the suffragette stuff... again.

[jenthompson]

First of all - thanks for all the extra perspectives on the exchange between the museum director. It really did help a lot. I think I can understand where she was coming from now, but I'm still not sure that changes my overall feelings about what happened. Oh well. I think time is the best medicine in this situation. We'll address it again at the business meeting in a few months.

I tried to start a discussion about alternate event ideas on the DFWCG yahoo list, but you guys seem to get oddly shy over there, so feel free to give me feedback here if that is easier. I think I'm leaning toward the Plano Farmstead for our first attempt, and then Old City Park, and the a tearoom if those don't pan out. And the only reason that I'm putting the tearoom last is because we are supposed to have another tea later in the summer, so I'd kind of like to save that for later. BTW, Chestnut Square is out because they have farmers markets there every Saturday. I don't know of any other historical sites off the top of my head, but there might be some that I'm overlooking.

I'd suggest the Dallas Arboretum, but admission is $10 and parking is $7, so we might as well save our money and go have a nice tea party! (BTW, we need to talk about this in regards to the Georgian Picnic! I don't think people realized that admission was that much when we voted on locations!) There are probably other public parks that we could meet at for free, but it's memorial day weekend, so I expect most parks to be crowded, which could suck.

After that, I'm out of ideas, other just just hosting a party at my house... which I am definitely willing to do, but it's just not as exciting. Do you guys have any other suggestions?

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[jaelie.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that it was a $10 admittance to the Arboretum. That does seem a little steep. I guess I was expecting it to be more along the lines of the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens (i.e. free, heh).

I think you're on the right track as for locations. I didn't know Chestnut Square had a farmers' market on Saturday - that's too bad, since we already have a connection with them. Ah, well. But yeah. Plano, then Dallas, then Tearoom, then a party at someone's house.

If you need me to do anything, let me know.

[christylee.livejournal.com]

I have no good advice. I've lost my appetite after the suffragette thing and it's up in the air on if Crystal is still coming up. I do plan on wearing my Edwardian outfit to the September show.

As for November I can't go the second weekend so I'm no help.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

(Yow, that IS a lot for Dallas Arboretum admission! I've been mulling over what you told me, but I hadn't realized that. Do they disallow food? I really think we could get away with it at the FW Botanic Gardens; I think people have picnics there all the time, and there's nothing about it on the website.)

So anyway, yes, I was going to suggest the Botanic Gardens as a location. Not a historical site, unless you consider that it's actually 109 years old, according to the website. So it definitely would have been around at the right time period.

There's also Fort Richardson, but that's a *really* long distance away for y'all in the Dallas area, and not really the right sort of venue. It works for post-CW and WW II, but not much else.

Log Cabin Village is another site, but 1850s; not really accurate! There's a lovely park area across the street, though, in that area by the Colonial gold course and the Zoo. Lots of grass with a couple of huge trees. Memorial Day weekend means there will be other people there, probably, but it's usually fairly open and a pretty big area. Someone can get there early to stake down a spot. (I'd volunteer, but my brother is getting married in Minnesota that day so I'm definitely not available!)

And there's always the Stockyards. It's a pretty big area, actually; it might be worth a call or an email to find out what's there and what's going on. The Livestock Exchange was built in 1902, and as the "Wall Street of the West," might actually have been a good place for suffragettes to picket!

Hmm... *goes off to ponder*