Thursday, August 16, 2018

The Jefferson Walk

Thursday morning I hit the lobby early and grabbed a pastry from Starbuck's for breakfast. I chatted with Clifford Mishler and John Feigenbaum before meeting up with Joel Orosz. He was going lead Kellen Hoard, his mom and me on a recreation of Thomas Jefferson's walk on July 11, 1792 when he delivered silver to the U.S. Mint to be made into our first Federal coinage, the 1792 Half Dismes. It was an enjoyable morning.

Tom, Joel, Kellen and Cathy

Reconstructed house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence

Afterwards we stopped in the Reading market for snacks. Here we fed Philbert, a pig sculpture collecting donations to feed the needy. Then I fed myself a nice Gumbo from Beck's Cajun foodstand.

Feed Philbert

My next stop was the Numismatic Literary Guild symposium with Charles Morgan of Coinweek, CDN Editor Josh McMorrow-Hernandez and Scott Travers. It was an interesting discussion of popular ploys and pitfalls in reaching out to the non-collecting public. Afterwards I chatted a bit with Pete Smith, Bob Leonard and Maggie Judkins of COINage magazine.

Next I participated in the NBS board meeting, where we covered a number of issues including finances, membership, our Constitution and nonprofit status, The E-Sylum and more.

NBS Symposium

Immediately after the board meeting was the NBS Symposium featuring speaker Roger Burdette. He gave an excellent talk on doing numismatic research, and his presentation is already available on the NBS web site.

To read Roger's full presentation, see:

Concepts of Numismatic Research (http://www.coinbooks.org/resources/numismatic_research.pdf)

After the symposium I marched back to Becks for corn chowder and another helping of Gumbo to tide me over until dinner. I visited some more bourse tables and returned to my room for a bit before the NLG Bash.

NLG Bash

The Bash venue was difficult to find, but I managed to get there. I paid Maurice Rosen for my ticket and spoke a bit with Mark Ferguson and John and Nancy Wilson.

I found an empty seat at a table with Paul Gilkes, Pete Smith, David Schwager, Kellen Hoard, Allan Schein and others.

Pete Smith, Dan Hansen, Allan Schein, Kellen Hoard, David Schwager

David Sundman, Susan Trask, David Gladfelter, Steve Roach, Caleb Noel, Dennis Tucker, Frank J. Colletti and ???

David Lisot filming

Bob Leonard, Deb Kurtz, Len Augsburger, Ute Wartenberg Kagan

More next week on the NLG award winners.

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