[AT] Thanks for your help!: Now Portland

[Paul Waugh]

How can you have Portland with out George!!!  He will be missed.  Not sure I 
am going to make it either, fuel is outrageous

Paul in IN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
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Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 9:56 PM
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>> I'll likely disappoint many, however, when
>> I confess that the only 'fiddle' music I ever memorized was the Orange
>> Blossom Special, which was President Ford's favorite tune.  I think I
>> played that at every State Dinner he hosted in the White House during
>> his administration.
>>
>> Hey, Ivan, I have been to the Portland show.  It was amazing!  Too big
>> to see in one day, that's for sure.  I purchased a wonderful hit and
>> miss engine there and enjoy firing it up at least two or three times
>> each week, year 'round.  I just love the sound of those old gas engines.
>
>
> Hi Harold,
>
> Health issues will keep me away from the Portland show this year for the
> first time in 33 years.  In recent years we've had a special ATIS camp 
> site.
>
> Especially in the earlier years we made it a point to watch the fiddle
> contest.  It seemed almost mandatory for each contestant to play their
> version of "Orange Blossom Special" to great applause.  The last time we
> watched it the winner was Gene Damschroder, the owner of our local
> airport... and the instructor who signed me off for my license check ride 
> in
> 1967.  Unfortunately, he and 5 other people were killed about a month ago 
> in
> his Cessna 206.
>
> George Willer
>
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