No sooner did it seem like the Christmas tree went up than May came, and has almost  gone. I would have said, “Christmas tree came down,” but some may still have a tree up with Easter eggs or other decorations. Heck, you may even have just thrown a sheet over it in January, and left it as is until next year!

In any event, I must admit to having run short of the time and energy I had last year in getting the McGinnis reunion together. (Of course, I was unemployed last year – which helped with whole spare time thing).  I apologize for the late start this year, but hopefully we can pull something together. At last year’s reunion, we tentatively agreed to July 17th as the date for this year’s event. I would like to try and get an idea of how many people are interested and plan to attend so we can move forward with making the arrangements. With those arrangements, I would like to ask for a volunteer (or volunteers) to help secure a location once we figure out some rough numbers. Ideally, that volunteer would be local to the area. I don’t suppose that it has to be near the James McGinnis farm, if widening the possibilities makes thing easier to do.

If there are only a few of us – it may be easier to just meet up for a lunch and conversation than drag out all the picnic equipment. If there are a large number – we might consider getting a bigger facility than last year – especially in the case of rain. Although the price of last year’s place would be hard to beat!

So please drop me a line and let me know:

1) If your clan plans to attend, and how many

2) If you would be willing to help set the arrangements once we have an idea of numbers.

I am also sending this out via email, as well as posting this to the facebook group. The only people who might not get the message are Bob and Mame Gartley, and Bruce Schneider – so please pass the info on to them if you can.

I’ve had no new research updates, and as a result of being busy and not having anything new to add – the newsletter has been idle. Hopefully I can dig up some new stuff over the summer, recap some of the old stuff, and get a new issue out!

Please spread the word, and I hope to hear from you.

Chris