We're in the final stretch

Hi, everyone.

I wanted to add my two cents to Alan's posts and welcome everyone who has signed up for the newsletter. He's already sent two of them. And we are already getting our early registrants. (It's never too early to register, and in fact it's better early than late.) 

We've been practicing with our presentations and having fun. A few problems too, but Alan is a techno-wizard and is able to work on them without wanting to rip a computer's lungs out. (That's for me to do.) 

What we hope to do in the next week or so is begin to get our galleries together. Laine Farley has charge of those so I think we will begin to list the categories. This is where we encourage you to really begin your participation. Scan or photograph your bookmarks that fit into one or more of the categories and send them to us. We are looking to see how many types in a particular category we can see. It's not so much to show off our collections as to see what was created that fits into, as an example, World War II bookmarks. It's visual history that has until relatively recently gone unappreciated. 

I also want to ask if there is anyone interested in doing a presentation that has not been contacted? If so, please let Alan or me know. We'd be glad to go over what is needed (it's easier than you think), and help you to do it. Also, if you have ideas for presentations that you would like to see please do contact us with them. We are very interested!