If I remember correctly the Howdy Party is at The Ginger Man Pub, which has a "15 degrees of separation" connection to Texas caving. That establishment's founder, Bob Precious, named it after J.P. Donleavy¹s best-selling 1952 novel The Ginger Man. When I was working overseas in the early 1980s, I dated J.P. Donleavy's daughter Karen and spent a Christmas in Ireland with her and her dad at the Donleavy estate. Around that time Karen accompanied me on a trip back to Texas to attend a TCR near New Braunfels. She was most impressed with Texas cavers and remarked to me that some of the cavers she met reminded her of characters in her daddy's novels. (You'll have to read one of those novels to see if Karen's comment was a compliment, an indictment, or ??). -Frank Binney
On 10/21/11 7:59 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > The BOG Howdy Party is in full gear. 20 cavers from out-of-state, 10 Texas > cavers and about 6 GHG'ers and a few others. > > It is in an outdoor pub. > > Tom Summers is chillin. Quite a few are tasting an ale. > > Cavers are socializing. > > I am texting. > > David Locklear > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
