 The events below are the ones we know about that are of interest to New England Alfisti, listed in chronological order. To submit new events, or changes to listed events, please contact the Webmaster. Look forward to lots more fun stuff happening as the new AONE management team gets rolling! And don’t forget - you don’t have to be a Director to pitch in - give one of them a call and offer to lend a hand! Mark your calendars with the events that interest you - we’ll see you there!!! |
AONE All-Member Annual
Saturday, February 9
Renowned Automotive Writer To Be Guest Speaker!Everything’s in place
for the annual AONE Winter Dinner Party that’ll be held on Saturday, February 9! And we’ve the good fortune to have automotive writer Craig Fitzgerald agree to be our guest speaker! Craig writes a weekly column for the Boston Globe as well as several other publications, including The Worcester Magazine, The Concord Journal, cars.com, and boston.com. He also serves as President of the New England Motor Press Association. He’s a dynamic, interesting guy and will have many stories from his colorful career as an automotive guru, after which we’ll open it up to an informal Q&A session. It’ll sure be interesting to get his take on Alfa’s return to the States, say what?| Help
kick off the Official AONE Italian Cookbook at the Winter Party! Here’s a little twist: At the last AONE Board of Directors meeting back in November, the idea of publishing an AONE Cookbook was discussed and heartily endorsed. So, when you bring your culinary contribution to the Winter Party, bring the recipe for it too! We’ll collect them and use them as the basis for compiling our Cookbook. This means that, when the Cookbook comes out, we party-goers will have actually had the opportunity to taste many of the recipes in it! We’ll collect and compile more recipes from AONE member over the next few months, with the goal of publishing the Cookbook in plenty of time for holiday giving at the end of the year, also advertising it and making it available to all Alfisti throughout the land. The idea of sharing our Italian recipes with our fellow Italian car club members, while raising some funds for our club’s coffers, should be a sure-fire hit! So bring along your gastronomic creation, bring along your recipe for it, and you’ll see it in print (with appropriate credit) in our upcoming Cookbook! |
This season’s affair will again be held at the Josiah Smith Tavern in Weston, MA, the site of the last two years’ blowouts and several momentous AONE bashes of years gone by. It’s a cozy, old, comfortable, wood-paneled, centrally located venue—perfect for our gathering. We plan to kick things off at 6PM. Significant others are much more than welcome—last year, we had quite a few of the gentler gender present. Dress is casual.
Since everyone loved the format of our last couple of parties, we’ve decided again that the best way to get the best food for our soiree will be—to bring our own food! So it’s pot luck once again! If you make a special dish (or can talk your significant other into making one for you), bring it along! This is an Italian car club, so Italian food is de rigueur, but it really doesn’t matter. Entrees, salads, breads, desserts—anything goes! There will be a kitchen available to warm things up.
The club will be supplying soft drinks, but if you prefer something a little more bracing, feel free to bring your own. As always, there will be lots of great (and not-so-great) Alfa-oriented door prizes!
There will be no charge for members and their guests—hey, you’re bringing the food, right? Your club will be renting the hall, providing the soft drinks, and arranging for the entertainment. Although not required, we’re asking you to help in our planning by either signing up online by clicking right here or by contacting AONE Director and event organizer Frank Maldari at 978-475-2846 or by email at mbellatrix@aol.com. This will let us tell the Tavern how many people to expect and help us figure out what kind of food is needed. Questions? Contact Frank!
Directions to the Josiah Smith Tavern
From the East: Take Route 128 (I-95) to the Weston/Route 20 exit (Exit 26). Follow Route 20 west for 1.2 miles until you reach the first set of lights. Take a right onto School Street, and travel one block to the town center. Take a left, and the tavern is a white clapboard building on the left.
From the West: Take Route 20 east. One-half mile past the Weston Police Station, you will reach a set of lights. Take a left onto School Street, and travel one block to the town center. Take a left, and the tavern is a white clapboard building on the left.
Some of the revelers at last year’s bash
The AONE Winter Party has become a "don’t-miss"
affair, with over 55 revelers in attendance last
year. Don’t miss out! 
AONE Tour To and Tour Of
the New England Air Museum
Sunday, March 17
On March 17th (yes, that’s
St. Patrick’s day, but hey – this is an Italian car club), Alfa Owners of
New England is planning a tour to and of the New England Air Museum, located next to
Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. We’ve also invited the
Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey AROC chapters to join us, as well as the Sunbeam
Tigers East / Alpines East club, so you may get a chance to see a few cars you
haven’t seen before!
We’ll start off by rendezvousing with the various sports car clubs in
Sturbridge, Massachusetts for a scenic trip down into Connecticut, traveling entirely on
sparsely trafficked secondary roads in the northeastern corner of the state. The route
takes us through woods and past lakes, farms, and tobacco sheds and is really quite
pleasant. It’s a 42-mile romp that’s actually a fairly direct route between
Sturbridge and Bradley, and beats any Interstate route hands-down.
But before we arrive at the museum, when we get to Enfield, CT (just a few miles away), we’ll be pulling into an Olive Garden restaurant to unwind from the tour and for a little Italian sustenance. After lunch, we’ll head the rest of the way to the museum.
If you’ve never been to the New England Air Museum, you’re in for a
real treat. The museum features many rare and special planes. On the day of our tour,
there will be open cockpits on some of the planes as well as tours of the restoration
facility. It really is an incredible place. More details can be found at the New England Air Museum web site. Not
an Alfa Romeo event, you say? Well, Alfa has made some mighty aircraft engines during its
history – maybe we’ll get to see one!
You can stay at the museum as long as you’d like before heading back. For the return trip, we’ve planned another route that parallels the trip down a little further south and is just as pleasant and scenic, dumping you out on I-84 just below the CT-MA border.
The Agenda:
11:00 - Meet in Sturbridge
11:30 - Leave Sturbridge on the scenic tour
12:30 - Arrive at the Olive Garden for lunch
1:30 - Leave for the Air Museum
1:45 - Meet in the Lobby and explore the museum
5:00 - Museum Closes
Directions: Our launch pad will be the parking lot of the Ox Head Tavern in Sturbridge, MA. To get there from the north, take the Mass Turnpike to Exit 9 onto Route I-84. From the south, take Route I-84 East. Take Exit 3B on I-84, which brings you onto Massachusetts Route 20 West. The Ox Head Tavern driveway is approximately one mile down on the right, between McDonald’s & Burger King. Watch for the sign.
Museum Cost:
Adults (age 12 & up) $7.25
Children Ages 6 - 11 $3.75
Children Age 5 & under free
Seniors (age 60 & up) $6.25Restaurant Cost: Depends on how hungry you are.
For those who wish to attend but would rather just meet us at the museum, plan on being there at 1:45. Check the New England Air Museum web site for directions or use the map below. Alternatively, you can meet us at the Olive Garden at 12:30. It’s located at 41 Hazard Road, Enfield, which is CT Route 190 about a half mile east of I-91.
