Greeting to List Members. I have a request. Please send to address below, your ideas for an "Education Site" at furture South Eastern Flower Shows. In mid February of 1998, there will be the Annual 'Southeastern Flower Show', in midtown Atlanta, Georgia. The flower show typically draws 56,000 people in five days at 9 hours per day. Our local Bee keepers association is allowed a 10 foot square area in which to set up an educational site where 1,200 plus people will walk past in a 9 hour period. The site is inside an OLD 'Sear & Roebuck' building in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The floor is concrete, the walls are OLD cinder blocks and the area is actually very cool for early February. We typically show a single frame of a deep super, Observation hive. Both long sides are open for public inspection thru plexi glass, with Bee keepers on duty for information and safety. The Observation hive is a real drawing card. We, the local association, do not have money to donate to this site and we are not allowed to sell anything to fund the endevor. The positive side, we find new members, we make contacts for honey or hive products or bee talks that almost make it profitable. We need ideas for the smallish area. We have had themes, Bees are Angles of Argiculure, Evolution of the Bee Hive, Extinct - Wild Bees We have Known, and others. The folks that set up and run the Flower Show will donate all the flowers the area will hold. It is awkward to explain to a attentive group, that bees do not work the White and Purple Hyacinth or the Daffodils that blanket the area. Honey displays, 10 jars or hundreds are a complete flop. The folks want to buy. "Why can't I buy a jar, there are dozens of bottles just sitting there. Or "Un hu, lotsa pretty colors, can I taste one of the pretty yellow jars up near the top?" No, we don't do that sort of thing to the general public. The Atlanta Flower Show --folks want an 'Educational Bee Keepers site' set up. I have some 'little theatre' experience, but the local club thinks I'm daff to suggest making a 'set' liken a Bee Yard. And you cannot get technical with the general public. They are real quick with, "Oh mumm", and wander away. Any suggestion gladly accepted. Thanks. E-mail: [log in to unmask] J.C.Peacock, :-}, US Postal Address; 6660 Imperial Dr., Morrow, GA 30260-2208 Retired Staff Sargent. Granddad to 6. 3 of each. 14 years B keepr. 8 Italian hives. Small Craft sailor. One eyed cabinet maker. *-) , "Every day discover something new in the every day things around you, look at things differently." _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]