James Fischer wrote:

> On the website is a list of contacts, complete with e-mail addresses.
> http://www.easternapiculture.org/contacts/
>
> Ask, and ye shall receive.

Even more, if there is a problem, why not talk to the people who are
running it and give them your concerns directly, so they can do
something about it instead of critical analysis on an international
forum of what you do not like?

In essence, the complaint is that the table of contents should be
better, therefore the book is questionable.

There is a valid point which has not been discussed and that is- are
there too many meetings? I suggest that there might be on the industrial
side of beekeeping (based on the tenor of the complaints), but EAS does
not fall into that category. EAS seems to me (looking from the outside,
since I am not a member but did attend the 1993 meeting in Maine) a more
democratic organization with a broad mix of both commercial and hobby
beekeepers, sort of a State Beekeeping meeting raised to a Regional
level so that the size will bring in many exceptional speakers and
teachers. (As a hobby beekeeper, just looking at the names in the
program is impressive.) In addition, there are workshops and the Short
Course for hands on learning, most of which might not be attractive to
the commercial beekeeper but, for a hobby beekeeper, like a fifteen
layer "Death by Chocolate" cake to a chocoholic.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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