Logistics
Costs
The Sloan Foundation has generously agreed to pay for airfare, accommodations, and meals during the course of the workshop. It will simplify our bookkeeping greatly if each of you could cover your own in-transit ground costs, such as parking, meals, rental cars, taxis, trains, and the like. If this is not possible we will find a way to cover all of your costs, but please keep your receipts. We will tell you where to send the receipts later.
Air Tickets
For those of you traveling to the workshop by air, we ask that you travel by coach and purchase your tickets as soon as possible to ensure the best fare, times, and routes. We ask that you carry the costs of your air ticket until after your trip. After the trip, you should plan to send in your ticket receipt for reimbursement. If this is not possible we will find a way to pay for your air ticket up-front. If you are combining trips, please provide us with the documented price of a Boston-only trip so we can determine the amount of your reimbursement. Again, we will tell you where to send the receipts later.
Accommodations
The Yankee Clipper Inn is located at the very tip of Cape Ann, a little more than an hour northeast of Boston (driving directions, a map, and other information about the inn can be found at http://www.yankeeclipperinn.com). We have reserved all 16 rooms at the Yankee Clipper as well as all five rooms at the Bullfinch House, which is located across the street. You do not need to make reservations. The rooms will be assigned on a first come, first served basis, so we cannot tell you in advance in which room or in which inn you'll be staying in. The telephone number of the Yankee Clipper Inn is 800-545-3699 or 978-546-3407; the fax is 978-546-9730. The telephone number of the Bullfinch House is 978-546-9656, but we recommend using the Yankee Clipper as a contact number since it is better staffed and is where we will be holding the workshop sessions and most of the meals. Neither of the inns have a business center, but guests can make dial-in connections to the Internet from their rooms or use the Yankee Clipper's front-desk computer at off-peak times to access the Internet and check webmail. We ask that you pay your own phone charges from your room, if you have any.
Travel Instructions
We realize that there are locations we could have selected that are easier to get to. We hope that you will agree that it is worth the trip once you arrive!
Travel from Logan Airport
A good way to arrive is to take a taxi from Logan Airport to North Station (near Downtown Boston) and then take the MBTA commuter rail (Rockport line) to the end of the line. On the weekend days, the train leaves North Station for Rockport at 8:30 AM, 10:15 AM, 12:15 PM, 2:15 PM, 5:30 PM; 8:30 PM, and 11:30 PM. Fares can be paid at the ticket window in the station or on the train for a nominal extra charge. (Be careful that you don’t get on a Newburyport train, which uses the same track out of Boston but splits off to Newburyport at Beverly station.) Complete weekend and weekday schedules and maps can be found at: http://www.mbta.com/traveling_t/schedules_commuter_linedetail.asp?line=newburyport. Once at the Rockport Station, you can call a taxi (Atlantic Taxi (978) 281-5550 or Cape Ann Taxi (978) 281-4747) for the two-mile ride to the inn. Or, just call Tim Sturgeon’s mobile phone (978-457-2663) and he or someone else will come pick you up. If you have a mobile phone and can get service, you might want to call ahead once you get on the train, or from the North Station. If you would like to arrange for a private car to take you directly from the airport to the inn, you can call Pantages Transportation at 978-525-2101 or Atlantic Taxi (978) 281-5550. If you have any questions while you are in transit, please feel free to call Tim Sturgeon’s mobile phone number (978-457-2663).
Driving Directions from Greater Boston
Follow route 128 north to Cape Ann. Pass through two traffic circles in Gloucester. Continue on Route 128 to its end. At the first set of traffic lights, turn left onto Route 127. Go about three miles to where Route 127 turns a sharp left at Rockport's "five corners" noting a sign for Pigeon Cove. Turn left, continue one and two-tenths miles to The Yankee Clipper Inn. Look for the Yankee Clipper sign on the ocean side of the road. Parking is available just before the inn on the right (4 spaces), at the inn (7 spaces), and across the street (20 spaces).