<VV> Buffalo's legacy

[Wrsssatty at aol.com]

I can't believe it's five years later and folks are still complaining about 
 the Buffalo convention.  I have been a supporter of Buffalo and its people 
 since 1982 when I did a summer internship there with the U.S. Department 
of  Justice.  Buffalo is a beautiful, historic city with world class museums  
and art galleries, historic architecture,near perfect weather in the  
summer and some of the nicest people I've met outside of my native West  
Virginia.  As for the host hotel, well, some time later I returned to  Buffalo for 
the dedication of Corvair items being donated or lent for exhibit to  the 
Buffalo Transportation Museum and guess where I CHOSE to stay--the former  host 
hotel of the convention!  I thought that the events surrounding the  
convention, especially the once in a lifetime opportunity to tour the engine  
plant where all Corvair engines had been assembled, were great.  As for the  
good folks of the local clubs who volunteered for the thankless job of putting  
on the convention, I again thank and congratulate you on a job well done.
 
No convention goes off without a hitch but I would never complain on a  
public forum about the efforts of anyone who has volunteered more for all of us 
 than I ever will.  That said, and without naming names, I have been to  
conventions that, in my opinion, had much less to recommend them than the  
Buffalo convention yet there was nary a peep from the usual nay sayers  
afterward.  I think folks have choked on the gnat of problems at the  Buffalo 
convention and swallowed the camel of problems at some other  conventions.
 
~Bill Stanley
  NJ