Congratulations to our colleagues who organized and brought off the 
2011 SHA Conference in Austin, Texas. The meeting was attended by 
over 1,200 people, the sessions were good and well scheduled, and the 
hotel was excellent in its arrangements and location. The Austin 
Hilton was right next to historic Sixth Street one of the oldest 
corpus of early buildings in the city.

The Business Meeting was well organized and run; not overly long. The 
Banquet-Awards Ceremony was also very well run and quite enjoyable, 
even emotional at points. It was also announced that George Miller 
will be the 2012 recipient of the J. C. Harrington Medal.

Austin, which many of us had never visited, turned out to be an 
easily walked city with numerous historic locations (Texas State 
Cemetery, French Legation, State Capitol building, U of Texas campus 
(LBJ Library) and Lady Bird Lake). Lots of good places to eat and, of 
course, the Weird Museum on Sixth Street (I was not aware that Texas 
also has a version of Big Foot).

Congratulations. Very well done.