[Thursday] Steam up wrap up

[Terry Jones]

Hello Tim,

I looked at the calendar and at CAMA's website. They schedule their Fall
Festival on the last full weekend of September. We traditionally schedule
Steam-Up for the Saturday before Columbus Day weekend. This year they were
the same weekend. Not sure how often this calendar fluke will happen. (
someone want to check?)

For 2019 our date should be October 5th and the CAMA Fall Festival the
weekend before.

We probably can let the boiler cool down on this steam-up before planning
the next one but Oct 5th would fit with tradition of the past 20 years or
so.

Terry

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:35 PM Timothy Straw via Thursday <
thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

> I too am quite pleased that things went so well. One thing we have already
> discussed is changing the date. The steam and air tables were sparsely
> populated this year, in part due some exhibitors doing Kent instead of us.
> It was also the Sound Lab reunion In New London some folks went there
> instead. I worked there for 23 years and wished I could be at the luncheon.
> Tim
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 9:25 AM Randall Snow via Thursday <thursday at newsm.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> What a great year at Steam up!
>>
>> All of the volunteers, our own crew, the Boy Scouts, Tom Day and his
>> friends, and our new head chef Steve all deserve a great big pat on the
>> back and a thank you for helping out with such a great day!  Thank you to
>> everyone who helped clean up and break down the day too, we're really
>> blessed to have such a dedicated group.
>>
>> While it's all still fresh in our minds I'd like to try and collect any
>> data possible from the day as it will help with planning for next year.  We
>> have great data on exactly what was sold for food. Knowledge on exactly
>> what came and went in the way of coffee and donuts is much less certain.  I
>> don't know exactly how many donuts were purchased and left over.  Jeff, if
>> you know what the count of boxes was, or simply the dollar amount of the
>> order it would be helpful.  Ken, if you could check with Claudia on how
>> many dozen were left over, and which varieties seem to sell out quickly
>> that would be helpful.  Also, I should have turned the counter function of
>> the coffee pot on so it would keep track of how many pots were brewed. I
>> didn't.  If the new larger cups were used almost exclusively then I could
>> count how many are missing from the case.  Suzy, it would be helpful too to
>> know what you had bought for cream and milk to have that info for next year.
>>
>> Also, any comments that anyone has about what needs improvement or
>> anything particularly good or bad from our visitors would be great to hear
>> about.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Randy Snow
>>
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