Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association With the Quarterly Journal, Vol. 19: The Twenty-First Annual Meeting, With a List of New Members (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association With the Quarterly Journal, Vol. 19: The Twenty-First Annual Meeting, With a List of New Members

To President Blauvelt is due the credit of one of the most successful and enjoyable of our annual meetings. The first plan was to charter the "Berkshire" and to duplicate the joys of the West Point meeting of 1915, but this finally had to be given up on account of our inability to make satisfactory arrangements with the Navigation Company. So much time had been wasted, however, in ineffectual endeavor that it looked as if the meeting would have to be abandoned altogether when our President conceived the plan which proved such a success.

To appreciate the long chances that he took those who have never been to Bear Mountain Inn should know that the place is simply ideal in every particular - location, scenery, beautiful building, hall for meetings and food - except sleeping accommodation for guests. How could one expect two hundred historians, most of them at an age of discretion which demands room with bath, to camp out for two nights and to survive the deep seated grouch which would ensue? It was a toss up whether the privations of primitive sleeping quarters would be taken as a joke and add to the fun or everyone depart the first day in a dudgeon. The President had faith in the good fellowship of the historians and won out.

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