2009 Portuguese Podengo National Specialty Overview |  | |
This year's National Specialty will be held for the first time ever in historic New England. Previous specialties have been held in the beautiful Delaware Gap, North Carolina and Kentucky.
PPCA's National Specialty week will begin Wednesday, July 1st and continue through Sunday, July 5th with daily events at The Yankee Classic at the Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts, a five-day AKC show hosted by the Naugatuck Valley Kennel Club, the Kenilworth Kennel Club, the Farmington Valley Kennel Club and the Holyoke Kennel Club, with Rally and Obedience Events our Podengos are eligible to enter. The Kenilworth Kennel Club of Connecticut is the coordinating club for The Yankee Classic.
Mark Your Calendars!
PPCA's National Podengo Specialty 2009 will be held Saturday, July 4th in Enfield, Connecticut, 8 miles from the Big E. We are honored to welcome Luis Gorjao-Henriques, FCI international judge from Portugal, to judge our Conformation classes. AKC Judge Madeleine Fish will judge the Sweepstakes, and AKC Judge Marge Calthorp has agreed to judge our non-regular class, Born & Bred in the U.S.A.!
The Specialty will also include handling clinics for kids and adults; a Parade of Podengos, for ALL of our Pequenos (costumes optional!); a "Brag & Tell"; and a Judge's hands-on clinic following the conclusion of competition.
We have posted links to partnered AKC Companion events for our Podengos; links to AKC events for PPCA members bringing other AKC breeds to the shows; our host hotel, annual meeting and celebratory dinner; local historic sites (including our show venue); and, more useful information.
This will be a super Specialty with lots of fun and festivities planned for all! Click on the link to the 2009 PPCA Premium List & Entry Form onder the PPCA Shows menu for complete show information.
Area Attractions & Services
Transportation
Bradley Int'l Airport- Hartford/Springfield
Providence-Green Airport, Rhode Island
Worcester, MA Airport
Logan Int'l Airport - Boston
Tourist Sites
Old Sturbridge Village
National Basketball Hall of Fame
Busch-Reisinger Museum
Eastern State Exposition (Big E)
Mark Twain Home (Hartford)
Tri County Fairgrounds
Stafford Motor Speedway
Air Museum
Six Flags New England
Mohegan Sun
Foxwoods
Trolley Museum
Recreation Areas/Forests
Algonquin State Forest
American Legion State Forest
Connecticut Resv State Park
Hampton Ponds State Beach
Heckscher State Park
Jaskinner State Park
JC Robinson State Park
Meshomasic State Park
Moosebrook State Park
Nathan Hale State Forest
Nipmuck State Forest
Penwood State Park
Peoples State Forest
Shenipsit State Forest
Stratton Brook State Park
Massacoe State Forest
Nearby Restaurants
Bickford's (adjacent to host hotel)
Cracker Barrel
Figaro's
Friendly's
Ninety Nine
Outback Steakhouse
Hazard Grill
McDonald's
Old Country Buffet
Olive Garden
Panera Bread
Ruby Tuesday's
Starbucks & Subway (next to hotel)
Wendy's
Shopping
Eastfield Mall
Holyoke Mall
Ingleside Mall
Enfield Malls (next to & across from hotel)
Religious
St Patrick RC Church
Enfield Congregational
Temple Beth Hillel
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About the Location |  | | | That's Enfield in red, it borders Longmeadow, Massachusetts |
Enfield is a town of 45,200 citizens, made up of two villages (Hazardville and Thompsonville) in the northern part of Connecticut, bordering Massachusetts. The National Podengo Specialty is in the Hazardville part of Town, and was named after Colonel Augustus George Hazard (1802-1868) whose company manufactured gun powder in a part of the town known as Powder Hollow from the 1830s to the 1910s. The show itself will take place in an 1842 facility in the Hollow, next to a trout stream and wooded areas and fields. Very New England!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield,_CT |
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Podengo Week Shows at the Big E |  | | | Visitor's Center at the Big E |
The Eastern States Exposition, called "The Big E", is located in West Springfield, Massachusetts, about 8 miles from the PPCA host hotel in Enfield, Connecticut. Portuguese Podengos will be able to compete in AKC Companion Events at the Big E on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. PPCA's National Specialty is Saturday in historic Hazardville, a section of Enfield.
http://www.thebige.com/Dogs.html |
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Old Sturbridge Village |  | |
Great Destination!
A trip to Old Sturbridge Village, the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, is a journey through time to a rural New England town of the 1830s. Visitors are invited into more than 40 original buildings, each carefully researched, restored, and brought to the museum site from towns throughout New England. These include homes, meetinghouses, a district school, country store, bank, law office, printing office, carding mill, sawmill, gristmill, pottery, blacksmith shop, shoe shop, and cooper shop.
Authentically costumed staff, called history interpreters, carry out the daily activities of an early 19th-century community. Here you may wander country roads and visit with a farmer plowing fields, listen to the blacksmith's rhythmic hammering, or smell the aroma of bread baking in a fireplace oven. With more than 200 acres to explore, there is always something new to see at Old Sturbridge Village.
The period portrayed by Old Sturbridge Village, 1790-1840, is of major significance because it was a time in which the everyday lives of New Englanders were transformed by the rise of commerce and manufacturing, improvements in agriculture an transportation, the pulls of emigration and urbanization, and the tides of educational, political, aesthetic, and social change/
The Village's portrayal of the past is grounded in award-winning historical research that includes archaeology, scientific analysis of 19th-century objects and buildings, and painstaking study of letters, diaries, account books, and other documents.
Old Sturbridge Village's purpose is to provide modern Americans with a deepened understanding of their own times through a personal encounter with New England's past.
http://www.osv.org |
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Celebration Dinner & Annual MeetingPPCA's annual dinner and meeting will be held at the aclaimed Hazard Grille in the Hazardville section of Enfield (Hazardville was named after Colonel Augustus George Hazard).
http://www.hazardgrille.com |
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Bradley International Airport
Bradley International Airport at Hartford/Springfield is located 8 miles from the show site and the host hotel.
/www.bradleyairport.com/home/ |
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