Susan-Marie, there are always plenty of kids, but it is a forest and you have to be sure someone is keeping an eye on the little ones. We have at least one mom who usually brings craft supplies and ideas, bless her heart. Also if there are enough kids coming, we'll set up a kids' music workshop or two. There are interactive games led by one father, aided by several teen-agers who are veterans of it all, and he holds different sessions for the various age groups.

Everyone, you would do well to bring a warm sleeping bag. I'm also planning on bringing a heating pad or electric blanket if I can (there's electricity in most or all of the cabins.)

Can anyone bring up last fall's threads, including the very nice post-Getaway thread that Roger et al posted? I can't do a forum search any more, sorry.
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I'm going to be the program chair again this year (for my sins) and would love to set up a half-hour or longer Mudcat mini-concert, with each of the out-of-town Mudcat attendees doing a couple of songs. Also, anyone with ideas for a workshop can contact me, especially if you're volunteering to lead it. I can't guarantee we'll have room for everything, but I want to start planning now.

Also, we have Saturday and Sunday night sign-up concerts, (one song and one appearance per person) as well as the daytime workshops and the late-night singing. We try to reserve the Saturday concert for out-of-town people who will have to head for home before the concert starts on Sunday.

There are usually two, three or four sets of workshops, mini-concerts and sing-arounds going during the day. Some favorites are the 2-hour Gospel sing-around on Sunday, drinking songs, sea songs, country & western jam, and a variety of other topical workshops as well as the eternal parking-lot picking which is often done in the center of the various cabin areas, with the fall foliage all around. There's a pond, a stream and small waterfall (It's the "Camp Pleasant" site again, right, Charlie?), lots of trails.

End of commercial for tonight. We love it, hope some of you will too. - Rita F