Thursday November 9th we will be check the lights on the holiday wreaths. We will be meet at 9 AM behind the town hall. Last year we replaced about 195 lights and hope to pass 200 this year. The whole project takes about an hour and a half (the more people who show up the faster the work).

We will have a signup sheet at the Wednesday meetings but all are welcome to attend. They even provide free coffee and donuts.

Good community project and a good time.

Any questions see Jack Fitzgibbons at jpfitz@earthlink.net

We fixed the holiday lights for Darien,
Wreaths from boxes we were a carry’en.
Replacing bulbs, fixing bows, blowing fuses
We did our job with no excuses.

So remember well the seven elves of DMA,
Working in the cold that November day,
We ask no praise, we did our task
But next year we might bring a flask!

Join us for a gourmet Sunset Picnic at Weed Beach on Thursday, June 15, 2017,5:00-8:30.

No food to bring just come and enjoy. Family and friends are welcome.

Just $35 per person – A great value which includes Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks, Scrumptious Appetizers, Chicken, Salmon, Beef and many sides plus great desserts.

Our picnic last year was a huge success and we expect this year to be even better!

Catering provided by Valvala’s Deli & Catering

Appetizers : Sliders, Chips with Salsa and Guacamole, Shrimp,  Salad,  Cheese & Crackers

Dinner: Salmon, Chicken, Beef

Dessert: Sheet cake, Cookies. Fruit

PLUS! Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks and Water

Socialize with your friends and make some new ones while eating gourmet food and enjoying music by a talented one-man band, Rob Smith.

RAIN DATE is June 16, 2017

Any questions contact Alex Garnett

Pictures: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNXG1u21fuHy8xSPSbQbTZIXE1O2W4IQZ8x44PdOb6gYoXFkUDDMl8tRhh93lVPSQ?key=eHVobHcyNEl6YWU2S1pYRFJ6eUZ1TmMybmxnalpR

Ellis Island National Park
Lunch on site

Board bus 7:15 a.m. at DCA

Bring a picnic basket or purchase lunch at the Ellis Island cafeteria.

To sign up, contact:
Chris Snyder at (203) 858-7232
or email csnydereco@gmail.com.

Here is a video about Ellis Island:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X4CypTaOQs

Pictures:

Westchester Broadway Theater
Lunch and Performance

Join us for a gourmet Sunset Picnic at Weed Beach on June 7, 2016.

No food to bring just come and enjoy. Family and friends are welcome.

• Starting with Carolyn’s Fabulous Appetizers
• Delicious Sliders
• Roasted Salmon
• Grilled Marinated Flank Steak
• Rotisserie Chicken
• Side Dishes
• Desserts
• PLUS! Wine, Beer, Soft Drinks and Water

Our picnic last year was a huge success and we expect this year to be even better!

Socialize with your friends and make some new ones while eating gourmet food and enjoying music by a talented one-man band.

Save June 7 for our “Weed Beach Sunset Picnic”

RAIN DATE is June 8, 2016

Enjoy an exciting afternoon watching all the horses racing on the track.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Lunch: A delicious array of food at the full-service, trackside Garden Terrace Restaurant.

Cost: $ 75.00 per person

Departure location: DCA

Board: 10:30 am

Return: 5:30 pm

Contact: Denny Devere 203.353.1758  dgdevere@optonline.net

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Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

April 11, 2016
$40. per person

295 West Avenue

Norwalk Exit 14

90 minute guided tour

Buffet lunch at museum

First time visit to renovated servants quarters

Interior, Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

A National Historic Landmark since 1971, the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum is regarded as one of the earliest and most significant Second Empire Style country houses in the United States. Built by renowned financier and railroad baron LeGrand Lockwood between 1864 and 1868, the Mansion, with its unparalleled Gilded Age interiors and furniture, illustrates magnificently the beauty and splendor of the Victorian Era.

Downton Abbey has audiences visiting this landmark often asking about its servants and their lodgings.

The Mansion‘s domestic servants’ rooms “equal the chambers of a first class hotel,” said The New York Sun in 1869.

Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Interior

LeGrand Lockwood’s forward-thinking spirit behind these quarters offered momentary repose from the physical demands of a seven-day work week and 10-hour shifts for those living under the same roof as the family. By following the servants’ paths through the mansion. visitors will experience three distinct worlds—public, family. and service—and the social etiquette strictly enforced during the mansion’s seven decades as a private residence.

Meet at museum 10:15

Tour starts 10:30

Lunch 12:00

Contact Bill Winship (203) 655-3030 or Scott Hutchason (203) 322-5025

The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the “Whitney” – is an art museum located in Manhattan. It was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron after whom the museum is named.

The Whitney focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Its permanent collection comprises more than 21,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and artifacts of new media by more than 3,000 artists. It places a particular emphasis on exhibiting the work of living artists for its collection as well as maintaining an extensive permanent collection containing many important pieces from the first half of the last century. The museum’s Annual and Biennial exhibitions have long been a venue for younger and less well-known artists whose work is showcased there.

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