Hi Heads. Just got back from Shady Lane. It is the camp that belongs to my uncle John Pat, where we will have a Letterhead Meet next August 19-20-21. Here is John Pat Himself. If you take I-80 to Emlenton PA, then get onto Route 208, you end up at a place called Lisbon. It's off the beaten path. The gate opens onto a lovely little camp. A gazebo would make a perfect place for Joe Chips to teach cool carving stuff! Whaddaya say, Joe? The pavillion would be a great panel jam area. There's even a stage for an impropmtu Letterhead speech or concert! ....to be continued....
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Here is the bunkhouse which can sleep up to 14. This tank supplies the water for the flush toilets (I painted it a few years ago) We can all get a shower too (not together tho) The porch is where the meals are cooked. Around the camp is plenty of room for camping and RVs.There is a whole nuther field for tenting out in too! ......to be continued....
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
We can all jump on the trailer.... take a ride down this road.... to the banks of the Mighty Allegheny. You can take the pause that refreshes at the spring on the one-mile trek back up the hill... Sound like fun? More details will follow. I think my sister June must have been sneaking around the camp....she left a little calling card. Love....Jill
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Where ya putting the infamous roundtable? Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
I dunno, Kissy....maybe in June's pup-tent? I'll let you choose where. Doesn't this look like a place with potential? Love....Jill
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
wow, that's looks like a awesome place to have big party I mean Letterhead Meet. I love it already.
Posted by Tony McDonald (Member # 1158) on :
Really cool place!!
I hope you're going to tell us that Junes pup tent has pink and white stripes!! Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
Not only does it look like a great place for a meet...it looks like a great place to bring my horses and trail ride in my spare time!? Anyone ever brought horses to a letterhead meet?
Posted by Stevo Chartrand (Member # 2094) on :
Looks like a great place, don't it folks! We're still working on all the info for yins. Stay tuned!
Stevo
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Like the Pittsburgh accent Stevo. Laura, I'd have to ask if it's OK to bring horses. There are a lot of people who ride ATVs in the area...do they spook horses? I know it's OK to bring kids and dogs. Love.....Jill
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Definitely looks like a great location for a meet Jill!!!
Does this mean I will have to agonize over another panel??? LOL
I'll be there when it all comes together Jill. Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
yins!!!! Woohoo, he's starting to speak like he belongs here even.
Grundy, you mean I finally get to meet ya?
What is 'spare time' at a letterhead meet? Is that what those 4 hours a day, every day of the meet, that I waste on sleeping & showering are really called?
The edge will be here in about 2 weeks & maybe I'm getting a bit excited about it (just don't let Rick Bicycle or Ro know that) so I already volunteered to print the official meet deckles. Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
I think anyone considering bringing horses to a meet might think about the poor souls (like me) that are deathly allergic to them...
As far as that free time goes... at a meet? Huh? I never seem to have any but, hey, that's me. Too busy yacking, painting, bs'ing, painting, smoking, drinking, painting, eating, etc.
I am really looking forward to going to this meet. I doubt the Vega will be roadworthy by then so maybe we will have to camp out in the Cruiser. Sounds like a plan to me!
Yins are great to be having this meet. Thank you!
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
Geez Jilly!
Looking good! My kind of meet.
Got a Year to figure out how to get there ... working on it Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
It looks like where I live and ride my horses. Right now I can't take them anyway. I have a 28' 3 horse slant trailer with room for living quarters. Unfortunately no truck right now to pull it.
Posted by faye adele welsh (Member # 4164) on :
jill captured the spirit of this place. i spent the weekend there,also. first time camping for 13 years. i packed up my "body wagon" and hauled 0/2 tanks.this is a place to recapture the song that was lost from my heart/soul for these past years.if this place isn't heaven, i don't know what is. come share a little piece of heaven with jillbeans, you will never forget it... Posted by BOB HINES (Member # 2702) on :
Jill: Keep an eye on Grundy.He is famous for bungie jumping when he visited us at the Maritime Round-up.
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
OOO' I'm skeered o' them pink drawers!!
Thick woods, rivers an' dirt roads . . .
Hey!! You sure you did'nt take them pics in 'Bama??
Jilly!! This looks like a loverly place!! That stage would make a great music jam spot too, lol . . .some mics & stuff a'redy in place . . . Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
What a beautiful spot!! I think it would make a lovely little setting for a letterhead wedding...the gazebo, and the perfect spot for the dance...heck we've got enough musicians for a band!!!
