[TheForge] Levels of Conferences / Storage on wheels...

[Dave Mudge]

As much as Bob might wish it,
ABANA IS ALIVE !
We are in the midst of re-grouping after a financially unsuccessful conference.
As well as having a new Central Office Administrator coming on line in
a few days (that takes some time for training and LeeAnn is on her way
to train Heather this week)
and I am temporally editing the web site. I have just returned from
the ABANA Central Office in Georgia where I studied the intricacies of
editing the ABANA site. We have some talented young folks on TheBoard
and they have some radical new ideas. We have two excellent
publications and $150k in a trust fund which generates money for
affiliate grants and individual study grants as well as being the
worlds biggest clearing house for information and references about
blacksmithing. Does that sound dead? We just can't pull off a
conference this year. It will be OK.
dave m

On 2/22/07, schade at acegroup.cc <schade at acegroup.cc> wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
>
> > Grover,
> >
> > I think you've come back to square one.
>
> snip
>
> > But forget those details and consider an alternative:  Put all the
> > ABANA equipment into a truck or rig trailer.  Let someone drive this
> > equipment around the country setting up meets everywhere he goes.  26
> > conferences a year, a week long each (including weekends) and 26 weeks
> > of travel time + time off for the driver/blacksmith/conference
> > organizer.  Okay, maybe far-fetched, but a starting point for
> > discussions?
> >
> > Bruce
> > NJ
> >
> >
>
> Bruce,
>
> I think this conversation has been around the block several times.
>
> Now you want to put the whole Abana thing on a truck and drive it
> around?
>
> If it works what you will end up with is what we already have but
> costing more $$. A "rolling group" (instead of affiliates) in every
> corner of the country having regional conferences which we already
> have. All in the interest (apparently) of "saving" Abana.
>
> Abana is dead. It just hasn't sunk in yet. I get no pleasure from this.
> No anxiety either. It's evolution. Abana came about and breathed life
> into blacksmithing. Blacksmithing is now alive and well and can breathe
> on it's own.
>
> The King is Dead. Long Live The King.
>
> Bob
>
>