Below is the May 2024 President Message:
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HAPPY REAL SPRING! I think it’s finally here. (hopefully)
The upcoming May meeting will be at the Hancock Volunteer Fire Dept. Car Show on SATURDAY May 11 at IOKA Valley Farm on Route 43 in Hancock. This is an annual event and usually draws some non-member Plymouth and Dodge owners. Hours are 10-2. Food is available. Look for the Car club sign. Questions, call or email Judy Whitman. Info below. The rain date is Sunday, but hopefully we won’t need it.
If you missed our 50th Club Anniversary banquet, I’m sorry, your loss. The food was good and plentiful, everyone got a chance to relax and visit, our service was over the top, there were many memorable events displayed and discussed plus a celebratory atmosphere, 2 surprise guests and several door prizes, all Plymouth related.
MOST important was the connection between the club history and this banquet in Sturbridge. The FIRST Colonial Region National Meet was held in Sturbridge, Ma. in August 1989 less than a mile away from the banquet restaurant. That was to be the “Floodgates From Heaven” meet as described in the National Bulletin #179, Nov/Dec 1989 starting on page 8. A surprise nor’easter dumped 8” of rain on our meet. The pictures are amazing and attending our banquet was the videographer who took the pictures for that meet, Steve Thompson. He admits to the photography being a real challenge. Also attending the banquet was my predecessor, Betty Kibbee, with 20 yrs. as president of the Colonial Region. Her daughter Sarah, who graciously drove, has expressed hope to inherit the Kibbee’s 1956 Dodge.
For the complete history, Don has posted it on our web site. BUT there is a typo — in the paragraph with the National Club name changes where it says 1898— it should be 1989. There was no club in the 1800s.
Don Palmer has also posted pictures from the banquet.
I must say how grateful we are for the help of Russ Nardi for arranging the donations of badges and door prizes that made the banquet special.
Just announced — The AACA Museum is opening in May with a new exhibition of the Plymouth. If anyone gets to Hershey, PA to check this out, please report it to the club.
Judy