And so, charged with convincing Eiseley to come to Getaway, I wrote her hermitage. I mightily strove to convince her to leave her anchorite's cell in the mountains and join in good fellowship and music on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. I explained that the tales of non-stop drunken lechery and lust were simply things made up to avoid too many attendees but that they had the opposite effect. I told her...but I think that the list of possible guests was what changed her mind. I told her that Elvis, Princess Charlotte, Cecily Fox Smith, Childe Harold (of Childe's Ballads fame), Texas Maggie, Pecos Bill, Joaquin Murrieta, Ol' Lewd Beethoven, "Filthy" Lucre, and even the New Brunswick Bohran may show up. Here is her response:

I'd love to see everyone! Let me figure out if I can "get away" and go!