Edugaytor and other Michiganders!
Congratulations on really getting Letterboxing going in the beautiful
state of Michigan. Your enthusiam will thrill others.
You've heard the Field of Dreams cliche. Build it and they will come.
Just throw out the date, get the thing together and folks will show up
and you'll have hella letterboxing fun meeting folks and sharing
stories. We've had a few gatherings in the Pacific NW and whoever can
show up usually does.
A must for this sort of thing is an event stamp for your gathering.
This is a one-day stamp to commemorate your special letterboxing
experience. Only those who attend will be able to stamp in and cherish
the memories and capture the stamp image in their personal logbooks.
I've carved three event stamps before. One for a gathering in April
2001. The event stamp was of Mt. Hood. One for a gathering when
LoneMassWolf graced us with his fine presence in November of 2001. That
stamp was the silouette of a howling wolf within the outline of the
state of Oregon. The one for a sparsely-attended, but delightful get
together near Seattle in March of this year was a stylized version of
the Space Needle. It is really fun to design and carve these stamps in
anticipation of a REALLY GREAT TIME, which, I hope you have next month.
Good luck and enjoy yourselves!
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca
First Annual Michigan Gathering
8 messages in this thread |
Started on 2002-07-10
First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: (edugaytor@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-07-10 00:40:33 UTC-04:00
Okay, we've got 2! And I'm sure I can coer -- er, convince my letterboxing pals Emily (see "Secret Garden", just posted, her first!) and Margaret to come along, so that makes 4. We could perhaps meet at Kensington for our first annual(?) gathering, a pretty centrally located park. I know people usually make some stamps and hide/hunt some boxes at these gatherings. Can anyone out there give us a clue as to how to organize our first gathering and all the logistics involved? HELP!
Ed
Ed
Re: [LbNA] First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: (paisleyorca@webtv.net) |
Date: 2002-07-10 03:42:48 UTC-07:00
Re: [LbNA] First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: (edugaytor@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-07-10 16:02:33 UTC-04:00
Thanks, Amanda, for the encouragement and info. I hope our enthusiasm is contagious, I'd love to see MANY more Michiganders out stamping in the woods and setting out more boxes for those of us who have already become LbFs! -- that's Letterboxing Fanatics! for the uninitiated : )
Regarding the event stamp, is it customary for the event organizer just to design a stamp, or does anyone interested in doing so design a stamp and bring it to the event? I remember seeing an online article with pix on a lbxr from the NE Region's site about a gathering they had there, and there were pix of people making stamps. Anyone have any idea exactly what tha process was, how materials were handled, etc.? Sure would appreciate any info/tidbits you can send along. Thanks!
Ed
Regarding the event stamp, is it customary for the event organizer just to design a stamp, or does anyone interested in doing so design a stamp and bring it to the event? I remember seeing an online article with pix on a lbxr from the NE Region's site about a gathering they had there, and there were pix of people making stamps. Anyone have any idea exactly what tha process was, how materials were handled, etc.? Sure would appreciate any info/tidbits you can send along. Thanks!
Ed
Re: First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: Shanphelia (shannon@umich.edu) |
Date: 2002-07-11 08:14:03 UTC
Hi Ed and fellow Michiganders!
I'd love to attend a MI get together! Is there any possibility of
scheduling it before Aug. 1st?
Best,
Shan
I'd love to attend a MI get together! Is there any possibility of
scheduling it before Aug. 1st?
Best,
Shan
Re: [LbNA] Re: First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: (edugaytor@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-07-11 16:37:47 UTC-04:00
I'm afraid not, Shan. Aside from still trying to attract boxers, I'm leaving Sunday for a week-long camping/boxing trip to the Lake Michigan coast and won't have ample time to put anything together in the week after. But don't worry if you can't make it, I'm sure an autumn gathering will follow, perhaps around the weekend before Thanksgiving : )
Regrets,
Ed
Regrets,
Ed
[LbNA] Re: First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: Shanphelia (shannon@umich.edu) |
Date: 2002-07-12 02:52:38 UTC
Thanks, Ed -- not a problem! I hope you all have fun -- it's great
that Michigan is getting more active -- I'm hoping to place my first
box sometime in the next few weeks!
