In a message dated 4/10/2008 10:25:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
p.s. Devon did a nice job of advertising when the convention was in Maryland. Would like to take credit for this one, but it is in NJ where I made my bones publicity wise. I composed a blurb portraying the convention as a very exciting event, which I will reproduce below for anyone who would like to pirate it (I omit all the contacts I gave, simply for reasons related to space.) This caught the attention of the media, the visual imagery of everyone in lace, in particular, and the intense excitement about who the new fastest tatter would be seemed to be things they glommed onto. I gave an oral version on the phone to the Letterman show and some morning show. I also made up press packages with a History of Lace and the story that I wanted printed in the paper already written and presented as a fact sheet. (My brother had given me the advice that reporters are basically lazy, so if you write the story they will alter it a bit, then print it.) I did find that they referred to the "fact sheet" for all the meat of the article. Here is my blurb: Dear Editor, Imagine the breathless excitement of a speed tatting competition, the winner to be named World's Fastest Tatter! Imagine the romantic beauty of a banquet where almost all of the 425 participants are attired in lace! Imagine 21st century students penetrating the secrets of an all but lost craft tradition dating back to the 15th century! On August 3-9, the 50th Anniversary Convention of the International Old Lacers will take place in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey. The International Old Lacers is a group dedicated to making and collecting handmade lace, principally needle and bobbin lace. The participants will spend most of their time in classes learning the techniques of various European laces and visiting area museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt to see their world famous lace collections. Tuesday evening, August 5th will see a host of tatters compete in a "Tat-Off" a speed tatting competition. (Susan Keenan, New Jersey resident and undefeated champion tatter has retired from the field and will be running the contest instead.) On Friday, August 8th there will be a banquet where over four hundred people, most of them dressed in lace, will listen with rapt attention to a talk about-- lace. Saturday August 9th, from 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. the event will be open to the public who will be able to see displays of handmade antique and contemporary lace and demonstrations of lacemaking. Bobbin lacemaking is very interesting to watch and makes a good photograph. The lace is made on a support called a "pillow". The lacemaker manipulates bobbins wound with thread, often over a hundred on a pillow at a time, with dizzying speed. The salesroom which sells books and materials for lacemaking as well as antique lace will also be open to the public during these hours. I think this event would make a good feature article. For further information you may contact me **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
