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A New England Sampler Color & Culture A New England Sampler October 6-14, 2018 Our fall motor coach tour heads east to the rocky coast of Maine and the breathtaking beauty of New England’s autumn color season. 9-day, 8-night tour $1,995* Attractions include Saratoga Battlefield National Historical Park • Fort Ticonderoga • Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House • Shipyard and Lighthouses Boat Tour Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village • And so much more! To register for this tour, call (800) 692-1828 or visit hsmichigan.org/programs * Price is per person based on double occupancy. Includes motor coach transportation; all lodging; all dinners and breakfasts; and all admission fees, taxes, and gratuities. Historical Society of Michigan membership required. Maine and New England are beautiful at any time of year, but they’re absolutely stunning during the fall color season. The sugar maples of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine turn red, orange, and gold in a sea of color unlike anywhere else in the world. In our 9-day, 8-night Color & Culture: A New England Sampler Tour, travelers will see the countryside at its most spectacular as they take in some of the region’s premier historic sites. We’ll pull out of Michigan first thing on Saturday morning as we head for Farmington, New York. For your convenience, Day 1 we’ll be boarding at three locations: Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Dundee. The latter two locations are at Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Park-and-Ride lots. You can leave your car in the October 6, MDOT lots all week. The Lansing location will also have easy-to-use parking. Saturday We’ll skirt the south shore of Lake Erie almost all the way as we travel through Ohio and into western New York State. We’ll stop for a delicious gourmet lunch at one of I-90’s premier fast-food eateries; watch a movie on the bus’s DVD player; and compete for honor, glory, and bragging rights with a couple of Bob’s Useless Trivia contests. Our tour mascot, Cluck the Rubber Chicken, will supervise all motor coach stops. Dinner on this night will be in Fairport, New York, at Dominic’s on Main. All the restaurants on our tour are locally owned establishments, not chains. Bob says that there’s nothing wrong with great American chain restaurants, but you can eat at one of those anytime. All of the dinners include a meal, dessert, and coffee/tea/soft drink (alcohol is not included). We cover the waitstaff tips too. The night ends with lodging at the nearby Comfort Inn & Suites in Farmington. Like all of the hotels on our tour, the Comfort Inn offers a complimentary breakfast in the morning. A visit to Saratoga National Historical Park is a great way to start a tour of the northern New England states. This Day 2 National Park Service site in Upstate New York, near Lake Champlain, preserves and interprets the history of the Battles of Saratoga, the first major American military victory of the American Revolutionary War. October 7, Sunday We’ll begin at the Park Visitors Center, which offers a 20-minute orientation film, timeline, and artifact displays. We’ll also tour the four-square- mile battlefield. Sites we’ll visit on the tour include the General Philip Schuyler House and the Saratoga Monument. We’ll also see the famous Boot Monument to Benedict Arnold, the only war memorial in America that does not bear the name of its honoree. We’ll spend the afternoon touring the Saratoga Battlefield and then dine in style at the Wishing Well Restaurant in nearby Wilton. Our hotel for this night is the Comfort Inn & Suites in Saratoga Springs. We’ll spend today visiting beautiful Lake Champlain and two of the region’s great attractions: Fort Ticonderoga and the Day 3 Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Visiting Fort Ticonderoga is an amazing experience. We’ll get a 30-minute introductory talk from one of the fort’s staff and then tour at our leisure. October 8, Besides exhibits and the fort itself, you can enjoy Monday a musket-firing demonstration, guided tours of the museum and the gardens, and many other activities and demonstrations of daily life in an eighteenth-century fort. Lunch is on your own at America’s Fort Café, where you’ll find a great selection of food and have a chance to relax amongst the beautiful views of Lake Champlain, Mount Defiance, and the Green Mountains of Vermont. Our second stop on Monday is the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Vermont. Vermonters like to refer to Lake Champlain as “the Sixth Great Lake.” We Michiganders would scoff at such hubris, of course, but have to concede that Lake Champlain is both beautiful and historic. The Maritime Museum has a variety of exhibits about the lake’s history and