ABANA Affiliate Liaison Letter,
December 2004
We received a nice note from Arron Holding. He is the winner of the VIP prize for simply sending in his Board Election ballot. He won $350 worth of Tom Tongs and he is busy putting them to good use as he forges some Christmas presents. Chris Holt of PAABA sent in her addition to the "Must See Ironwork" project. If you visit the Affiliate Locater image map here: http://magichammer.freeservers.com/abana_image_map.htm and click on PA, then scroll down to the Pittsburgh Area Artist Blacksmiths Association you will find the link to the pictures of 'must see ironwork' in that area. Other participants are, West Virginia (WV) and Capital District Blacksmiths (NY). I want to encourage all of the Affiliates to take part in this project. Simply send me pictures and location information about public ironwork or sculpture or anything metal related that your area is proud of and would like to show off to the world. The ABANA web site http://www.abana.org is your web site and you can provide better content than anyone else. We have areas for galleries, classified ads, events calendar, links of all sorts, discussion forums and news. Remember that LeeAnn and I are both on a dial-up connection so please save your images with titles, descriptions and stories to a CD and mail it to the PO Box listed above. Also, please provide day time contact information in case we need to clarify something within your submission. Last but far from least, start making your plans NOW to attend the 2006 ABANA Conference in Seattle, Washington http://www.abana.org/membership/conference/index.shtml or www.abanaseattle2006.com check back often for updates. Have a great Holiday season!
Dave Mudge, Affiliate Liaison
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