In a message dated 04/12/2001 8:35:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, schwerin@unm.edu writes: << WHITNEY-L@rootsweb.com >> I agree. Being from Oregon, and having visited Massachusetts in the fall, the weather was wonderful at that time. Maybe taking a further poll would be helpful. I would be in favor of the fall. If it's too late to give an opinion this is understandable as the people working on this asked for opinions some time ago and I procrastinated and failed to respond. Thankyou, Rebecca Whitney-Smith, Oregon