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New Meeting Place We will be holding our monthly meetings at The Farmington Senior Center at 321 New Britain Avenue, Unionville CT 06085. The dates for our upcoming meetings are: October 15, 2008, November 19, 2008, January 14 ,2009, February 18, 2009, April 15, 2009, May 20, 2009, October 21, 2009 and November 18, 2009. If you have a suggestion for a speaker for one of our meeting please call Tom Karpeichik at 860-489-0346. Annual Banquet will be on Saturday March 7th at the Cornucopia. If you are coming West on Route 4 into Collinsville Center turn left after Friendly’s onto South Main Street (Route 179). Go .2 of a mile, over the bridge, and turn left onto New Britain Avenue. The Senior Center is .8 of a mile on the left. October Newsletter Download the latest newsletter here This Months Meeting
Wednesday, October 15th Thomas Ames, JR. THOMAS AMES JR. learned his craft of illustration, photography and film in New York City working as a camera director for Grossman Brothers Productions, making 3-D animated commercials, before fleeing to northern New England, where he opened his own studio in 1987. Tom is as adept with a fly rod as he is with a camera. He is the author/photographer of “Fishbugs” and the “Hatch Guide For New England Streams” the most useful and informative book for eastern fly fishers since Art Flick's Streamside Guide in 1947." His newest book for fly fishers, “The Eastern Book of Caddisflies”, is due in stores in late 2008. Tom is also a husband, the father of three extraordinary children, and a Black Belt student and senior instructor of Shorinryu karate. Doors will open early at 6:00 pm for fly tying and socializing. Meeting will start at 7:00 pm
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