The hotel for our 2024 annual meeting is the Hampton Inn and Suites 160 Corporate Blvd, Yonkers, NY  Make your hotel reservations directly with hotel at 1-914-377-1144 and ask for the Fontaine-Maury Society group rate or book your room with this link.: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/fontainemaurysociety/ 

The rate is good until August 18, 2024. Standard double queen or king rooms $149.00 per night plus 14.88% for occupancy fee and state tax, breakfast included. Parking is $12.00 per night plus tax.

Our annual meeting dates and planned activities as announced in the recent winter newsletter will remain the same, September 20-22. This is one full month earlier than we usually meet. Our business meeting will be held Friday, September 20 at the hotel. Our Saturday activities will include a group visit to the Hastings on Hudson Historical Society and Draper Museum, lunch at and site visit to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church of the Highlands in Cold Spring, NY and a Hudson River cruise before returning to our hotel for our annual banquet. The registration form for the weekend will be available in early May. Optional activities are planned for Friday, September 20th, if you arrive by Thursday, September 19th. The registration form will have all of the details.

Our focus family is the family of the Reverend Mytton Maury and his children. The links between the Maury, Draper and Ludlow families will be explored. If you are not receiving the newsletters which provides more detailed information, please consider submitting your contact information so that one can be emailed to you. Click on “forms” at the top of the page, follow the instruction on the form and become a member.

Mary Borjon, FMS President