I don't remember if I mentioned it to the list or not, but early in 2003 I had my photo taken whilst tatting for the Galena/Jo Daviess County Visitor's Planning Guide. In the background of the photo they used one of my lace pillows. The guide came out in May, and I've been distributing them all over, mostly because my wonderfully cute 5-year old son is in one of the best photos with a Civil War soldier. But, I digress...
My very good friend works in the visitors center and one day last week was approached by a visitor who was tapping on my photo in the book and questioning who the lacemaker was and how glad she was that lacemaking was represented as she is a lacemaker also. My friend referred her to come see me at the courthouse where I work, but she never showed up. (Darn.) She was on vacation and I'm sure had plenty to do, but I would have liked to meet her and talk lace with someone. My friends and co-workers get this glazed look in their eyes and start edging away when I start talking lace. Good publicity for the lace world as thousands of these books are printed and we get about a million visitors a year in our little town. If you want one, go to http://www.galena.org and go to Visitor Guide Request at the very bottom of the page. Soon they will be reworking the website and some of the photos from the book may end up there as well. I'll keep you posted. Diane Williams Galena, Illinois USA where we finally have snow and I'm frantically tatting to finish Christmas presents. [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
