The New Yorker website offers a baldly factual report on last weekend's Int'l Wizard of Oz Club convention in Fayetteville, Manlius, and Syracuse, New York. This blog entry won't appear in the printed magazine.There was also a documentary filmmaker there, so footage might surface on the Smithsonian Channel next year. (I didn't even know there was a Smithsonian Channel.)
Because this convention fell during the school year, the attendance was all grown-up, as the NYer's correspondent noted. Kids often come to Oz Club events in summer. Indeed, I attended my first club gatherings as a young teenager, and they were my first experience of interacting with adults who treated me as a peer, for which I'll always be grateful. So I'm sorry young people couldn't have such experiences at this month's convention, but it was fun for me and other "considerably older" folks.
I went to the Munchkin Convention pretty regularly when I was in high school, but haven't had as much of a chance since then. I considered going to the Fayetteville convention, but I didn't really want to make the drive all the way up there. Is there going to be a Munchkin Convention in 2009?
ReplyDeleteThere is a Munchkin Convention planned in 2009, in greater Syracuse rather than (as until a few years ago) greater Philadelphia. It will take place on the first weekend in August.
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