Hmmmmmm, wonder were we could round up a coupla lovebirds..........
heehee hee
Suelynn
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Do we get to have open mike night for joke telling? ....and I have sang at quite a few weddings.... (Well, Suelynn started it!)
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
There is a distinct possibilty that we could be living in Cincinnati by then so we would DEFINITELY come then!!!
Posted by Kissymatina (Member # 2028) on :
Suelynn, you're evil. But that is a great idea....
I can't wait to meet Jane & Bill. Suelynn, you in? We'll have to initiate Jane & hopefully Kimberly into the rountable. And Kimberly, how awesome would that be if you could make it. Man, I'm getting excited over this already.
Posted by Delzell (Member # 1965) on :
Jill, I did wonder too if you were inviting your brother, the preacher.
Panel or wedding gift? What is it going to be?
Just kidding! Tell him to stop sweating.
Seriously, it looks like a great place. Forget all them steps, I choose the tent. I really hope things work out and I can make it this time!
Debbie
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Posted by Gene Golden (Member # 3934) on :
Laura, Anyone ever pinstripe a horse at a Letterheads Meet? That's what I would be more concerned about.
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
I hope you can too, Deb! We could have one heck of a Bachelorette party (with Stevo's permission o'course) and he could have his own bachelor party at the "Body Shop", a strip club about 8 miles away. I'd rather have the Mayor of Letterville do the honors. Yes, my brother is a magistrate. At the picnic I just attended they brought in a priest and he said Mass in the gazebo. But that is totally up to Stevo and I don't wanna push him into anything he's not ready for. Just in case...Jane, can you sing "O Promise Me?" Talked to my uncle and horses are a no-no. I have Wade Swormstedt sending me the Letterville Creed via fax so that we can induct Newbies. Catherine is planning on coming over from Scotland. Bill Berberich is considering leading a dry-brush mural on the back of the T-111 stage. We have a Karaoke dude lined up too. It will be great to hang out with old friends and meet others I've always wanted to be with like Kimberly and the Diaz's. It will be a HUGE honkin panel jam. I'm already excited! Love....Jill
Posted by Gene Golden (Member # 3934) on :
Jill, Can you get there from Gettysburg? If I don't make it to one before next August, this will hopefully be my first meet.
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Well, thanks you guys! If I'm even somewhere close I'll do my darndest to be there!
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
I know I'm BAAAD!! I was just yankin Stevo's chain!
Isn't it fun?
Suelynn (Sorry Stevo!! )
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Gene, certainly you can. Take the turnpike to the Butler exit, get on Route 8, the go thru Butler to Route 38, then onto 208. It will take you about 4 hours. Linnie...I'm hopin' to see you there too! Love....Jill
Posted by Dana Bowers (Member # 780) on :
Yanking Stevo's chain?? I thought that was Jill's job!!
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
45 more days till Edmonton.........
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
so, Jill, your point would be what, then?
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Brooce, I'm sure that you have some idea about my point. Kimberly, if memory serves, when I went to my 1st meet at the Zoo in Cincy in 1994, it was about 6 hours away. Come on over! It's gonna be fun. I promise to be more relaxed than I was at Mars. Love....jill
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
Jill,
looks like a great place for anything! you sure know how to do it up!
sounds like there will be enuf horsin around anyway.
Posted by DONALD THOMPSON (Member # 3726) on :
That stage looks like it ought to have a boy with a banjo pickin a little duelin banjos.
I hope there ain't no hillbillies hangin out down by the creek. Whoever hears "You shore do got a pretty mouth" first had better be able to beat me back to camp. I ain't got to beat all of ya back jus one of ya.
I hope the "Southern Express" can make it.
Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
Jill how would I get to the meet from Canada?Buffalo or Niagra Falls.
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Posted by Mark Neurohr (Member # 2470) on :
Looks like a verrry cool place for a meet Jill!!
Count me in!!
Earnest XOXOXO
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
I'm there!
Rapid
Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
Yay! yay! Glad to see so many interested folks. Randy, if memory serves, I live about 4 hours from Lake Erie. I will look up directions for you because I can't remember if you need I-79 or Route 422 to get to I-80. By next summer I will have a map and everything. I am looking for someone who would be willing to bring and use a heat press so we could have folks buy their own T-Shirts and bring them to be printed. I am trying to keep the entry costs as low as possible. This is an all-family-run place, with unpaid volunteers. The money will go for food and extra port-o-pots and electricity. We are gonna have such fun. Can't wait. Love....Jill
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Randy,
Just come to my house and we will caravan down together. I know how to get there.
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