Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:29:23 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yesterday
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I first saw them on Tuesday.  In my friend Shirl's yard.  Actually, the
first one I saw was in my bedroom.  Bastet was having her wicked kitty way
with it.  Bastet and Orion think these guys are just great.  I can't yet
tell if I'm really hearing the spaceship landing or if it's all my imagination.

At 05:26 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote:
>Yesterday I went to Sam's, to work with him on getting more graphics
>into the online copies of the old WSFA Journals.  Issues back to April
>1982 are online, but with graphics only for issues in the 1990s and
>later, so far.  The gap continues to increase, but this should soon
>change, since my taking over as Secretary next month should slow down
>my placing of old text online while speeding up Sam's placing of old
>graphics online.
>
>On the way there, I saw the first cicadas of the year.  But only in
>Virginia, not in Maryland.  In spots they are already quite numerous,
>while in other spots just a two minute walk away, they're still
>completely absent.  I suspect they won't remain absent for long.
>
>Sam drove me home, so he could give me custody of the WSFA archives.
>They're larger than I thought they would be.  I'm still trying to
>figure out where to put everything.
>
>There's some fascinating stuff there, but it's very patchy.  There's
>also lots of less interesting stuff, also very patchy.  We have
>the 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1979 Disclave art show bid sheets, but
>apparently none from earlier or later cons.  (Some could be hiding
>among other stuff, but certainly not ones for *all* Disclaves --
>there isn't room.)
>
>There's one copy of each of the WSFA Press books.  Plus a signed Jack
>Chalker paperback, which is inscribed "This copy is for WSFA, in spite
>of whom I finished it, so they can donate it to the WSFA library where
>no human beings will ever see it again."  Not quite true, as it turns
>out.  (I hope Jack is reading this.)
>
>There are two videotapes of 1994 Fast Forward programs, but none
>before or since.  Audio cassette tapes of meetings in the 80s.
>Handwritten minutes of WSFA meetings in the 60s.  ("Guests" at the
>First Friday, May 5, 1961 meeting included Joe Mayhew.  Tom Haughey,
>who is on this list, was also present at that meeting.)  Fliers for
>the cancelled 1998 Disclave.  A small number of blank membership
>cards, apparently quite old.  Handwritten minutes of WSFA meetings in
>the 50s.  Completed and signed membership application forms from the
>80s.  WSFA Journals, of course, but only going back to issue #68 in
>1969.  (Alexis has issues back to #1 in 1965.)  A nearly complete run
>of the Son of the WSFA Journal.  An undated proposal that WSFA create
>a website.  Lots of old Disclave souvenir books.  Various random
>fanzines.  Handwritten minutes of WSFA meetings in the 40s!
>
>Don Miller wasn't WSFA's first secretary after all.  Someone named
>Roy W. Loan, Jr. was.  Anyone ever heard of him?
>
>I wonder if, in the 2060s, someone will post "Lydia Ginter wasn't
>WSFA's first secretary after all.  Someone named Keith Lynch was
>secretary much earlier.  Anyone ever heard of him?"
>
>I plan to take a complete inventory, and print it in the WSFA Journal.
>--
>Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
>Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

Candy

P.S. I don't have any pictures yet, but see my new web-site at
www.hourglass-creations.com