FSGW Getaway 2006

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: lamarca
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 07:35 PM

I, too, can't get the camp's "Virtual Tour" to work with either Safari or Firefox. Which leads me to an important question... I'll probably need to use my wheelchair this year if we day-trip as we usually do. If the workshops/songswaps are held in the cabin common rooms, will I be able to get in? Will there be an accessible toilet, with grab bars and a seat that's higher than 12" off the floor? Where will the evening concerts be held?

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Fortunato
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 07:46 PM

I don't know the answers to those questions, Mary, but I hope they are favorable to your needs, I'd like to see you there.

best
chance

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 09:08 PM

Mary...Charley's opening post says:

". Most of the buildings are wheelchair accessible, although three of the lodges still aren't."

The whole place is amazingly flat and easy in 'most' places.

I was there, but don't remember the restrooms in detail...we will find out and post the necessary info.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Jeri
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 10:18 PM

Bill, you said it was Java. The link for the cabin says "javascript:cabin()". I dunno. Apparently, the page linked to above was (not completely) copied from http://www.virtualoutfitter.com/tours/westriver/tour.htm. This one works. It's fairly superficial. The cabin looks nice, but there's no view showing whether or not there are steps, or whether the bathrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 10:43 PM

Mary--

I specifically remember the bathrooms in the retreat center having grab bars and being built to ADA specs. I think the restrooms in at least one of the cabins are likewise, and there may have been additional bathrooms the layouts of which have slipped my memory. Evening concerts will probably be in the dining hall (post-dinner-clean-up), and jam sessions will be held all around. Two (or perhaps three) of the cabin common rooms we'll use aren't wheelchair accessible (or weren't when we toured last fall), and we'll have to make sure that the workshops you want to attend are in the accessible places. Given the interchangeability of most of the common rooms, it should be an easy thing to put the ones you want to go to in the accessible ones, providing of course that you can make up your mind which of the too many simultaneous workshops you want to be accessible.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 27 Aug 06 - 10:59 PM

Yay Jeri--
The virtual tour link works for me too.

For others who can get it: "Waterfront" scans around the camp. The building beyond the gazebo and grill is the retreat center. The building with the big windows and the sign of the cross next to "West River" is the dining hall. My guess is that the dock can accommodate those wishing to sail to camp.

"Cabin" shows the common room of one the lodges. There are five such common rooms. If memory serves, the doors on either side of the water cooler lead to bathrooms. The other doors lead to short corridors on either side off of which are 4 bedrooms each. The extreme right edge of the pan is the front side of the building, with an entry porch and the main entrance door.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 12:00 PM

Wow - thanks Jeri, for posting that. It looks like a lovely site!

Dan Schatz

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 02:18 PM

Great, Jeri...that works. Glad you sorted out where it was supposed to go!(I see we are both right...it's a javascript link to a Java applet. My original attempt said "applet not found"....I guess the link was misnamed or something)

Not a terribly enlightening 'tour', but it does at least give the flavor of the view and the cabin interior

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM

Are there any rooms for singles or couples?

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Susan A-R
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 04:34 PM

Well, I'll either have sold the Kitchen and be temporarily rich and unemployed and come, or I'll not have sold it and need a break badly and come, so either way . . . I haven't looked into flights yet, I brought my fiddle as carry on on Aerlingus last week to Ireland and had no trouble. It's probably more dependent on currant carry on policy of your particular air line and size of instrument. One of the guys I was travelling with checked his guitar. He got an official Taylor shipping box, reinforced it at the corners, padded it well, checked it and it was fine (quite large, but fine)

Looking forward to singing until all hours.

Susan

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 05:06 PM

Re: rooming for singles and couples:

As almost every room has four beds, and it will be quite crowded this year, your best bet is to figure to which other single people or couples you'd like to share with. We can pretty much guarantee single sex rooms, if desired, and we can certainly put two compatible couples together.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 05:45 PM

note...the actual 'bedrooms' are pretty small. Room to stow yer stuff in the corner and change clothes, but certainly not a gathering place.

