We've been getting great feedback on attendance. Of course sometimes plans change.....but, we have heard from Ric Fish in New Orleans, Al Smith who will be leading a group of merry men car-pooling up from Delaware Co. in PA, Shawn Lawler in Chicago, and others. We have posted a list of motels on the Delphi Forums run by Chris Hayes, but we may as well post that here, too:
the top of the pile would appear to be Hampton Inn at 135.00
other motels for March Madness:
Comfort Inn, cost about 120.00
Quality Inn, perhaps 90.00
Red Roof, about 75.00
and, others are lower in cost, but...
...you usually get what you pay for, and YMMV.
all of these are within about 10 minutes of the Elks Club.
if you go to www.tripadvisor.com and search for "West Springfield, Ma", a map pops up on the right.
click on the map, and you can see Morgan Rd. running east-west just under Interstate 91. the Elks Club is at 429 Morgan Rd.
all of these motels are in the Riverdale Rd. area, near the intersection of Interstate 90 and 91.
also, Buffy Groves says:
"I stayed at the Wilbraham Inn near Roger's place (Roger lives in Springfield). Last year it was $75/night".
Because I am contact person, I get many calls and emails.
Here's the scoopa de la poopa. THE DETAILS of the event
are here in this post.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME, and there is no pre-registration.
you just pay at the door between 8:15 and 9.
The first program is at 9.
More news: the surgery for Roger was successful and he has
already emailed me. Cliff Hayes is planning on using his
camera to project a "jumbotron" on the wall or screen so
people can actually see Larry Bird, oops, I mean Larry
Cohen, tawlk about how to anticipate and solve problems
with touch-up before they drag you down to perdition.
This includes not only seam coloring but also minor
annoyances such as fingernails nicking the corners of
sensitive goods and causing a last-minute panic of how
to make tiny blemishes disappear. It sounds simple but
Larry is a master paperhanger and his bag of tricks is
going to surprise and delight you.
The sound system provided by Howard Hamm, ye wandering
troubadour, will ensure that people in the 7th row can
hear, despite the enthusiastic re-cap of the Super Bowl
that will be carried out in the 5th row by those lunk-heads.
More news to come!
To get a load of the 80-plus posts on the Delphi Forum
about March Madness, hit this link here.
