Hard to believe it’s mid-October already. Last weekend I was in Columbia, MO, for the MCB annual Celebration. I’ve talked about this before—History and Fiction: Dueling Narratives—and all I’ll add here is that the programming for the day was marvelous.
Turnout was another matter. It wasn’t embarrassing low, to be sure, but it wasn’t up where I’d hoped it would be. We have a lot to learn about proper promotions. But it was generally successful enough that there is no question about next year, which will be—
MISSOURI GENRE.
I sort of grabbed the title out of the air at the last board meeting, just so we could all start thinking about it and working toward it, and to make sure everyone understood that we have a program (even though we don’t, exactly). …