On the road with COA

Call the COA office at 978-456-4120 for more details or to sign up for trips. Anyone who cannot afford a trip can contact the office about a scholarship.

• Wednesday, June 29: If at least 10 people sign up, this trip to see the Lowell Spinners baseball game will happen. Seats will be behind home plate, and trip-goers will be treated with personal wait service to hot dogs, ice cream and beverages. The van will leave Hildreth House at 4:30 p.m. and return before 11 p.m. Cost is $18; payment is due with signup.
• Wednesday, July 6: The COA has organized this trip to Kittery, Maine, for lunch at Warren’s Lobster House. Lunch will be preceded by a visit to the Cape Neddick “Nubble” Lighthouse. Although this working lighthouse is inaccessible from the mainland, it has a welcome center with a telescope and information on the light dating back to 1879, when it was first lit. After lunch there will be an opportunity to visit the outlet stores in Kittery. The van will leave Hildreth House at 9 a.m. and should be back by 4 p.m. Cost is $5 plus lunch.
• Tuesday, July 12: This mid-summer tour will take in the wildflowers at the Garden in the Woods. Following the guided tour, tourgoers will dine at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn in Sudbury, the country’s oldest operating inn. The group will leave Hildreth House at 9:15 a.m. and return by 3 p.m. Cost is $15 plus lunch.
• Thursday, July 21: Sandwich, the oldest town on Cape Cod, will be the destination for this trip. The group will visit the Sandwich Glass Museum, then will have lunch at the Daniel Webster Inn. Following lunch will be a tour of the Heritage Museum and Gardens, featuring three museum buidings, with a Shaker round barn, an automobile museum, and more. This all-day trip will leave Hilldreth House at 8 a.m. Cost is $22 plus lunch.