Category: Events (Page 10 of 12)

The DMA Annual Summer Picnic will be celebrated on August 15, 2013 from 5 pm to 8:30 pm at the Weed Beach picnic area. DMA will provide beer, wine, and soft drinks, as well as eating utensils, plates and cups. Although this event is free, it is a potluck dinner, so please bring one of the following foods:

Please be sure to bring suitable serving pieces for your food dish. For your comfort, bring folding chairs, tables, and insect repellent!

IMPORTANT! Absolutely no glass containers or bottles should be brought. Darien resident attendees should have a valid beach sticker of their vehicles. Non-resident attendees should check-in at the Gate House and advise the guard that they are attending the annual DMA Picnic. Reservations are not required, but are appreciated! Contact Scott Huchason, 203-322-5025 or shutchason@sbcglobal.net to reserve.

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 condiments
• Cold trilogue pasta salad
• Hamburgers, cheese burgers
• Grilled chicken
• Italian sausage and peppers
• Grilled vegetable platter
• Dessert of sliced watermelon, and assorted cookies
• Coffee, 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!

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

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?