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  • Now is the time of year to begin or renew your membership for the 2012 calendar year.
  • The ILR Spring semester runs April 2 to May 31. Closing date for course registration is March 23, 2012. Confirmation letters will be mailed to enrollees by the end of March.
  • The annual ILR Luncheon Meeting will be held on June 13th at the Grassy Hill Country Club in Orange.

 

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Events & Trips

Marcia Jamron has once again organized two very interesting trips for ILR members. Thank you Marcia for organizing these and many other enjoyable and educational ILR events.

 

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Peabody Essex Museum

Ground Zero

 

Trip to Peabody Essex Museum on Tuesday, May 15

For 200 years, the house known as Yin Yu Tang stood in a rural village in southeastern China. Belonging to the Huang family, the house was oriented according to the principles of feng shui and constructed in accord with local traditions. This 16-bedroom merchant’s home was re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. It is presented to us as it was when the Huang family last lived there in the 1980’s.

Genealogical records and family possessions reveal, through eight generations, historical changes in China as they affected individuals’ daily lives.

We will leave Connecticut at 8:15 am. Our lunch in the Museum’s atrium will be at noon. Our docent-led tour begins at 1:15 pm. After the House tour, we will have almost an hour to journey through New England’s grand past, when global entrepreneurs, as patrons of the arts, gathered extraordinary paintings, textiles, costumes and fine maritime art from around the world. See almost a million objects housed in a breathtaking building and surrounded by beautiful grounds. Come join ILR – learn and wonder! Cost is $50. Make out your check to ILR and mail it to Marcia Jamron, 229 Karen Drive, Orange CT 06477. Further instructions will follow upon receipt of your check. If you have questions, call Marcia at 203.795.4444, or email jam229@sbcglobal.net

To see some Peabody Essex Museum images, go to http://www.ilralbertus.org/gallery.html

 

 

Trip to Ground Zero Trip on Tuesday, June 5

Only by exploring Ground Zero can you truly grasp the enormity of what transpired there. Today there is intense new interest in events related to that horrific day. Visit nearby venues and learn what critical part they played during those first dreadful days. Our tour guides will give us the riveting account of event-hear the poignant stories of heroic bravery ad sacrifice-see tiny St. Paul’s Church which miraculously survived the attack and what part it played-also see the American Express Eleven Tears Memorial – the Reflecting Absence Memorial and the Steel Beam Cross- the Firefighters 9/11 Memorial and Engine and Ladder Companies-the Essex World Deli that became an emergency medical station.

We’ll have a guided tour of the newly opened 9/11 Memorial, built on the exact site where the Twin Towers once stood. You will get a profound sense of the magnitude of the attack and its disastrous effects, as well as a renewed hope as you witness firsthand the heartening rebirth of this hallowed area. Lunch included. Bus pick-up at 8:30 am. Cost $100. Make out your check to ILR and mail it to Marcia Jamron, 229 Karen Drive, Orange CT 06477. Further instructions will follow upon receipt of your check. If you have questions, call Marcia at 203.795.4444, or email jam229@sbcglobal.net

To see some Ground Zero images, go to http://www.ilralbertus.org/gallery.html

 


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