Events are unique, or annual, occurrences that provide singular opportunities for entertainment, service, or education.
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.
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”
Enjoy an exciting afternoon watching all the horses racing on the track.
Belmont Park is a major Thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont, New York, just outside the New York City limits.
It first opened on May 4, 1905. It is typically open for racing throughout May and June and into late July, and again from late September through late October.
It is world famous as the home of the Belmont Stakes, known as the “Test of the Champion”, the third leg of the Triple Crown.
The United States Merchant Marine Academy is one of the five United States service academies.
It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, and the transportation industry.
Midshipmen (as students at the Academy are called) are trained in marine engineering, navigation, ship’s administration, maritime law, personnel management, international law, customs, and many other subjects important to the task of running a large ship.
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion
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.
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.
The Spice Market Restaurant in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District is a Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant that serves gourmet food in a casual atmosphere.
The Blue Notes
Bedford Falls comes alive as never before with the Goodspeed premiere of the magical tale of finding hope in your own hometown. In a tuneful re-imagining of the classic film “It’s a Wonderful Life,” a would-be angel swoops to the rescue of desperate banker George Bailey on Christmas Eve. From the Tony-winning co-creator of Fiddler on the Roof, it’s a heartwarming family musical that celebrates the power of love and the goodness in all of us. Remember: “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings”
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Many thanks to Katie Lawrence for these photos!
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Spend an hour honoring those who served and gave their lives, and have a good time with fellow members of the DMA.
If you are able to join us, please arrive at the Goodwives shopping center by 9:30 am.
We are assembling at the far end of the parking lot near the Tengda Restaurant.
It is suggested that you wear a blue shirt and tan or khaki pants (If you don’t have them, don’t worry about it.)
There is no parking at Goodwives so you will have to park at:
But, we recommend that you be dropped off, and have your driver park near the end of the parade. (The medical center across the Post Road from the Cemetery is a good choice).
The parade route proceeds down the Post Road for 1.25 miles. we will have cars for those who need a ride.
The parade starts at 10 AM and will be over by 11 AM.
We want to have marchers, but if you are unable to walk (march) we will hopefully, have enough room in our cars for those who can’t walk. We encourage those who can walk to do so.
Please come and represent the Darien Men’s Association in honoring the men and women who have served our nation.
Nearly 150 years ago, Memorial Day— first called Decoration Day— was set aside to decorate the graves of the men who’d recently died in battle. America was still reeling from the Civil War when Gen. John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, issued a proclamation in 1868, according to a PBS account of his decision. “The 30th of May,” he declared, “would be an occasion to honor those who died in the conflict.”
The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.
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