Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:59:21 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA relaxacons, was  History of D.C. fandom article
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 2/11/2006 12:32:26 PM >>>
>Datclave                  1980 (Fifth Friday, February 29th)
>Datclone                  1981 Sheraton in Gettysburg     Jack/Eva
>Capicon 60                1982 2/26-28  HoJo near Baltimore
>D'Udderclave              1983                            Jul Owings
>Bobclave/George The Party 1984 2/24-26, York Valley Inn, York PA
>No-Name-Con               1985 HoJo near Baltimore        Lee Smoire
>
>Datclave 2?               2008 (Fifth Friday, February 29th)
>Datclave 3?               2036 (Fifth Friday, February 29th)
>Datclave 4?               2064 (Fifth Friday, February 29th)
>Datclave 5?               2092 (Fifth Friday, February 29th)
>
>As Michael Walsh mentioned, the name "Capicon '60" was recycled
>from a
>failed Worldcon bid of 22 years earlier.  Appropriately enough, after
>another 22 years, I put directions to it on the web.
>
>There's also a map to it in the same WSFA Journal that contained the
>directions, but I didn't put it online.  Perhaps it will be put
online
>in another 22 years, in 2027.  (Which, by a remarkable coincidence,
>will be the same year Capclave '05 members get their Howard
>Waldrop chapbook.)

Hah! Once again science fiction fails to predict the future <g>.  Mr
Nelson and Mr Lilley are busily at work getting the $%& at # thing done.  I
think we might even have something to show at Boskone.... this year.

Atleast it's being published before "The Last Dangerous Visions" sees
print.... <g>

mjw