The Central New York Chapter again hosted our Winter Meeting, which included a Taste Of Upper New York State tour. Winter or summer, the Society’s semi-annual meetings always featured three separate business sessions: a meeting of the Society’s National Board of Trustees; a Chapter Presidents’ Advisory meeting at which representatives of the chapters present gave verbal reports on their individual chapter activities and a General Business Meeting – usually part of the closing banquet.

The Eastern Massachusetts Chapter hosted the Summer Convention and Muster in Lynnfield, Mass. in late June. More than 160 pieces of apparatus took part in the big parade and muster, one of our largest ever. There was no Fairfield-Westchester Muster at Croton-On-Hudson this year, and the Great Lakes Chapter held its 19th – and last –Greenfield Village Muster.