a picture perfect day for the show.

Speaking of the show we had two

expected participants who did not

show. The first no show was our

commercial food vendor, I guess

we were not important to a vendor

who had not needed to put up any

of his own money. When he bought

the concession from the people

from upstate he contacted me that

they informed him he would be able

to use the deposit from last year to

pay for this year.

The second no show was the Owego

Fire Department. This was a big

disappointment as this left us with

no quick response team if there

was an emergency on the field dur-

ing the show.

Next months meeting, our thank

you dinner at N.V. Depot September

24 at 6:00PM

Our August meeting was our pic-

nic meeting that we held at the

Trout Ponds in Newark Valley, New

York. We had 23 members pre-

sent. As per usual the bring a dish

to pass resulted in something for

all to eat and no-one went away

hungry.

We were able to go over the final

preparations for the car show as

well as make a list of all the lead-

ers of crews and positions to be

filled during the show.

For the second year in a row we

were treated to a driving rain

during the meeting but the pavil-

ion sheltered us enough that

there were no wet heads to my

knowledge. We were all a bit con-

cerned that this rain might signal

another washout for the car

show, but as you all know we had

August Meeting

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September 2012

It’s that time again, our

annual “Thank You Dinner”

is about to happen. We will

be meeting at Newark Val-

ley Railroad Depot. The

date is September 24th at

6:00PM. The menu is Lasa-

gna with salad and desert.

Our relative success at our

car show means that once

again the club will pay the

$12.00 per person cost.

You might notice that this

is the fourth Monday rather

than the normal third. The

Women of the Newark Val-

ley Historical Society al-

ready had another dinner

during the third week and

wanted to be sure to make

our meal special, so they

asked that we give them a

little more time to prepare.

If you are planning to at-

tend, Please call Cheryl or

myself at 607-785-8867 by

September 20 so we can

get a count to the N.V. His-

torical Society for their

information.

past summer, YES SUMMER

IS GONE, it has been a chal-

lenge to find the time for

the newsletter.

As a result of this struggle

to find interesting and

timely subjects, I invite you

all to consider creating

your own stories for inclu-

sion. Don’t worry about the

neatness or spelling,

Cheryl corrects me all the

time. Send your story and I

will print it.

This Is Your Newsletter

Each month I try to find

new and interesting topics

to include in your newslet-

ter. Sometimes it is more

difficult than others just to

convince myself to even

start. With all that has gone

on in my life during the

September Meeting

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Thank You

Dinner Monday

September 24,

2012 6:00PM

Good

Food !

The song came out many

years ago, some of you will

remember; “Oh it’s a long

long time, from May to De-

cember. But the days grow

short, when you reach Sep-

tember. And the autumn

weather turns the leaves to

flame, but I haven’t the

time for the waiting game.

And the days dwindle down

to a precious few. Septem-

ber, November And these

few precious days I’ll spend

with you. These golden days

I’ll spend with you”

When Maurice Chevalier

sang this romantic song all

the women swooned think-

ing he sang it just for them.

Of course there were oth-

ers who also sang this

song but it still was the

Frenchman who made it so

popular.

Isn’t it a shame that we no

longer have music that can

so perfectly transmit so

strong a feeling? Think

though of the fact that this

song also described life as

we age, not that I admit to

being “OLD”. But I still am

looking for a way to tell our

youth about the time when

life traveled at a slower

pace.

I know there are some of

our members who think of

the difficulty of producing

our car show and think it is

time to discontinue our

efforts to make this event

happen. There was also a

time when I wondered if it

was all worth it.

It’s easy to look for ways to

avoid the tedium of the be-

hind the scene work when

you aren’t sure that you

have accomplished the goal

you were trying to do. Sure

I had many compliments on

our show this year but did

we do what we set out to

do?

As a routine process Bill

Clark, the editor of Antique

Auto News, the newsletter

of Iroquois Region and I

exchange copies of our

newsletter. This month’s

copy of Bill’s newsletter

contained an article writ-

ten by Laura Burd, a 10

year old girl from Vestal.

As luck would have it Laura

had been in one of Cheryl’s

classes that she did last

school year. Bill had other

obligations during our

show and was not able to

attend but he chose to in-

clude the well written piece

that he also gave me per-

mission to copy in our

newsletter.

You will find the coverage

of our show by this young

lady on the following pages

complete with her pictures

and impressions. Laura

obviously had more time to

talk to the car owners than

I had, but the main point of

my musings is that YES,

WE WERE SUCCESSFUL IN

THIS SHOW. Yes, it is nec-

essary for us to continue

as we are still waking our

youth to the beauty of cars

from the past.

President’s Ponderings

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Oh, it’s

A long, long

Time

From May to

December

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What IS This?

A Big Family

Learning

How Cars Were Made

Back In The Day.