Sorry for the delay--

I need to get the final registration file back from the newsletter editor, so I can turn it into a .pdf file and mount it on the FSGW website.

Final word: The cost will be between $125 and $150 for an adult, depending on whether you stay over on Sunday night or not, and whether you're an FSGW member. Children under 18 are less, but how much depends on their age and FSGW member status. The two-day fee includes housing for Friday and Saturday. Friday dinner is a pot-luck, but the fee includes three meals Saturday and two on Sunday. The three-day fee includes Sunday dinner and overnight accommodations on Sunday night and Monday breakfast. All accommodations are on real box-spring mattress beds (never a bunk bed!) in cabins. Flush plumbing and hot showers are within the cabins.

Being an FSGW member gives you a discount, and you can join when you register. It you've got two or more people in your family, you'll amortize your family membership immediately. Membership is $24/year for an individual; $33/year for a family, and includes all sorts of other benefits beyond reduced price at the Getaway, such as a monthly newsletter (an interesting read even if you live at a distance), and free admission to 9 concerts and 2 dances a year, plus discounts at another 150 or so concerts and dances in the greater DC area (okay, it's useless if you live at a distance, unless you visit Our Nation's Capital at some point in the year, but the Getaway discount itself might be reason to join.)

There is plenty of space for all, so joining the FSGW won't increase your chance of getting a place there. Ont he other hand, if you were a member, you would already have received your registration information and form in your August newsletter.

I'll send the detailed info and the registration form to the webmaster to be mounted as soon as I can get my hands on it. (On the other hand, the newsletter editor may be off in Vermont this weekend for the Champlain Valley Folk Festival.)

IN the meantime, go to Southwest Airlines to see what cheap flights you can get for the weekend to Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI)--$222 round trip or less from the West Coast; less than $110 round trip from many places east of the Mississippi--assuming you purchase in advance. The nearest airports to Camp Ramblewood are Baltimore (BWI) and Philadelphia.

--Charlie Baum