Hey yall, With the Homecoming just around the corner we need to have a heart to heart... I have been very conservative on the overhead.. got the room free... when for a different room they were gonna charge us..trying to get information for you to be ready to hit the street Friday morning has cost me.. not all the counties gave me the information. Needless to say it is also a learning experience and a great deal has gone into making sure y'all have maps and making long distance phone calls and stamps ..posterboard..stuff. Some reimbursement is in order and might not be a bad idea plan for this same problem next year when we go at this again. The total expense will be about $100.00 ... I had to so some very creative thinking to keep it there.. (So just the math--- 50 people would pay $2.00 apiece ... but, $4.00 would get us a fund for next year...) Here is the idea Jan and I have come up with.... (unless you want me to just pass the hat) Heck I might make a profit if I do that!! Proposal: a "Tennessee Treasure" table at this shindig and sell chances for a dollar apiece for the drawing to get one of these dandy things... now here is how we might get the goodies...we all have talents no matter where we hail from now, right??? The descendents of middle Tn. have it in their blood.... never met a one who was not either a craftsman, an artist, a musician, a storyteller, or a danged good cook! This is Jan's contribution: Five prints of "Worth Remembering" (a limited edition print by our one and only..Jan many years ago of items from a one-room schoolhouse in Stewart Co.), a homemade video of gen-u-ine sorghum molasses making, a commitment to oil paint within two months the homeplace or scene of your choice to do with your genealogy so long as you provide me a photo. Or material pertaining to genealogy... books, cds.... what ever? NOW THEN who on here that is coming or just wants to contribute to the treasure trove ... WHO makes birdhouses or aprons, has a cassette of themselves singin, quilts, makes homemade perserves and jellies, etc. etc. This is a neat fun way to contribute to the expenses already incurred and if we come up over having a fund to begin planning for next year.... at the same time some of us are going to go home with some real treasures and reminders of the nifty craftsmanship and talents of our DC cousins! If you wanna donate, please let us know! Cher and Jan