[TheForge] "Official" news from ABANA

[Dave Mudge]

Rick, thanks for your response.
I think that the overwhelming majority of ABANA members are "part time" smiths.
I could not have been able to afford to attend LaCrosse either if I
had not been a board member, which means that I get in and eat free.
But believe me, We almost all work our butts off to pull off a good
conference.
dave m

On 2/18/07, Smoky <rick at smokyforge.com> wrote:
> I only live about 2 or 3 hours south of LaCrosse, Wi.  I had really planned
> on attending, until the last few weeks when I started seeing the actual gate
> fees advertised.  That was just WAAAAY out of line for most folks to go to.
> Definitely out of my range.  Sorry if you don't like that I am a part time
> smith, but how many of our members are just that?   I can't believe that I
> am the only one who can't make it as a full time smith.  Or who didn't find
> out about smithing before another direction was taken in my life.  Whatever,
> the fact is that I am not going to worry about attending something that
> takes a full weeks (at that time) pay to get in the gate.
>
> Rick Crawford at Smoky Forge
> Home of Lem the Wonder Mule and
> Mol ASS es the slow Donkey
> in the middle of Northern Illinois
>
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