Friday, August 6th, 2010 - "Check In"
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Board of Directors
Meeting
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Hotel Check
In, Informal Meet and Greet 3:00 pm - 7:00
pm Dinner - On your own, but there's a restaurant in the hotel and another one next door: http://www.theironworkstavern.com/
7:15 pm -
Opening Session - Conference
Room
Welcome to Rhode Island -
Bill &
Gail
Some new info about Henry
and the Parsons - Bill
& Gail
(Hint: it involves debts and a murder mystery)
Three Mattesons and the
"Gettysburg Gun" - TBA
Start of the Business
Session
Saturday,
August 7th, 2010 - "Fun in Newport" (Map)
7:00 am - 8:15 am Breakfast at the Hotel (up to four included with room)
8:45 am - 9:45 am
Conclude Business Session
- Conference Room
10:00 am
- Board the Bus. Please read the Terms and Conditions
10:15 am
- Arrive at Henry's grave site
10:45 am
- Board the Bus
11:30 am
- Arrive at Fort
Wetherill State Park, Jamestown, for box lunch
12:15 pm
- Board the Bus
1:00 pm - Arrive at The
Breakers mansion, Newport
2:15 pm - Board the Bus
2:30 pm - Arrive at Rosecliff
mansion, Newport
3:45 pm - Board the Bus
4:45 pm - Arrive at The Coast Guard
House restaurant, Narragansett - our pics
6:45 pm - Board the Bus
7:30 pm - Arrive at the Hotel
7:45 pm - Evening session
Coffee
and Anniversary Cake (sponsered by Dorothy and Gordon Matteson)
White
elephant sale
"A Tale of Two Hugh Parsons'" - Bill and Gail
"The Matteson-Shippee Transaction" - Walter Lawrence
Awards
and closing ceremony
Sunday, August 8th, 2010
- "In the Footsteps of Henry" (Map)
7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast at the Hotel (up to four included with room)
9:00 am Board the bus for tour of West Greenwich sites 10:30 am Start towards
Portsmouth
11:30 am Arrive at the Parsons homestead (Now George and Siobhan Thurston) 12:00 noon Board the bus for the Portsmouth Historical Society 12:30 pm Board the Bus for lunch - Melville Grille
2:30 pm Board the bus for Bristol 3:15 pm Board the Prudence
Island
Ferry
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Tour of
Prudence
Island 5:15 pm Board the Prudence
Island
Ferry
6:15 pm Arrive at the Clement Weaver House
(Home of two of Henry and Hannah's Dauthers-in-Law) 6:45 pm - Board the bus for the hotel 7:30 pm Arrive back at the hotel