   It will be a bit like some of the smaller rooms at Ramblewood, only 'cleaner', two level, and WARM!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: karen k
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 09:10 PM

I'm really hoping for a single room. Begging actually.

karen

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 09:14 PM

Susan - can't wait to see and play with you!
SINS

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Amos
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:35 PM

What's a single sex room? Is this some kind of code word?

A

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 28 Aug 06 - 10:38 PM

A single sex room contains only men or only women.
Perhaps I should have called it a single-gendered room?

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Janie
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:37 AM

Hurray Susan!

Ooh missed seeing you last year.

Charlie--(and/or Joe et. al.) I'm wondering, would this thread best be left to deal with logistics, requests, program, etc? That might keep important information more accessible. Another thread could be started for peoplw to Check in, communicate more directly with each other. commisserate, dream about.

Or not.

Just an idea to consider.

Janie

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:57 AM

Thanks for the zoom of the area Bill D. I could navigate the twists & turns but my baby brother said stealing his boat wasn't written into the Bible or the Constitution so it'd have to be "over his dead body". Bye-bye baby brother.

I'll be looking to car pool with anyone willing, going from NH or Boston & back again. At least 3 days longer doesn't matter. Can share all expenses & driving. Yes, I can drive now, again? The Dr.s said that I'm medicated now so it's ok or was that I'm ok now that I'm medicated or was it I'm ok to medicate?

Barry

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Fortunato
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 10:44 AM

I think you're ok any way you emphasis it, Barry, me lad.
best chance

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: GUEST,Mike Miller
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:21 PM

I am having trouble clicking into your Getaway website. I haven't been there for years but I would like to attend this time. Would one of you guys e-mail me with fees and such? I thank you.

      Mike Miller   [e-mail]

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:53 PM

Mike -- The very first post in this thread, from Charlie Baum, has a link directly to the registration form, which includes all the info about costs, etc. Did you try that? Probably easier than trying to get to it from the FSGW site. Let us know if that doesn't work for you.

Nancy

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: MMario
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 12:53 PM

he can't open the pdf.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 01:34 PM

I arrive Boston [Logan airport] on 1st Nov, I intend to stay overnight in a local hostelry, and then pick up a hire car on the 2nd. I then intend to head south stopping off with Big Mick in Noo Joisey en route.
Don't know how or if this fits in with the plans of others, but I shall be on my lonesome.
Giok

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 02:27 PM

I've e-mailed Mike Miller the requested information, and can do so for anyone else who is having problems, but it would be helpful if you (and Mike) would let me know what platform and browser you're using so I can try to fix the malfunction.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Carly
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 12:15 PM

Janie, it's a good suggestion, and, in fact, we have started another thread just for programming comments and suggestions.

The programming cammittee really does pay attention to your input, so please check out the FSGW GETAWAY 2006 PROGRAM INFORMATION thread if you have ideas or constructive criticism regarding workshops, concerts, etc.

Carly

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: lamarca
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 04:23 PM

Making it a blue clicky:

FSGW Getaway 2006 Program Information

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Carly
Date: 01 Sep 06 - 04:14 PM

Thank you, Mary.

Carly

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Naemanson
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 01:21 AM

Sigh, is it that time again? So much has happened since that lovely trip. Wakana and I had such a good time. I don't know when we'll be able to return. Definitely not this year, probably not next year either. I hope it isn't too long.

I wish all of those who go have the best time ever. I hope the new site is great and the weather is incomparable. Good luck to you who do the work and those who will enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 02 Sep 06 - 09:55 PM

Looking forward to the Getaway!

Especially since, a few grueling business trips notwithstanding, I'm not working 60+ hours a week and pulling my hair out like I was last year. I had a reasonably OK time, but not as good a time as previously. Because I'd been working so much OT and was generally distracted, I hit the Getaway woefully unprepared and under-practiced, plus was so exhausted I pretty much crashed out after the Saturday night concert.

