My wife’s paternal grandparents started coming to Cape Cod in the 1930s. They camped at Popponesset Beach, Mashpee. As seen in the above post card, the camping area had “all modern conveniences,” by which they meant a water pump and an outhouse!

By 1940 my wife’s family had purchased a twenty-five-foot-wide lot designed for tenting on Wilson’s Grove, Popponesset. Her father built a one-room cottage, but further development along the shore in this part of the Cape was delayed by World War II. This family history is why we still come to Mashpee today.

My wife collects Cape Cod material, especially of course items relating to Mashpee. Mashpee, until 1870, was called the Marshpee District, the area reserved for the Wampanoag Indians living on the Cape. As a result, Mashpee did not become a tourist area like other areas of the Cape and there are relatively fewer items than for the other parts of the Cape. One thing you can find are items and especially post cards of Camp Farley, the local camp that is still operating today.

One of the prizes of her Mashpee collection is a 1938 Camp Farley brochure.

One of the reasons we love coming to the Cape in the summer is to get out of the Texas heat and enjoy the relatively mild climate. While the Cape is lovely in the summer, one statement in the Camp Farley “What to Bring” list jumped out at us.

Do you see it? “Bedding – Four heavy wool blankets or their equivalent and a small pillow. The nights are often cold.” Okay. Then underlined for emphasis “Three blankets are not enough.” Over the years this has stuck with us and we have commented to each other “Three blankets are not enough!” Obviously there has been some change in the weather when you need four wool blankets in the heart of the summer. Recall the camp was only open June 26 to August 7th.

Here things stood until a few weeks ago, when I came across a Camp Farley post card. It was a fairly common example, but I nonetheless pointed it out to my wife. She noticed what I had not.

Written in July 1942, a camper is asking for – wait for it – another blanket! “If & when Auntie comes down, will you send down another blanket. It is awful cold down here.” How could this not become part of the collection? It is a cautionary tale; when they say “three wool blankets are not enough” you should believe them. I hope the camper got her blanket!

This little Cape Cod story to my mind perfectly illustrates some of the joys of collecting – making connections, learning something (here about climate change) and having fun. I hope all of you have some similar experiences in your endeavors.

STEREO CARD OF COTTON PLANTATION

[African American] Strohmeyer & Wyman; Underwood & Underwood, Cotton is King. Plantation Scene, Georgia, U.S.A. New York; London; Toronto; Ottawa, Kan.: Underwood & Underwood. 1895. Photographic print on peach card mount. Stereograph.  Mount 9 x 18 cm. Soil to front of mount. Very good.                      OCLC shows three holdings (Boston Athenaeum; Monash Univ. Lib. & TAMU). A stereo card showing African American men, women, and children picking cotton in a large cotton field. Title printed under right image. Title printed in English and five other languages on verso of mount. Copyright statement printed lower right of recto: Copyright 1895 by Strohmeyer & Wyman. Publisher’s imprint on left margin of recto. Printed on right margin of recto: Works and Studios, Arlington, N.J. Littleton, N.H. Washington D.C. Sun Sculpture Trade Mark. Card mount has rounded corners.

STERO CARD OF COTTON PLANTATION

[African American] Picking Cotton, Georgia. Littleton, N.H.: Littleton View Co., Publishers. [Circa 1890s] Photographic print on peach card mount. Stereograph.  Mount 9 x 18 cm.             OCLC shows no holdings for this item. A stereo card showing African American men picking cotton in a large cotton field. Title printed under right image. Printed on right margin of recto: Sold only by Underwood & Underwood, Baltimore, Md.- Ottowa, Kn. Publisher’s imprint on left margin of recto. Card mount has rounded corners.

UNRECORDED 1901 RAILROAD LAND SALES

[Alabama] [Mississippi] [Railroads] Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company; Alabama Land & Development Co. Mobile and Ohio Lands in Alabama and Mississippi. Louisville, Ky.: F. C. Nunemacher Press. 1901. Pictorial wraps. 20 cm. Illustrated. There is a 1/2″ separation at bottom of fold on front cover. A little corner and edge wear.            

OCLC shows no holdings for this item. There is one holding for a similar item from 1895 (Univ. Alabama).  Promotional literature with information about various towns, climate, health, labor rates, tax rates, prices of materials, crops, livestock, how to obtain government land, and other subjects. Also includes letters from northern settlers.

UNRECORDED 1915 ARKANSAS PROMO

[Arkansas] Blytheville. In the Heart of the St. Francis Valley in the State of Arkansas. [Cover title] Blythville, Arkansas: Press of the News for the Business Men’s Club. [Circa 1915] White pictorial wraps. Illustrated. pp. Name and address written on the front cover, staples rusty, else very good.             OCLC shows no holdings. A promotional for home seekers. Great photographs. Blytheville in northeastern Arkansas, was founded by Methodist clergyman Henry T. Blythe in 1879. The lumber industry brought sawmills and a rowdy crowd, and the area was known for its disreputable saloon culture during the 1880s and 1890s. The cleared forests enabled cotton farming to take hold, encouraged by ongoing levee building and waterway management; the population grew significantly after 1900.