a veritable fleet of replica vessels, including the replica 1776 gunboat Philadelphia II. Keep an eye peeled for a glimpse of “Champ,” the American version of the Loch Ness Monster that reputedly dwells in Lake Champlain. Dinner is at one of the region’s great restaurants: the Red Mill. It’s located right by Lake Champlain. Outstanding food and a stunning view—what more could we want? After dinner, it’s off to bed at the Comfort Suites in nearby South Burlington. We’ll spend the entirety of Tuesday at one of America’s truly Day 4 outstanding history attractions: the Shelburne Museum. The Shelburne sits on 45 acres and includes 39 distinct structures, each one filled with an amazing assortment of artwork and artifacts. You’ll find American folk art, French Impressionist paintings, duck decoys, circus animals, and dolls. The buildings include multiple houses and barns; a lighthouse; a jail; and even a 220-foot Lake October 9, Champlain steamship, the Ticonderoga. The whole collection of buildings Tuesday is placed in a New England village-like setting that draws thousands of visitors from all over the world. We’ll be famished after a full day of touring at the Shelburne, so after we’re done, we’ll head off to Hanover, New Hampshire, for dinner at Jesse’s Steaks, Seafood & Tavern. Our night ends at the Hampton Inn in White River Junction, Vermont, for a good night’s sleep. Wednesday’s activities include Strawbery Banke, Victoria Day 5 Mansion, and lobsters! Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is our first stop. Yankee Magazine rates this 10-acre outdoor history museum as the “Best Historic Village” in New England. It’s located in Portsmouth’s historic district and features October 10, a collection of 37 restored buildings constructed during Wednesday the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries. As you tour the buildings, you’ll encounter reenactments; interpreters; craftspeople who provide demonstrations; and formal museum exhibits about archaeology, architecture, and Photo courtesy of Maine historic construction techniques. Office of Tourism. We depart for Portland, Maine, in the afternoon to one of the finest historic houses in America: the Morse-Libby House, better known as Victoria Mansion. We’ve arranged a special house tour of this exquisite Italianate- style home. A house museum since 1941, Victoria Mansion retains more than 90 percent of its original interiors, including the original wall paintings by the Italy- born artist Giuseppe Guidicini, a master of the trompe l’oeil, or “fool the eye,” style. Open any book about nineteenth-century American architecture, and you’ll find a prominent section about Victoria Mansion. Dinnertime in Maine means…lobster! Our lobster dinner awaits at one of Portland’s true institutions: DeMillo’s on the Water. DeMillo’s opened in 1954 in downtown Portland and quickly became famous for its seafood. We’ve arranged a lobster dinner for everyone at DeMillo’s, but we’ll give you a second or third choice if you just don’t like lobster—though you really should have the lobster anyway. Our hotel for the next three nights is the Comfort Inn in Portland. We’ll spend today learning all about Maine at the Maine Historical Society Museum in downtown Portland and then go out on a cruise Day 6 to enjoy the state’s fabled rocky coast. The Maine Museum boasts a collection of more than 15,000 artifacts, including artwork, clothing, tools, political memorabilia, and industrial and domestic items that illustrate October 11, life in Maine. The museum displays its collection in a series of Thursday outstanding interpretive exhibits. The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House is right next door, and we’ve arranged a tour of that as well. The house, built in 1780s, is the oldest dwelling in Portland and the childhood home of Maine’s renowned poet. We’ll enjoy a couple of hours of free time to explore downtown Portland and then head over to the docks for a “Portland Discovery Lighthouse Lovers’ Cruise.” A tour boat will take us on a 90-minute cruise through Casco Bay and its inner islands to see lighthouses, forts, lobster boats, seals, and seabirds. The exact route varies according to weather conditions, but the tour includes four lighthouses, including a close-up view of Maine’s oldest and most photographed lighthouse: the Portland Head Light. After dinner, it’s back to the Comfort Inn. Photo courtesy of Maine Museums, a boat tour, and Shakers are on the slate for Friday! Office of Tourism. Day 7 Our first stop is Bath, Maine, and the Maine Maritime Museum, which originated in 1894 as the Percy & Small Shipyard. The shipyard, the only survivor of its kind, built wooden schooners from 1894 until 1920, including the largest one ever built in America: the 444-foot Wyoming.
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