While all the bills from the show are not in yet, the club still decided to send in $5,000.00 to HCA for their general operating fund. The rest will be presented to HCA at the Convention in June. Thanks again to everyone who helped make this years show a success.

News from sickbay has the Husted’s up and about, great news to all of us who were worried about them. I haven’t heard anything about Dick Schwan, but maybe one of my Heisey Spies can find out how he is doing at the convention, and I will pass it on.

This month’s program will be on our plans for the Library’s Display Case in August. Sherry Warren is in charge of the display for the club, and we need your ideas. Please bring any Heisey you would like to have in the display case to the May meeting.

I used to read the Heisey Glass Newscasters and laugh at Clarence Vogel when he wrote about how hard it was to find Heisey glass back in the early to mid 1980s. Well I can only imagine what he would have said if he could have joined me on my trip to Kutztown, and Adamstown, PA, this past weekend.  First I went to Kutztown, and even though it was threatening rain, there was still a good turnout of dealers for the Extravaganza. Even with all of those dealers, the Extravaganza was pretty much a bust!  What ever Heisey there was, was over priced. Then I went to Adamstown, and there was Maezene Walker leaving the very first place I went to. If that wasn’t bad enough, she had Frank and Michelle Scott, from North Carolina, with her. Then bringing up the rear was Jack. How was I going to find anything after they had already cleaned out the town? Well, I did find a few small things, but I could hardly walk the next day. The next day I went to the DC Big Flea, and would you believe, the Walkers beat me there, and as you can imagine, I found nothing.  Now I know how Mr. Vogel felt all those years ago!

See ya at the next meeting,