This year I should be able to concentrate on polishing off old songs and hopefully even learning some new ones! Also might even not turn into a pumpkin at midnight...

-- Gary

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: skarpi
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 11:24 AM

Hallo all , I am sorry to say that I am not gonna be able to come
to this Getaway , there a number of reasons like I am selling my house
and getting a new one and my work is at this point alot for next 5-6
months.

I hope every one have a good time out there and enjoy it, I´ll
miss seeing you all ,

all the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 12:00 PM

Skarpi! That's a real shame! We will raise a glass to you. Look forward to seeing you next year then.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:00 PM

!hserfer

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SussexCarole
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:19 PM

So......what would you like us to bring from across the pond for your silent auction? We already have a few surprises.....but is there a special Brit chocolate or other treat you couldn't resist?

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: lamarca
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:26 PM

Uncle Joe's Mint Balls, Carole! Teresa Tooley gave us a tin of them the first time the Shellbacks came over, and I've become addicted to them... I don't think the airport police will classify them as a liquid or a cream, but the metal tin might make them nervous...

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SussexCarole
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 05:29 PM

Them's from 'up north' but I'm sure I can get you some.. no problems!   Anything else????

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 06:21 PM

Midchuck-
I severely doubt that NOMAD permits drinking, either.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Maryrrf
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 09:29 PM

Carole - Bring us some Yorkshire tea. This Yorkshireman I know keeps bragging about it and I want to know what is so special about it. Umm, but now that I think about it Wales is pretty far from Yorkshire. Oh well, if you happen to come across some...

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Janie
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 11:05 PM

Carole,

Something small that is quinsentially (spell?) Welsh?

And if you got 'em, your CD.

Janie

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Carly
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 01:18 PM

Carole,

Will the airlines let you carry cheese? Real Cheshire cheese is one of my favorite things, and it is hard to come by here, and hideously expensive when found. If I have to pay a fortune for the priviledge, I would be much happier knowing that the money will go to bring good folks to next year's Getaway! Or is there some amazing Welsh cheese that we never even see here?

In any case, I'm looking forward to seeing you.

Carly

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SussexCarole
Date: 09 Sep 06 - 01:58 PM

Cheese....oh yes...we have amazing story about bringing cheese back from Australia....I think the custome oficer in Oz is still licking his wounds!    Cheese it is no matter what!

x

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:38 PM

Carole - check on permitted items on the internet. I have a feeling that cheese may be on the banned list.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 03:51 PM

"That artisan cheese from Italy may be a snap to find and buy on the Internet, but U.S. Customs and Border Protection could seize your purchase because certain regulations prohibit the importation of dairy products from particular countries without a permit."

Check first.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:31 PM

Cheese? I have a lovely cheese plate for Judy Cook - heh heh. Thought I would forget your gift, did you?

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: CET
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 05:43 PM

I'm fairly certain cheese is prohbiited. You don't want to run afoul of the cheese beagle.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Tinker
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:01 PM

Hmmm I wonder if a copy of the Ladies Review on PC CD Rom would get any action in the auction ?????

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 06 - 06:22 PM

some one brought ME cheese from England a couple years ago....but maybe the rules have changed.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: SussexCarole
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 02:54 AM

Some info I have found says that soft cheese is prohibited but hard cheese is OK! I'll check & make sure. I can't wait to make the visit to the cheese stall in Swansea market.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: lamarca
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 03:57 PM

Oh, the hard cheese of Old Eng-a-land,
In Old Eng-a-land, very hard cheese...

(lyrics by L. Barker, as sung by Martin Carthy, accompanying himself on his six wire cheese slicer on Oranges and Lemmings, the Mrs. Ackroyd Band...)

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: Severn
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 04:07 PM

Carole, you are a Friend In Cheeses, indeed (and in word)!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2006
From: kendall
Date: 11 Sep 06 - 04:11 PM

I know for a fact that elephant meat is forbidden. (100)