Re: [gwl-g] GWA symposium

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the directions not to leave forehead prints, etc. came from the homeowners, not anyone at GWA. our captain read a statement from the owners saying they were happy to share, etc. but would we please observe certain restrictions. my bus treated the whole thing as a joke and kept laughing about it through the rest of the afternoon. of course, it was insulting, but it was the owners who were being insulting, and of course, the bus captains had to follow through and read their requests. Carolyn Ulrich
On Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 09:29 AM, Lon Rombough wrote:

gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org is where these comments should be. I personally don't care if you post them here, but it's pretty silly considering that this list has only about half the number of members as the parent, Gardenwriters List, so you're not going to get the response you would on the Gardenwriters List.
-Lon Rombough

On Sep 30, 2004, at 7:24 AM, Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp wrote:

Here's my take on the GWA meeting on Long Island.

I thought it was one of the weakest GWA conference I attended and I've gone to six or seven, as well as Perennial Plants conferences and other garden-related symposiums.

1. Our bus captain told us not to leave forehead and fingerprints on the glass windows of the houses we were visiting. She was not joking, and that was insulting.
2. One neighborhood called the police because the buses were making too much noise. It made me feel unwelcome.
3. After riding on the bus for 1 1/2 hours, we arrive at Robert Dash's garden only to be told we had 15 minutes there, because we were running late.
4. I thought we visited too many nursery/growers and not enough gardens.
5. I thought several of the speakers were weak, including the keynote speaker and the speaker who was going to tell us about writing year 'round. Some of the better speakers were cut short because the sessions or their talks ran long.
6. The banquet was a disaster. People were still getting served at 10 p.m....the kitchen complained that no one was taking the vegetarian dishes and they had to prepare more meat dishes. However, at my table, the guests were told there was no vegetarian plate, so they took the meat dishes and ate the veggies.
7. The hotel was adequate. None of the arrow buttons worked on the elevators, so you never knew which way the cars were going. And when I asked about mailing a package from there, I was told the desk would help me. When I went to the desk a few hours later, it was a new crew and I was told I had to go to the post office.

So, I left New York with all of my stereotypical notions in intact.

Nonetheless, I would like to thank Long Island GWA members for stepping up to the plate and taking on the conference. I know they did it on a short time line because another city couldn't follow through with its intention to have the GWA conference there.

jems

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