TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 02:45 PM

refresh for easy reading about the camp and the 'rules'...

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 12 May 06 - 01:29 PM

"There is Methodist in our madness!"

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 May 06 - 01:19 PM

Thou shalt not get caught!
G.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: Micca
Date: 12 May 06 - 01:15 PM

And Remember the 11th Commandment and keep it

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 May 06 - 11:51 AM

Rita,
I am available to help worry. Give me some topics. Maybe I can organize a booze crew to ensure that no empties appear in the trash.
SINS

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: beardedbruce
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:02 PM

"And the spirited talk has pretty much all been said."

What, no more ghost stories?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:00 PM

Can y'alls FSGWers start the permathread soon so the conversation can get focused more on the logistics and less on the drinking? This thread is (of course) a good one to link people to for the booze news, but if every question on directions renews the booze blooz it will be awful crabby PR! :~) And the spirited talk has pretty much all been said.

~Susan

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: gnu
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:55 PM

Wow... youse guys is fast... thanks.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: kendall
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:52 PM

My family had one reunion at the Baptist church in Machias. Many of the relatives smoked and dropped their butts wherever they chose. We were not welcome after that.
A word to the wise...
You can ride a good horse to death etc.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway Nov. 3-6, 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:35 PM

If you're coming early/staying late, there are lots of Mudcatters in the Washington, DC area. That said, DCA, BWI, and IAD (Dulles) all serve the DC area, and which airport is closest/best depends on whom you're visiting.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Ferrara
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:22 PM

Maybe I should add that I am the designated self-appointed worrier-and-fretter again for this year's Getaway. Last year when Charlie Baum introduced me in the Sunday concert he said that with me on the committee, none of the other members had to worry about a thing -- I did enough worrying for all of us.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: gnu
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:19 PM

Any clones out there care to put the dates in the thread title?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Ferrara
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:18 PM

This is going to get NO sympathy from anyone, and probably no agreement from anyone, but ... minimize drinking if you can is my opinion. (Easy for me to say -- I have a 1 drink maximum these days! Sigh....)

Anyway if you can't do without, EAT YOUR EMPTIES!!!! We will need to have zero tolerance for beer cans, brandy bottles etc in the trash receptacles.

It is awfully hard to find a good camp and IMO if they are really serious about no alcohol there's just a chance we might be personae non gratae in future if they notice it.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 May 06 - 02:09 PM

Thanks, Charlie.

If a person(s) comes to the region a day or two early which town might be the best - meaning central/rich in choice/accessible - one to lodge in?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 11 May 06 - 01:53 PM

Airports: It's 37 miles to BWI airport (Baltimore) and 35.5 to DCA (Washington National). You'll probably get better prices to BWI, but it's pretty close to a toss-up for distance. However, on a Friday afternoon, the roads from BWI to the camp will make for a MUCH easier commute than from DCA, since you won't have to cross any bridges from Virginia.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 May 06 - 01:16 PM

Totally (Tee) off the subject - but I haven't seen it addressed yet: Where is the nearest major airport to West River Camp? I've been in the Bay area but it's a longish piece of water; besides it was years ago.

Time to think about logistics...

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Charmion
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 04:29 PM

... Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine!

I know that's the last line of the chorus of a long Victorian ballad, but that's all I know.

My father was born into a family that had been White Ribbon for three generations; his great-grandfather took the pledge around 1845, and his grandmother was the head of the Women's Christian Temperance Union for the Province of Quebec. Talk about a thankless task!

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Peace
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 04:26 PM

You can do anything you want as long as you don't tell anybody.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Snuffy
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 10:49 AM

Are you dry? Are you dry?
Or will you go to hell, where you will fry?
We are the little group
Who will make the brewers droop
When they hear our battle cry -
Are you dry?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: MuddleC
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 08:00 AM

-I thought a folk event on the Isle of Man during TT race week was too good to believe in,
-you yanks are so advanced in so many ways, 120 types of cookie, Chevrolets that are not euroboxes in disguise, a proper constitution, air-conditioning, Harley-Davidsons and steaks the size of a small english village with the thickness of tony blair & 'GW' combined , even the right to bear arms....but sneakin around with beer in brown wrappers ... at a 'folk' event   aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhh!

