Thanks for the peek into your conference experience, Edith! More,
please (from you or others!)

I am sad to hear that only 12 people attended. Why does the board
think this is?

For those of you who didn't come this year (I'm one of them), why did
you elect not to participate? Any constructive feedback on how you
might be enticed to come next year?

Paula



--- In HistoricalHarp@yahoogroups.com, Edith Dersch <eadxhpr@...> wrote:
>
> Gregory,
>
> Saw some of the tunes! They're great!
>
> The HHS Conference this year was one of the best I've been to (for
me anyway) - in many ways!
> Content, flow, organization, presentation, amiability, etc.
>
> See the HHS website (http://www.historicalharps.org) (Harpers - BTW:
At the bottom of the HHS
> Website the 2006 Conf & Wrkshp is listed as "2005" not 2006.....)
for a synopsis of the lectures.
> "Harp Divas of Peru" was not presented - a good, thought provoking
panel discussion on 'what to
> call the kind of harp I play' was held.
>
> Unfortunately, there were only about 12 attendees. HHS needs better
attendance at the Conference
> & Workshop in order to survive!
>
> So - the Conference was GREAT! (dorm rooms @ $53.50 included
breakfast AND A/C). The weather was
> FABULOUS! (and I had enough free time to see some of the sights of
Madison (mainly Madison's "Art
> of the Square" - an incredibly HUGE art/craft 'show' - the 8 blocks
around the capital Square are
> closed off and lined on both sides with vendors).
>
> I went for the weekend only. (yes, Madison is a bit of a distance
for East Coasters. I happen to
> like train travel - and so I went from Phila. to Washington D.C.
where I caught an overnight train
> to Chicago - and then a bus to Madison - which dropped me off in
front of the Student Union on
> campus - about 2 blocks from where I needed to be! one way travel
time about 28 hours - AND - I
> was up for just sitting watching the world go by - so train travel
worked well for me - it did
> include a night on the train - seat is reasonably comfortable - and
space is WAY bigger than an
> airline seat).
>
> I took pictures - still trying to figure out how to pick one from
the Picasa folder and 'insert'
> it in my e-mail....
>
> Hope to see 'everyone' in 2007!
>
> Edith Dersch
> Assistant Treasurer
>
>
> --- gregory balsewicz <zciweslab@...> wrote:
>
> > my friend ellen tepper came out for a visit last weekend and we
> > videotaped about 9 tunes ranging from the renaissance to the baroque.
> > check them out at: www.youtube.com
> > her rendition of 'the last rose of summer' has been quite popular.
> > here in new england where the night temperatures have started to
> > plummet below freezing, the last roses of summer are fading quick.
> > an aside here, i haven't heard anything about this years conference
> > that was held in madison. it would be much easier to post this stuff
> > than to actually print it and mail it, and seemingly it would be alot
> > quicker, too. this website is a wonderful forum- if people (hhs
> > members and officers) would only use it.
> > gregory
> >
> >
> >
> >
>