2010 REUNION
Are
you ready for a little Inner Harbor Magic??????
The 17th
Signal Battalion Association will hold it’s 2010 reunion in the inner har-bor
area of the historical city of Baltimore in 30 September—3 October 2010.
The 17th Signal Battalion Association held it’s 2009 Board of Directors’
meeting in September to scope out locations and find you the best bang for the
buck in Baltimore. We eventually settled on the Brookshire Suites, 120 E. Lombard
Street, located two easy blocks from the harbor. Our able Treasurer Joe Donovan
negotiated a price of $109 a night for a suite!!! There are smoking rooms available
on the first floor. The hotel is also DOG friendly.
This hotel will be providing
us free happy hours each night, free meeting rooms, and will be hosting our banquet
as well. At the banquet will be a fantastic singer song writer (Angel Perez- a
two tour Iraq vet-eran) to provide free entertainment of his songs and others.
Guest speakers are being lined up to include active duty military members, a slide
presentation of Tanzania by Association members Fred & Paula Fer-tik, and
for those who remember Mama Maria’s in 2006 in South Philly—dinner night
out to Little Italy. Or maybe the seafood place that Joe & Sam checked out,
with crab cakes the size of a grapefruit!
Our Historian, Monroe Manning is
working with the National Park Service there to set up a guided tour for our group.
Fort McHenry is the birthplace of our Star Spangled Banner, served as a prison
for Southern Sympathizers during the Civil War, and served in the defense of Baltimore
in the War of 1812. The water taxis ($9.00 for an all day ticket) will take you
to over 35 attractions and neighborhoods to in-clude: National Aquarium, Little
Italy, Science Center, Federal Hill, American Visionary Art Museum, Mari-time
Park and the African American Museum. Baseball fans can walk to Camden Yard to
watch a Balti-more Orioles game—home games that weekend! For our ship fans—the
USS Constellation and other historic ships are docked within 3 blocks of the hotel.
BWI airport is only a short light rail trip ($5.00 and a terminal 3 blocks from
the hotel) —so, get ship shape, bring your walking shoes, and prepare to
explore the friendly city of Baltimore with your comrades from the 17th!
Registration
forms will be made available in the July 2010 newsletter and on the web. But before
then, check out our hotel on the web at www.harbormagic.com!
Check
it out on the web - great location - 3 blocks from the visitor's center, 8 blocks
from Camden Yard, Aquarium, and Little Italy etc.
www.harbormagic.com/Brookshire
is the website for the hotel - good info.
Driving
Directions to The Brookshire Suites
120 East Lombard Street, Baltimore,
MD 21202
FROM THE NORTH (from New York,
New Jersey, Philadelphia):
Take I-95 South and go through the Fort McHenry.
Take exit 53 (395 North), Downtown Inner Harbor. Take Downtown until the intersection
of Pratt Street. Take a right onto Pratt Street. Continue approximately 4 traffic
Light to Calvert Street. Make a left onto Calvert and Continue for 1 block until
the intersection with Lombard Street. The hotel is on the left in the corner of
Calvert and Lombard.
FROM CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA:
Take 83 South to Lombard
Street. Make a right turn onto Lombard Street. Continue approximately for 5 lights
to Calvert Street. The hotel is on the corner of Calvert and Lombard.
FROM
THE SOUTH (from Washington D.C., Virginia and Southern states):
Take 95 North
into Baltimore and take Exit 53 (395). Take 395 (Downtown Inner Harbor). Stay
on the downtown exit until the intersection with Pratt Street. Take a right onto
Pratt Street. Continue approximately 4 traffic light to Calvert Street. Make a
left on to Calvert and continue for 1 block until intersection with Lombard Street.
The hotel is on the left in the corner of Calvert and Lombard.
FROM 295
NORTH (BWI Airport, Washington D.C.):
Follow 295 North into Baltimore. Make
a right turn onto Pratt Street. Continue for 1 block until the intersection with
Lombard Street. The hotel is on the left in the corner of Calvert and Lombard.
FROM THE WEST (from Frederick, Pittsburgh):
Take 70 East to 695 (Towson).
Follow 695 to 83 South (Baltimore). Make a right turn onto Lombard Street. Continue
on Lombard for approximately 5 light to Calvert Street. Hotel is on the right
on the corner of Calvert and Lombard Street.
THE
CLOUD CLUB | BREAKFAST
WITH BITE Saturdays, 8:30am to 10:30am Join the Brookshire’s shark mascot (that would be Mr. Bite to you) for a fun character breakfast in the hotel’s Cloud Club overlooking the Inner Harbor. Free photos taken! |
1200-1700
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