The Squeeze-In Organizers
The Northeast Squeeze-In, NESI, was originated by Rich Morse and then hosted for twenty years by the Button Box.
After
Rich's death in 2009 and at the Button Box's request, NESI's
organization has been assumed by a rag-tag bunch of long-time
Squeeze-In
participants.
Sitting
around the table on Sunday at the end of NESI 20110, Our Board (or Round
Table?) meeting in a light momentt. We are, left to right,
- Craig Hollingsworth
- Solveig Overby (a new board member,)
- R.D. Eno
- Tony Hughes (also a new member)
- Toni Clark
- Lynn Hughes
- Bob Beimers
Jennifer is inactive at this time. I (Stewart) am
hiding behind the
camera, always a safe place to be. We had pulled off the move to
Chimney Corners, which turned out to be better in almost every respect
compared to Bucksteep (our previous long-time venue)....and enough people had attended that, Thank
God, we were financially solvent and able to book for NESI 2012.
A round of applause; it's been
a *lot* of work (mostly done by Lynn and R.D.), but the 2011
Squeeze-In at Chimney Corner came off with hardly a hitch<whew>.
And a second round of applause for all the people
of the Button Box and Rich Morse who did all that work down through
years.
Having taken over NESI, we can truly
say we never knew all the work that went into the magic of twenty
years.
We
are have incorporated as a non-profit affiliated with the
Country
Dance and Song Society (thanks R.D.) in a move to regularize aspects of NESI.
We
should point out that organizing NESI is a labor of love: none of us
gets a penny for anything but expenses and all of us pay for our
registration just like every other attendee. If you'd like to
volunteer and lend a hand, we'd be most grateful. Drop an email
to volunteer@squeeze-in.org. Also, we will post a list of
jobs/work that we could use a hand with.
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