This may seem like an unreasonable request :-) but I'd like to give you guys an invitation to think of yourselves as coming to the Getaway first and to a Mudcat reunion second. There will be workshops led by people you never heard of and haven't met on Mudcat. I urge you to check them out too.

I would like it a lot if I hear afterward that all of you met and spent a bit of time talking to some of the non-Mudcatters at the Getaway. It's only a weekend and there are just so many minutes and you're going to want very much to maximize the time you get with other Mudcatters but ... it's a Folklore Society event and there will be Folklore Society people and other non-Mudcatters there including some very talented and interesting people, and we like everybody to make friends with everybody.