Thanks to Frank Johnson for these photos!
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Category: Activities (Page 47 of 50)
Activities are gatherings that occur on a regular schedule, usually weekly, to enjoy a specific pastime.
Thanks to Bob Smith for these photos!
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This Club was formed to provide the members a way to learn more about genealogy.
Club Members:
Frank Johnson – Activity Leader
Dave Mordy – Activity Leader
Bill Close
Ed Mulock
Pete Kenyon
David Kniffin
Sandy MacDonald
David Mace
Ed Mulock
Tom Reifenheiser
For more information or questions contact one of the following activity leaders:
Frank Johnson at Tel. 203-323-2475 or email at fmj113@sbcglobal.net
Dave Mordy at Tel. 203-966-2276 or email at DMordy2@yahoo.com
The Annual Summer Barbecue and Jazz Festival will be held on Sunday, June 23rd, from 5pm – 9pm at the Country Club of Darien.
The cash bar will opens at 5pm.
Plan on a lively mix of jazz concert and dancing. The music will be provided by the Joe Holmes Dixieland Band, joined at dinner time by jazz singer Nicole Pasternack.
Dinner will be served outside (weather permitting); there will also be some seating indoors.
Our Menu is
Mixed green salad with condimentsCold trilogue pasta saladHamburgers, cheese burgersGrilled chickenItalian sausage and peppersGrilled vegetable platterDessert of sliced watermelon, and assorted cookiesCoffee, tea, iced tea
Wine will be served with the meal.
You can sign up at any Wednesday DMA meeting prior to the event.
If you have any questions, please contact
Bill Winship at 203-655-3530 / williamwinship3@aol.com , or
Peter Hallock at 203-202-9349 /peterbhallock@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Songsters’ performance will mark the end of the 2012/2013 year for the DMA. They are a bunch of stout hearted senior men who enjoy performing a selection of Barbershop Harmony, Broadway, and Spiritual songs.
Concert starts at 11 am.
We want to have a big turnout of DMA members this year.
Be at the Goodwives Shopping Center by 9:30 AM.
(Remember, no cars are allowed to park there except for those that are in the parade).
The parade route is down the Post Road for 1.25 miles. We want to have marchers but if you are unable to walk (march) we will have cars for those who need a ride. The parade starts at 10 AM and will be over by 11 AM.
Spend an hour honoring those who served and gave their lives and also have a good time with fellow members of the DMA.
RIDE THE TROLLEY!
Journey through the Connecticut waterside in an antique suburban trolley. See the old-time equipment used when these rides cost only a nickel.
The Connecticut Trolley Museum has over 70 pieces of rail equipment dating back to 1869. During your visit, you can see historic passenger and freight street “trolley” cars, interurban cars, elevated railway cars, passenger and freight railroad cars, service cars, locomotives, and a variety of other equipment from railways around Connecticut. You will also find examples from Brooklyn, Boston, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Springfield, Lynchburg, Montreal, and even Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
We’ll LUNCHEON at The Old Lyme Inn where we’ll dine at a quaint but newly renovated New England Inn. Our Menu includes a choice of salmon, chicken or Cobb salad.
Then we’ll tour the Florence Griswold Museum, seeing the world class collections of renowned American impressionists.
We’ll visit the Griswold Home, centerpiece of the LymeArt Colony in the early 1900’s, and wander the gardens and waterfront where the artist-boarders painted “en plein air”.
Boarding our Deluxe Coach: DCA parking lot 8:15AM Departure:8:30 sharp
Contact: Mel Orr 203.655.1605 email morr605560@aol.com
$70. per person
[From Amazon.com]
The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with Lost Memory of Skin, a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.
Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership, the Kid remaining wary of the Professor’s motives even as he accepts the counsel and financial assistance of the older man.
When the camp beneath the causeway is raided by the police, and later, when a hurricane all but destroys the settlement, the Professor tries to help the Kid in practical matters while trying to teach his young charge new ways of looking at, and understanding, what he has done. But when the Professor’s past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men’s relationship shifts.
Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.
Long one of our most acute and insightful novelists, Russell Banks often examines the indistinct boundaries between our intentions and actions. A mature and masterful work of contemporary fiction from one of our most accomplished storytellers, Lost Memory of Skin unfolds in language both powerful and beautifully lyrical, show-casing Banks at his most compelling, his reckless sense of humor and intense empathy at full bore.
The perfect convergence of writer and subject, Lost Memory of Skin probes the zeitgeist of a troubled society where zero tolerance has erased any hope of subtlety and compassion—a society where isolating the offender has perhaps created a new kind of victim.
The National Park Service opened the renovated Edison Laboratory Complex at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, NJ in the fall of 2009. The renovation was a complex project to preserve the historic buildings and the artifact and archival collections at the Laboratory Complex and Glenmont Estate. The original historic furnishings and documents were beginning to deteriorate and were at risk of loss or damage from fire because of old, outdated alarm and sprinkler systems. The vast majority of the artifact collection was inaccessible to visitors and researchers while stored on the upper floors of the historic main laboratory.
The original furnishings have been moved back into many rooms and the unique museum collections are now available to see, hear, and experience. Installation of a new elevator and stair tower adjacent to the main laboratory building allows new public access to the upper floors of the laboratory that now feature new exhibits. The Edison home at the Glenmont Estate has also been renovated. The new Thomas Edison experience offers visitors self-guided audio tours, cell phone tours, films, grounds walks, school workshops and traditional guided programs.
Glenmont is located in Llewellyn Park, West Orange, the first romantically designed, planned residential community in the United States. A Queen Anne style mansion with 29 rooms, Glenmont was designed by the architect Henry Hudson Holly. Edison purchased the Glenmont estate with 13.5 acres including house, barn, greenhouse, and furnishings in January of 1886 for $125,000, half its estimated value.
Due to the limited number of people who have signed-up for the trip thus far we cannot afford to have lunch at Highlawn Pavilion. We can make the trip break -even at the current price and number of sign-ups by substituting a box lunch with wine at the same price. If we get more sign-ups there will be a profit which we plan to distribute back to the participants.
This will be an interesting trip and we encourage you to invite family and friends.Break-even cost is $74 per person with some refund if more people sign-up.
We plan on boarding at 7:45AM and departing by 8AM from the DCA parking lot.
We expect to arrive back before 5PM
On Saturday April 27th, members of the Senior Men’s Association will help clean up the Darien train station parking lot, Mechanic Street, and the berm on the New Haven side of the tracks, as part of the Darien town-wide clean-up project.
Please come to participate as part of SMA’s community service. It usually only takes about 2 hours for us to complete our part of the project.
We will meet in the CVS parking Lot by the UCBC bagel shop between 8 and 9 am. Come there to pick up supplies, and have a free bagel, coffee, tea and/or juice.
The Beautification Commission and Chamber of Commerce will supply the garbage bags, pick-up sticks, and work gloves.
Good cause, good fellowship, and free bagels! What could be better?
Thanks to Bob Smith for these photos!
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Thanks to Frank Johnson for these photos!
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