The 100th anniversary Tom Swift Convention will be held July 16-18, 2010 at the Sheraton Mission Valley Hotel in San Diego. This is the weekend before ComicCon.
Friday events will include museum tours and possibly tours of the Hotel del Coronado (where Edward Stratemeyer stayed when he visited the 1915 Panama-California Exposition) and a trip to UCSD Geisel Library to see their exhibit of Tom Swift material which is being arranged in conjunction with TS100.
Saturday and Sunday will include sessions with presentations, time to chat, a silent auction, a dinner (Saturday) and a Tom Swift live radio show performance.
We will have space for people to sell series books and related merchandise, including some convention-specific merchandise.
Plan to bring unusual or favorite Tom Swift-related items for a show-and-tell segment which was popular last year in Hammondsport.
Actual registration for the convention will be available soon with options to pay by check or PayPal. Hotel registration is available now. We need to fill 30 room-nights to meet with our agreement to have the convention space on Saturday and Sunday.
As we have more confirmations of speakers and events we will announce them here and on the TS100 web site.
Please RSVP today to let us know you will be coming.
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Hi...and thanks for the info on Harriet Stratemeyer Adams output. I should have used citations, and did include a link that said she produced almost "200 volumes that included most" of the books in the Nancy Drew series. If I am wrong, I promptly will restate that.
ReplyDeleteI don't know where to post this....you have two blogs, and I will copy this to the other one also. We live in the point, and go to estate sales on weekends. The one in Grantville still has several volumes....high acid papers in really cute colors.