All the best,
Shan
--- In letterbox-usa@y..., edugaytor@a... wrote:
> I'm afraid not, Shan. Aside from still trying to attract boxers,
I'm leaving
> Sunday for a week-long camping/boxing trip to the Lake Michigan
coast and
> won't have ample time to put anything together in the week after.
But don't
> worry if you can't make it, I'm sure an autumn gathering will
follow, perhaps
> around the weekend before Thanksgiving : )
>
> Regrets,
> Ed
that Michigan is getting more active -- I'm hoping to place my first
box sometime in the next few weeks!
All the best,
Shan
--- In letterbox-usa@y..., edugaytor@a... wrote:
> I'm afraid not, Shan. Aside from still trying to attract boxers,
I'm leaving
> Sunday for a week-long camping/boxing trip to the Lake Michigan
coast and
> won't have ample time to put anything together in the week after.
But don't
> worry if you can't make it, I'm sure an autumn gathering will
follow, perhaps
> around the weekend before Thanksgiving : )
>
> Regrets,
> Ed
Re: [LbNA] Re: First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: (edugaytor@aol.com) |
Date: 2002-07-12 11:27:32 UTC-04:00
NEXT FEW WEEKS! Get out there today and plant that box! : ) Looking forward to it.
Ed
Ed
Re: [LbNA] First Annual Michigan Gathering
From: (paisleyorca@webtv.net) |
Date: 2002-07-13 08:40:36 UTC-07:00
Hi Ed!
These gatherings are pretty fun and informal. You, as the organizer of
the event can carve the event stamp or ask someone you're certain will
attend to do it if they so desire. It's a pretty fun deal. I felt
honored when I was asked to carve event stamps in the past.
At the gathering that Thom Cheney put together for us in April 2001,
there was also an Earth Day celebration going on. It was cool. He had
put together blocks of wood with foamcore on it so kids could scratch
out their own "signature" stamps then head out on the trail to find the
many boxes that had been placed ahead of time for the event. He also
had little thumbnail pigment inkpads so they participants could stamp
up and then return them when they got back. Thom, Der Mad Stamper and I
sat and manned the table, to provide explainations, help and enthusiasm.
but we also had our own carving tools and material and were carving away
during the whole thing. It was great fun!
Other gatherings (particularly the ones I plot out) revolve around food,
such as meeting at a buffet pizza joint. At those not much carving went
on, but tons of visiting, exchanging stamped images, and checking out
everybody's logbooks. I think those events have been fairly successful
(especially to me, who loves to stuff my face!)
Back East it looks like they meet at parks or community centers and
carve, exchange stamps, etc.
Anyway...letterboxing gatherings are awesome. You get to match up folks
with their stamps and find out who they are as human beings and talk
about finds and placeds and sometimes you can weasel out some hints on
hard to get boxes. It is so fun. You guys out in Michigan will really
enjoy yourselves, I think.
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca
These gatherings are pretty fun and informal. You, as the organizer of
the event can carve the event stamp or ask someone you're certain will
attend to do it if they so desire. It's a pretty fun deal. I felt
honored when I was asked to carve event stamps in the past.
At the gathering that Thom Cheney put together for us in April 2001,
there was also an Earth Day celebration going on. It was cool. He had
put together blocks of wood with foamcore on it so kids could scratch
out their own "signature" stamps then head out on the trail to find the
many boxes that had been placed ahead of time for the event. He also
had little thumbnail pigment inkpads so they participants could stamp
up and then return them when they got back. Thom, Der Mad Stamper and I
sat and manned the table, to provide explainations, help and enthusiasm.
but we also had our own carving tools and material and were carving away
during the whole thing. It was great fun!
Other gatherings (particularly the ones I plot out) revolve around food,
such as meeting at a buffet pizza joint. At those not much carving went
on, but tons of visiting, exchanging stamped images, and checking out
everybody's logbooks. I think those events have been fairly successful
(especially to me, who loves to stuff my face!)
Back East it looks like they meet at parks or community centers and
carve, exchange stamps, etc.
Anyway...letterboxing gatherings are awesome. You get to match up folks
with their stamps and find out who they are as human beings and talk
about finds and placeds and sometimes you can weasel out some hints on
hard to get boxes. It is so fun. You guys out in Michigan will really
enjoy yourselves, I think.
Best regards,
Amanda Briles
The Paisley Orca