Upcoming Community Events
Ferry Beach Lodging 2024
Mar 27, 2024 - May 24, 202412:00 am
Lodging and Meal Costs for Memorial Day Weekend Retreat (Friday – Monday):
Lodging – for 3 nights, cost is per room or cottage
For an explanation of each type of lodging, see www.ferrybeach.org/lodging
- Dorm room – $85/night
- Metz cabin, full cabin – $145/night
- Kelley Cottage, full cottage – $285/night
- Morris Cottage, full cottage – $380/night
- Cross Cottage (each private room) – $125/night
- Camping – Campsite $35/night, Small RV site $40/night, Large RV site $45/night
Meal Plan – 8 meals, cost is per person
8 meals = 3 meals on Saturday & Sunday, plus Breakfast & Lunch on Monday
- Adults (18 years +) – $128 (for 8 meals)
- Youth (9-17 years) – $104 (for 8 meals)
- Children 8 years and younger – free
Note: Pre-prepared foods are prohibited in the dining hall (e.g. take-out meals) but pre-packaged foods are permitted (e.g. bag of chips). There will be a place in the Ferry Beach online registration form to indicate any dietary restrictions or preferences (e.g. allergies, vegetarian, etc.) For any questions about lodging and meals, please call Ferry Beach registration.
The DeWolfe Dining room will not be open Friday evening, but the Dolphin Room (former dining room in Quillen) will be available for gathering at any time.
Additional Fee: This year we have an added fee that will be collected by Ferry Beach with your registration, but will come to our congregations to cover the cost of various materials, activities, Social Hour snack platters and soft drinks, and lifeguard coverage. Therefore, when you register with Ferry Beach, the following fees will be included in your bill:
- $25 per Adult (age 19+)
- $15 Youth (9-18 years)
- Free for Children 8 years and under
Lodging and Meals for Memorial Day Weekend (Friday – Monday):
For any questions about lodging and meals, please call Ferry Beach registration.
If you don’t get a person, DO leave a message.
Ferry Beach Registration!
Mar 27, 2024 - May 17, 2024All Day
Registration begins March 27th. We hope many families will join with us and enjoy the wonderful the Ferry Beach housing facilities or at the lovely Grove campground, as well as lots of fun activities for all during the weekend.
Registration is by a new process that has two parts this year as follows:
Step 1: Register and pay for lodging, meals, and fees directly with Ferry Beach, using the this website that is specific to our weekend: FB Registration. Information about lodging options are also found on the Ferry Beach Website. Information about the rates for our weekend are HERE.
To register by phone, please call 207-282-4489 x1 to speak to a member of the Ferry Beach registration team. You must tell them you attend First Parish in Concord or First Parish in Lexington and would like to register for the 3-day Memorial Day Weekend with the special rates they are offering us. (These rates are discounted from the published rates found on www.ferrybeach.org.
Registration is first come, first served, so the sooner you register, the more choices you’ll have for lodging! Please register soon and latest by May 9, if at all possible.
Step 2: Complete your Registration by filling out our Google form (Registration, Part 2) with info that will come directly to the joint Planning Committee. Please find the form here: FP Info Form
Activities that we’ve loved over the years are being planned again – Sunday night Talent Show, Croquet Tournament, Sand Structure Contest, Bingo, Bracelet Making, Marshmallow Roast campfire. Let the Planning Committee know if you’d like to offer an activity or help with something!
If you have questions about Ferry Beach, especially if you have never attended before, feel free to contact your co-chairs:
Deb Weiner Soule (djweiner101@gmail.com) or Elisabeth Jas (svenjas@msn.com)
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The Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center will follow the most recent COVID guidelines in Maine. See www.ferrybeach.org/covid-19.html for the most up to date information.
A Bel Canto Soirée
Jun 9, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm
First Parish in Lexington presents
A Bel Canto Soirée:
Songs, duets and instrumental compositions by Maria Malibran and
Pauline Viardot, sisters-extraordinaires of the Romantic Era.
Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM
7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA 02421
This June, you are invited for an elegant soirée where you will be able to experience first hand some of the most admired compositions by the ingenious sisters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot as performed by Julia Jaffe (mezzo) and Yunona Tabala (soprano), in collaboration with Rip Jackson (piano) and John Rogler (cello). Dashing vocal performers, brilliant composers, elegant socialites, intellectuals, friends of Liszt, Chopin, George Sand, Turgenev and Saent-Saens – without these two women, American and European artistic scenes as we know them today would not have been the same. Sisters, and daughters of the imposing Spanish pedagogue Manuel García, Malibran and Viardot each left an indelible mark on nineteenth-century opera with their virtuosic performances. A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information, email music@fplex.org.