From: "Ted White" <twhite8@cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Other local SF organizations?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:27:37 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar@worldnet.att.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>; <WSFAlist@keithlynch.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Other local SF organizations?

> At 09:52 AM 3/20/03 -0500, Michael Walsh wrote:
> > >twhite8@cox.net 03/20/03 01:11AM
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net>
> > >To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist@KeithLynch.net>
> > >Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:32 AM
> > >Subject: [WSFA] Re: Other local SF organizations?
> > >
> > >
> > >> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > At the last meeting, Rebecca gave me old flyers from "Potomac
> > >> > River Science Fiction Association" and "Washington Area Convention
> > >> > Organization".  Has anyone ever heard of these groups, or know who
> > >> > was in them and what ever became of them?  Thanks.
> >
> >The Potomac River group I seem to recall to be more of a sercon
discussion =
> >group,  Joe Mayhew was occasionally involved.  Walter Miles may recall =
> >more.
> >
> >My vague memory is that they started out meeting at the Lums Restaurant
in =
> >Silver Spring near the now Capclave Hotel, then the Unicon hotel.  Hence
=
> >their initial name of LumsSFS.
> >
> >But it was quite some time ago.
>
> I've been trying to remember why Potomac River SF Association sounded
> familiar and  what you say pulls together the pieces that I recall.
>
> In the early 90's there was a group of fans who met at a Lums although I
> don't remember where it was -- I only went once.  Keith Marshall may know
> more about that group.

Martin Morse Wooster started his own group that met in Silver Spring or
somewhere like that, at some point in the '80s.   Could it have been the
Potomac River group?

--Ted White