Re: Pennsic site closing..

[Orendil@aol.com]

Poster: Orendil@aol.com

In a message dated 16-Jun-98 07:27:26 Eastern Daylight Time, Acresouth@aol.com
writes:

<< I believe it was about 4 years ago at most that they changed the site
closing
 day from Monday to Sunday.  Most people were quite unhappy with the change
but
 it was a Cooper's directive.  From what I understand some folks were abusing
 the privilege and staying on longer - well into the week - and the Coopers
 wanted to be able to have the site ready again by the following weekend so
 they instituted the "concrete" Sunday site closure.
  >>

Yes.......a good friend of mine who lives in that area and knows the Coopers
well said the same thing. In past years, most people would be gone or leaving
by Monday morning. The Coopers could then go around during the next few days
and make sure the odd number of remaining folks would be moving on soon. 
But the situation slowly grew worse. When it would come to Wednesday after the
war had ended, and they were finding a couple hundred people still
encamped....the situation was deemed out of control.
It seems to me that was also the year of the great mud.....I remember I was
leaving on Monday that year...........
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