Fellow blogger and all around good guy, KE9V, has written a short review of Hamvention’s new digs, the Greene County Fair and Expo Center. I certainly don’t want to steal his thunder, so I suggest that you all go read his blog post. It sounds to me like the Hamvention organizers have chosen a reasonable place to hold the event next year.
In a previous post, I mentioned the inevitable t-shirt. I just bought one. They’re only 19 bucks with shipping. (I should have thought about this myself and put something up on Cafe Press. I still might.)
Another thought occurred to me yesterday. At next year’s Hamvention, some enterprising ham could probably make a few bucks by renting a van or even a school bus and taking folks on a “nostalgic tour” of Hara Arena, if it’s still standing by then.
Here are some things that they could possibly do:
- Highlight the spot where the sewer main broke.
- Have a picnic dinner in the crumbling parking lot. Maybe they could get one of the community groups to grill up some brawurst.
- Operate a special-event station.
Whaddaya think? Got any other ideas?
If Hara is to be torn down between now and Hamvention 2017, I hope that DARA gets their hands on some of the arena seats. I bet they could sell those for beaucoup bucks at the new venue.