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 03:21 AM

Amos and sober in the same sentence, that's new. Of course we all know he hides drink in his coffee☺☻
Giok

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 11:03 PM

oh, yes, Amos...I'm not sure we could live with you totally sober for 3 days...*big grin* (mellow...that's the key!)

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Amos
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 07:00 PM

We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band!
On the Right side of Temp'rance, we now take our stand!
We won't chew tobacco, because we do think,
That people who use it are likely to drink!!

Away, away with rum, By Gum, with rum, By Gum, with rum, By Gum!
Away, away with rum, By Gum, the song of the Temperance Unioooon!

Well, I could squeak through without the whiskey, but I'd prefer not.

A

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 06:30 PM

"Giok, we'll figure out a way for you to drink openly subtly"

an IV bottle, perhaps, with a branch tube near the mouth?

Subject: RE: TotalTeaparty-Getaway 2006
From: Severn
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 06:12 PM

We'd need a better singer than myself to volunteer to lead the workshop, though I'd gladly contribute, and a go-ahead from The Powers-That-Be. Interested parties can PM me snail mail addresses for their tapes. I'd probably be able to cough up a few Country gems for those interested, like "Little Bennie", "The Drunken Driver", "She's More To be Pitied Than Scolded", "Goodbye To Booze" and the like as well. We'll toss this one around a bit....

Any Program Chairman-types lurking out there, perchance?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 05:54 PM

No Ducks! No Charmion! No Mike! GRRRRRRR. Still counting the days though.
Giok, we'll figure out a way for you to drink openly subtly...as subtle as a drunken Scot and his sheep can be anyway.
Which brings up nother point. Where do these people stand on bestiality?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 05:23 PM

A temperance workshop - I like it!

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Rasener
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 05:09 PM

He he
This sort of in an indirect way brings back memories of the time when I was living in Holland.
I had to go to a 2 week crash course on Dutch. It was at a Nunnery somewhere in the countryside. Can't remember anymore.
Anyway, at the end of the lessons for the first day, everybody was dying for an alcoholic drink. The nun in charge of the kitchen, opened the fridge and gave us bottles of beer. We were a bit gobsmacked, but it brought big smiles to our faces.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 04:54 PM

Sign me up, Severn! I think a workshop on the evils of drink would be wonderful fun.

Dani

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 02:28 PM

Brilliant Charmion and Edmund en route to England - let us know when and we'll be ready!

Subject: RE: Get Away With Bootlegging 2006
From: Severn
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 09:40 AM

Is our annual pilgrimage turning into "Decanter Buried Tales"?

If we designate one of the workshops "Faith IN Our Father's Living Still", will they leave us alone, assuming we're supposedly performing hymns? Or maybe ones called "Reports From The Bottlefront", or "In Flask Company" might prove decent covers.

....Maybe some other "workshop" names will come up, too, but I'll be there wet or dry, intoxicated by music and friendship and try to deal the best I can with the existing climate. (Hell, easy for a Maryland boy to say....)

....Meanwhile, I have an LP from 1972 by an official student choral group from the U. of Illinois that I found once in a library sale, "The American Music Group Vol.2-Temperance Music" containing music taken from various temperance magazines from 1878-1915. No booklet of words with it, mind you, but it contains 24 selections with titles like "Tell Mother I'll Vote Dry", "Lillie Of The Snow-Storm", "Wine Is A Mocker", "Bibles And Beer" and "The Dead March Of The Saloon", and I'll be willing to run off tapes for however many might want to lead or participate in a workshop on the subject. More than enough stuff to augment your existing supply of hymns, country weepers and Sally Army ditties with their attendant parodies, and plenty of ammunition for an hour's workshop. PM me if interested, and I'll run some off and send them out at no cost for any who would wish to exploit the situation rather than merely lament it.


Severn


...Hey! Maybe even a 12-Step Workshop--"Songs Of Bill (ab)Staines"?

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Nancy King
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:05 PM

Charmion, I hope it works out so you can come to the Getaway, though a trip to England does sound great.

And I agree with you that alcohol is the least important part of having a good time at the Getaway. The point is the music and the people, and if alcohol eases that, fine (as long as we're discreet...). But we are NOT encouraging folks to get drunk. I'm a bit concerned that some folks who previously have been happy with beer may end up guzzling the hard stuff simply because it's easier to carry around. As Ranger1 notes, creativity is all.

