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 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- Visit www.honeybeeworld.com/BEE-L for rules, FAQ and other info --- ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::