SPAAMFAA national membership passed the 3,000 mark, and another Ohio chapter –Akron-Canton –swelled our still-growing ranks. The 1996 Winter Convention was hosted for the first time by the Central Pennsylvania Chapter in Harrisburg. The meet program included visits to the SPAAMFAA Archives at the AACA Library & Research Center in nearby Hershey, and the excellent Harrisburg Fire Museum. TheCentral New York Chapter again hosted the 1996 Summer Convention & Muster in Syracuse. This year’s muster moved to a new site in Long Branch Park on the opposite side of I-90 a short distance from our former muster site on the shore of Onondaga Lake.