Now, having said that, I gotta make sure I have a couple of empty grape juice bottles to decant my wine into...

Nancy

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Micca
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 03:35 PM

WoW!! Charmion, if a trip to England is on the cards let us know, you have somewhere to stay in London if you need it!!

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Charmion
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 03:00 PM

I find that alcohol is the least important part of having a good time at the Getaway, and I'll bet I'm not alone.

I may not be able to go this year. Edmund and I are talking about a trip to England, and if we do that I'll have to do a passel of overtime if I'm to make the Getaway as well. Edmund gets much more leave than I do, so he will be able to go -- unless work gets immovably in the way of course.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: ranger1
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:16 PM

Well, I was pretty good at being sneaky in college. Since I had spent a lot of time in Europe with a legal drinking age of 18, I wasn't about to go back to being a teetotaler for another three years. It's amazing what one can do with a bit of creativity...

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:04 PM

Sadly with or without alcohol we will not be getting to the Getaway again. Last year was a one off since I had just been made redundant. If I manage to get a new job I won't be able to take time off (as a teacher can only have school vacations). If Idon't get work then we won't be able to afford to come - oh well maybe when I retire in 2022!

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:55 AM

Two passels might suffice, knowing this crowd.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Dani
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:33 PM

I found a place that sells these great 'lady' flasks with vintage contact paper on them. Really cute. Shall I bring a passel?

Dani (all for rules, but..... )

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 06:41 PM

we are sure HOPING to get back to an earlier date! Heat is nice, but Nov. is a bit awkward for some..(Rita & I are into crafts season heavily by that time.) Some of these camps have the best dates scheduled years in advance. (If we want to go back to Prince William Forest park, limit the attendance to about 135, and have no heat, and have to find cooks, I suppose we could ...*grin*)

It's a case of
comfort
time
price
booze
....choose any two.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:13 PM

Once again, I must miss this fabulous weekend Getaway. November is when I travel out to the Aleutians for work. Any chance the getaway will return to an October setting in 2007?

Missing you already,
Mike

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: skarpi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:54 PM

Hey Giok , just meat me at the Keflavík airport like last time
we´ll be there .

just a about time to get the ticket .

All thebest Skarpi Iceland, oh and I have to hide the Brennivín
hahahaha , but I don´t feel guilty.

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Nancy King
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:30 PM

Well, Giok, I hope you decide to make the scene -- we'd sure love to see you again. Yeah, it's nicer not to have to have to hide the bottles, but we all managed to deal with it for over 35 years before we went to Ramblewood, and even managed to have a pretty good time of it. I think other advantages of the new place will outweigh the need for discretion.

Susan, I believe West River Camp is handicapped-accessible. Any chance you and the Mr. can join us this time?

Nancy

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:10 PM

Giok, you don't need to.

~S~

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:08 PM

Well I am in two minds about coming again, I just don't like the idea of having to 'hide' my bourbon or whatever. I'm not an inherently honest person, and I don't object to a bit of subterfuge, but I don't like feeling guilty, when I don't need to.
Giok

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:06 PM

Problem is, in the Wash DC area, the places that DO allow a bar or 'open' privileges are way too expensive. There are so many rich corporations about that not many camps are willing to settle for the lower end market that we are in, and those which are tend to be State Parks and Boy Scout camps which have a NO alcohol rule....and yes, it is quite evident that the UK does have a bit more 'enlightened' attitude in general. Camp Ramblewood was as interesting exception....

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Amos
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 12:08 PM

Yeah, Ms. D, but these folks are just raising the bar a little... :D


A

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 12:03 PM

Can't imagine a folk event ever getting off the ground in the UK without a bar!

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 11:58 PM

Thank you very much, Most Noble Sir Know-It-All. I've got it on my calendar. I'll be there.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 11:15 PM

It's good we're going to have heat!

I think I can still manage a top bunk. At the rate I'm expanding, no one may wish the bottom!

Subject: RE: TT Getaway 2006
From: GUEST,FSGW know-it-all
Date: 19 Jan 06 - 11:08 PM

The dates: November 3-5 (and on into the 6th), 2006