I managed to cough up a 114. _________________________________________________ The geniuses at a local radio station and Six Flags over Georgia decided it would be good idea to have a promotion one day last week where everyone would get in for free between 6am-9am. This happened to be Spring Break for most schools around here. Reportedly there were THOUSANDS of parents too cheap to pay for the price of admission who started getting there as early as 2:00am. Soon, traffic was completely grid-locked for all the surrounding interstates and surface streets. Some "Parents" were dropping off their kids on the interstate before dawn hours (ie. in near complete darkness) and let them walk the rest of the way. Nice, no?! If this hadn't happen right here, I would've thought it was all made up. Reminds me of the WKRP in Cincinnati episode where they do a promotion for the station for Thanksgiving!!! Seemed like a GREAT idea at the time. Here is a link that might be useful: Thanksgiving Turkey Drop

Gosh ladies, I was AT this Show the last weekend it was up, it was during the same weekend as my First Guild Show, yes Spring 2011, was weekend of March 26 & 27. I was a volunteer white glove type at this event for several hours, turning quilt corners to show details, but largely protecting them from folks walking in between them & bumping them, as they passed through. The lowest hanging quilts were several feet off the floor, so they were low enough to be bumped into in passing. I can't see YOU TUBE at work, don't know if this Exhibit was explained, described, etc. Short synopsis: it's ONE WOMAN'S collection, I believe it was 450 of them from her collection of 650 of them. This magically staged show was a gift to the woman for her 80th Birthday from her husband (if I recall correctly). She wanted them shown in a grouping all together & while I can't recall the name of the design group who designed & staged the exhibit itself, I assure you their staging of this Show had a huge impact & likely will influence the staging of many future shows. I dislike red strongly, but this Show was just astounding & monumental to see. Wonderful but overwhelming, I went from 3 hrs. of this to being white glove lady at my first Guild Show. Can you imagine how visually overstimulated & then wonderfully exhausted I was? It was a show for the ages, held in a HUGE space called the Park Avenue Armory which was a regimental armory that had been abandoned for some time & then has recently been brought back to life (& is still being restored) which has since been converted into use as a major exhibit venue. One of the perks of being a New Yorker, to see this in person. Oh, BTW it was free another aspect dictated by the Owner, how cool is that???

A great story, Lola. I love the unexpected when traveling. When we took my daughter to college in CO last summer, we caught an exhibit of Hawaiian quilts at the university. I've never seen any, so it was special. I'll always remember strolling through campus and catching the exhibit and the test gardens full of every color of flower and then ending up at an ice cream shop and a quilt shop. What a day....sigh.

Yep. I was working at the New Haven Colony Historical Society as their curator when that theft happened. I can also tell you that just before I took my first job, someone went to the museum that I was going to be working at and had a shopping list with them to steal a number of guns...right off the shopping list for a collector. They caught that guy. When I was working at another institution, someone came in and asked to see a particular ring from the 17th century (yep, late 1600s). It had been donated in the late 19th century (my museum was established in 1865). They were chatting up about how their great aunt so and so donated it.....and I said, well, actually, no. And told them who had donated it. They were stunned....I pointed out that it was great it was in a museum because the number of descendents of the original owner should have numbered over 1,500 or so..(minimum) and at least by having it in the museum EVERYONE had the chance to enjoy it. They agreed, as they would have never been able to see it if it wasn't there. On the other hand, I had someone really upset that they couldn't remove some genealogical materials because THEY were direct descendents...well, heck, they shared that honor with a bajillion others. For some people, it is the covetousness...kind of like that DaffyDuck cartoon where he has the biggest pearl and his quacking "Mine, all Mine!!!!!" I remember him being shrunk and sitting in the oyster shell with his arms around this enourmous pearl.