast at Hotel. 10AM meet in lobby for a guided tour of the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum (a unique private museum with an extraordinary collection housed in a replica renaissance Italian Villa).  Lunch at the Museum.  At 1:30 a bus will take us to a guided tour of the JFK Library and Museum at South Boston.    At 7PM we will Board the Spirit of Boston for a Harbor Cruise and dinner, returning to the Hotel around 9:30PM.

 

Tuesday, Sep 30

Breakfast at Hotel.  Today we embark for New Hampshire.  Be checked out and assemble with your luggage at 9AM, when we will board our bus.  We will arrive at Bretton Woods, check in and have lunch. That afternoon we will have a tour of the grounds, have a reception at our Inn at 6PM, and have dinner in the Mount Washington Hotel in the main dining room.  The Hotel is a short walk from our Inn.

 

The main reason for getting to New Hampshire is the scenery, of course, and hopefully the area will be ablaze with autumn colors for our arrival.  Like this:

 

We will be staying at the Bretton Arms, a typical New England Inn, shown below:

 

 

This Inn is located on the grounds of the Mount Washington Hotel, and we will occupy most of the rooms. We will have our receptions and breakfasts there, and dinners at the main hotel. 

 

 

This, for example, is the view of Mount Washington from the hotel grounds.

 

The main hotel is a grand old lady, built in 1904, at a time when 50 or so trains a day would bring well-to-do people up to take in the salubrious airs of the mountains.  The main Hotel, the Mount Washington, is actually in great shape, has been upgraded over the years, and is even now undergoing major improvements, without losing the original style of the place.

The hotel’s main attraction, then and now, is the mountain scenery. 

 

There is a golf course on the extensive grounds.  By the time we arrive there will be 27 holes available. 

 

There are also miles of trails, ski lifts, horseback and carriage rides for the guests.

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday,Oct 1

Breakfast at the Inn.  Today we have a choice of activities: A hike led by a member of the local mountain club; a round of golf; a chairlift ride to the top of the hotel’s ski mountain for the views and a walk back to the hotel; or, just stay at the hotel and enjoy the view and do nothing. We will get together at 4PM for a short lecture on the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 (which set the monetary policy post WWII). Reception at our Inn at 7PM followed by a clambake (clams, lobster, corn etc.) at the main hotel. Back to the Inn at your leisure.

 

Thursday, Oct 2

Breakfast at the Inn and check out.  Our Bus will leave at 10AM, and will take a drive through the Kancamagus Highway, a scenic route.  We will stop a couple of times for photo opportunities.  We will have our farewell lunch in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on our way back to Boston.  For those unable to leave from Boston that evening, we will arrange a group rate for hotel rooms you can reserve either in the City, should you decide to stay in Boston for awhile, or near Logan Airport for next day departures.