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  • From: Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp <hoosiergardener@earthlink.net>
  • To: gardenwriters-on-gardening <gwl-g@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [gwl-g] GWA symposium
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:24:40 -0500

Here's my take on the GWA meeting on Long Island.

I thought it was one of the weakest GWA conference I attended and I've gone to six or seven, as well as Perennial Plants conferences and other garden-related symposiums.

1. Our bus captain told us not to leave forehead and fingerprints on the glass windows of the houses we were visiting. She was not joking, and that was insulting.
2. One neighborhood called the police because the buses were making too much noise. It made me feel unwelcome.
3. After riding on the bus for 1 1/2 hours, we arrive at Robert Dash's garden only to be told we had 15 minutes there, because we were running late.
4. I thought we visited too many nursery/growers and not enough gardens.
5. I thought several of the speakers were weak, including the keynote speaker and the speaker who was going to tell us about writing year 'round. Some of the better speakers were cut short because the sessions or their talks ran long.
6. The banquet was a disaster. People were still getting served at 10 p.m....the kitchen complained that no one was taking the vegetarian dishes and they had to prepare more meat dishes. However, at my table, the guests were told there was no vegetarian plate, so they took the meat dishes and ate the veggies.
7. The hotel was adequate. None of the arrow buttons worked on the elevators, so you never knew which way the cars were going. And when I asked about mailing a package from there, I was told the desk would help me. When I went to the desk a few hours later, it was a new crew and I was told I had to go to the post office.

So, I left New York with all of my stereotypical notions in intact.

Nonetheless, I would like to thank Long Island GWA members for stepping up to the plate and taking on the conference. I know they did it on a short time line because another city couldn't follow through with its intention to have the GWA conference there.

jems

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Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
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