July 2017 Air Museum tour consists of three main activites:

1. food
2. museum
3. ice cream

The write up & your action needed:

The next meeting of the Colonial Region will be a visit to the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT on July 16.  We will meet at 11:30 at Sofia’s Italian Restaurant, 136 Prospect Hill Road, E. Windsor, CT (860-623-9477).  Directions:  Route 91 to Exit 45, head east on Route 140.  Go approximately 0.2 miles up hill to light.  Sofia’s is on corner of Route 140 and Route 5.

After lunch, we will drive to the New England Air Museum, 36 Perimeter Road, Windsor, CT.  We will have a group rate of $10.50 per person.  I will need to make one payment to the Museum so please pay me when we arrive at the Museum.  We will try to caravan; it is only a 10 minute drive.  Directions:  Return to Route 91 South, go 2.5 miles to Exit 40, and take Route 20 West toward Bradley International Airport.  Stay on Route 20 for 4.5 miles, then take a right onto Bradley Park Ave, another right onto Nicholson Road and then turn left onto Perimeter Road.   Drive 1.1 miles to the Museum.

Our final stop will be at the Collins Creamery, 9 Powder Hill Road, Enfield, CT.  We can’t have a meeting without ice cream.  This is a working farm with delicious ice cream.  Directions:  Turn right out of the parking lot onto Bridge Street.  Go 0.8 mile and turn left onto Thrall Avenue.  Go 1.2 miles and turn left onto Route 159.  In 0.4 miles and turn right on Route 190 East.  In 3.8 miles turn right onto S. Maple Street which turns into Powder Hill Road, and go 1 mile.  Creamery is on right.

Please let Jane Palmer know if you will attend by July 12 (860-875-0022 or email 184palmer@comcast.net ).

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