Subject: Invitation for a Day Outing during Chestertown's Tall Ship Festival/Downrigging Weekend
From: "Steve Clemons" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:23:43 -0400

*​Greetings all -*

Andrew and I want to invite you and your family out for a day outing
to *Chestertown,
Maryland *-- a great gem of a colonial town on the Eastern Shore --
for *"Downrigging
Weekend"* (28-30 October) when many of the best tall ships and classic
wooden craft of the region all dock up in front of our home, Widehall.
There are all sorts of fun things going on, and I'll attach both a schedule
of what the town has going on and a roster of the cool ships coming this
way.

For those of you who want to make a full weekend of it, there are great
places like the *Imperial Hotel *and the *Swann Inn* that we can recommend
and are just a one minute walk from our front door.  We'll be having a
number of folks staying with us through the weekend -- and we thought we
could offer our place to families and friends who wanted to come by for any
of this on *Saturday, 29 October.*  The Sultana Education Foundation (the
Sultana is a to-scale, working replica of a colonial schooner that traveled
between Chestertown and England more than 200 years ago -- but it now sails
the waters of the Chesapeake) has done a fab job making this Downrigging
stuff both historically interesting and beautiful.  You may enjoy it more
than the annual drab of Halloween.

Here is the schedule of the weekend:
*http://sultanaeducation.org/public-programs/sultana-public-sails/downrigging-weekend-2/festival-schedule/
<http://sultanaeducation.org/public-programs/sultana-public-sails/downrigging-weekend-2/festival-schedule/>*

And here is information on the visiting ships - and more info in the left
column about everything else:
*http://sultanaeducation.org/public-programs/sultana-public-sails/downrigging-weekend-2/participating-tall-ships/
<http://sultanaeducation.org/public-programs/sultana-public-sails/downrigging-weekend-2/participating-tall-ships/>*

The address of *Widehall* (our home) is *101 North Water Street,
Chestertown, MD 21620*.

Hope you can join us -- and *look forward to hearing back from you*.

All best,

*Steve & Andrew