Join us this Saturday, August 28th for a tour out to picturesque Shelburne Falls, MA. We will depart the grange parking lot at 10:00 am and head westward along scenic back roads to our destination.

Our plan is to have lunch in Shelburne Falls where there are several lunch locations to choose from, then spend the day in their local shops and check out the attractions the town has to offer.

Plan on a full day, full tank of gas and pack a lunch if you wish to take in the views of the “bridge of flowers”. If you have any questions, call Sue and Wayne Champagne. The weather looks fantastic for this tour – hope to see you Saturday!

Our tour group consisted of the Champagne’s, Croci’s, DelMastro’s, Linden’s, O’Brien’s, Samuels, and Zappala’s. After arriving we were joined by Chuck O’Neal, who took time from work, and Jo Johnson & Jack Stokinger. In addition to the variety of gardens we were treated to a magnificent view of the mountains to the west and the Quabbin Reservoir.

Our day, filled with food and beauty, ended with a stop for ice cream, of course.

On Saturday, May 1st, John Jacobson, Dick Stitt, and Jack Stokinger drove their Model As out to Beal's Chestnut Hill Farm in Southborough to help the Knox Trail Council Boy Scouts get "Back to the Future" at their annual Spring Camporee. The Boy Scouts are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Scouting in the USA. Dave Ring, the Scoutmaster from Troop 14 in Holliston welcomed the group onto the farm property.

Doing anything on Wednesday morning? No. Well then, you are invited to join the group for breakfast at the Big Apple Deli, 331 Boston Post Road (RT 20) in Marlborough, MA.

The food is good and there is plenty of Model A talk. We arrive about 8:00 AM and stay until when-ever.

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Always Something To Fix

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Burma-Shave was introduced in 1925 by the Burma-Vita company, owned by Clinton Odell.

The company's original product was a liniment made of ingredients described as coming "from the Malay Peninsula and Burma." Demand was sparse, and the company sought to expand sales by introducing a product with wider appeal. The result was the famous Burma-Shave advertising sign program, and sales took off.

At its peak, Burma-Shave was the second-highest selling brushless shaving cream in the United States. Sales declined in the 1950s, and in 1963 the company was sold to Phillip Morris. The signs were removed at that time. The brand decreased in visibility and eventually became the property of the American Safety Razor Company.

In 1997, the American Safety Razor Company reintroduced the Burma-Shave brand, including a nostalgic shaving soap and brush kit. In fact, the original Burma-Shave was a brushless shaving cream, and Burma-Shave's own roadside signs frequently ridiculed "Grandpa's old-fashioned shaving brush."

Hop in the virtual "back seat" and take a ride with them as they travelled across the continent. Be sure to visit this website: http://boston-to-alaska.blogspot.com/

With the "Retirement" Of Roy and Helen Johnson who were respectively club Historian and Sunshine lady, we're happy to report that those positions are now "happily filled". Art Callan is our new Historian and Sally Legge is our new Sunshine person.

A big "Minuteman Thanks", Art and Sally!

This year's New England Meet will be held on September 17-19 at the Sturbridge Host on Cedar Lake in Surbridge, MA. Be sure to register early!

ON THIS DAY: November 26, 1927
FORD MODEL A AUTOMOBILE ANNOUNCED
The Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan announced the introduction of the Model A, the first new Ford automobile to enter the market since the Ford Model T was first introduced in 1908. The hugely successful Ford Model T

revolutionized the automobile industry, and over 15,000,000 million units of the "Tin Lizzie" were sold in its 19 years of automotive production and assembly. By 1927, the popularity of the outdated Model T was rapidly waning. Improved, but basically unchanged for its two-decade reign, it was losing ground to the more stylish and powerful motor cars offered by Ford Motor Company's competitors.

In May of 1927, Ford automobile production plants across the country closed, as the company began an intensive development of the more refined and modern Model A automobile. The vastly improved Ford Model A had elegant Lincoln automobile-like styling on a smaller scale, and used a capable 200.5-cubic-inch four-cylinder engine that produced 40 horsepower (hp). With prices starting at $460, nearly 5,000,000 Ford Model A automobiles, in several body styles and a variety of colors, rolled onto America's highways over a four-year period until production ended in early 1932.

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