Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:39:46 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: 4SJ Ackerman, 1916-2008 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 12/7/2008 1:00 PM >>> >Does anyone know how many Worldcons he missed? I know that as of >perhaps a decade ago, it was only one. As of the Winnipeg Worldcon - only one, see editorial note here: http://jophan.org/mimosa/m16/ackerman.htm Unfortunately I don't recall when his health precluded attending them. = I'd use my Google-fu, but I need to go to NYC soonish - meeting Monday am = (and no, there's nooooo way I'm taking an oh-my-ghod hour train to NYC = Monday am to be at Penn Station by 8.30 or so). And somewhat off topic, people who've been to all 4 Noreascons: http://www.noreascon.org/all-four-noreascons.html And for real trivia, who has the record for attending ALL of a particular = convention. The winner is probably Tony Lewis who has been to all of the (current) = Boskones, started in 1965. mjw