1891 ARKANSAS BROADSIDE WITH AFRICAN AMERICAN JUROR

[Arkansas] [African Americans] [Law] A B Hillmantle. Trial of A.B. Hillmantle, leader of low prices. A separate verdict wanted from each juror. … Opinion of the judge: upon this verdict, I find A.B. Hillmantle, guilty of selling dry goods notions, boots & shoes, hats & caps, clothing, groceries and general m’dse. Hartman, Ark. [New York]: Elsas, Keller & Co., W. Broadway and Thomas St., N.Y. 1891. Broadside. 50.8 x 35.5 cm. Has been folded. A few small edge tears, light foxing and age toning, else very good.

          OCLC shows three holdings (Harvard; Harvard Law Sch. & Univ. Michigan). An advertisement in broadside format, written as jury’s verdict and judge’s opinion in a trial. Illustrated with a courtroom scene that includes a racially mixed jury. Printers Herman Elsas and David Keller were active in New York City by 1891. Hartman is located in southwestern Johnson County, Arkansas. It was settled by German immigrants in the 1880s after railroad service was established. A center of cotton and peach farming, as well as coal production, the city prospered until the Great Depression. – Encyclopedia of Arkansas. A. B. Hillmantle was born in Shiawassee County, Mich., in January, 1855, to parents who were native Germans. He came to Arkansas in 1878. “Mr. Hillmantle is the owner of considerable property, and has done well in his adopted State, so well in fact, that here he expects to make his home for the future. His farm is rented out, and his attention is devoted to merchandising at Hartman, his stock of general merchandise being valued at about $6,000. He also owns residence property in the town worth $500. He is one of the substantial citizens and business men of Hartman, and the post-office, which is kept in his store, is managed by G. C. Henry, who is postmaster, and the father-in-law of Mr. Hillmantle. The latter and his wife are members of the Catholic Church.” – Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Johnson County, Arkansas. 1891.

UNRECORDED 1875 TEXAS COLONIZATION BROADSIDE

[Texas] Texas Land and Colonization Company. Read! Read! If you read this it will surely induce you to secure a home for nothing. Hundreds have already found pleasant and profitable homes within the Lone Star State, such as no other could give them. Oxford, Milam County, Texas follows the example set by old cities of the West nearly a century ago. … [Cincinnati, Ohio?]: Texas Land and Colonization Company. [1875] Broadside. x  A few fold splits, small hole, stains. Has been folded. Good.

            OCLC shows no holdings for this item or this company. Milam County is in east central Texas and is bordered by Robertson, Burleson, Lee, Williamson, Bell, and Falls counties. Cameron, the county seat, is sixty miles northeast of Austin and 140 miles south of Dallas. Until the first railroad arrived in the 1870s, the county was without a cheap and reliable way to ship or receive products.  The International and Great Northern Railroad was built from the Brazos River to Rockdale in 1874 and from Rockdale to Austin in 1876; the towns of Gause, Milano, Rockdale, and Thorndale were soon thriving communities. – Handbook of Texas. The proposed town of Oxford was not so lucky. Despite the unique plan proposed in this circular, to give away free town lots to anyone sending $2.50 postage and handling, it does not seem to have thrived, and I can find no mention of it today. An interesting document from the Texas boom of the 1870s brought on by the railroad’s arrival.

J. Frank Dobie was a storyteller and someone who appreciated a good story told by others. The good folks in Live Oak County celebrate their native son with a story-telling festival every November. This great event features live music, food and campfires, in addition to the tales of Texas.

I was fortunate enough to attend this year along with some of my compadres. Although rain threatened all week, on the evening of the event it was fine. Here are a few photographs to give a flavor of the event.

My friend Ron Patterson’s hat.

It was a lovely night under the stars:

Mark your calendars and come out next year! In honor of the event I prepared a catalog of Dobie books, many rare, signed and inscribed. E-mail me to receive a copy or send me your wants.

As a child in Texas, I read J. Frank Dobie among many other books, including Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. I still have the copy of The Longhorns my maternal grandfather, Dr. A. B. Greenwood, (who raised shorthorn cattle) gave me for my twelfth birthday. As we will see, however, the collecting bug did not hit until a good bit later. Although I was a great reader, comic books and baseball cards were more in my collecting wheelhouse.

In about 1986 my friend Professor Stephen Alton (who introduced me to my wife Pat, something even more consequential and fortunate for me) gave me a copy of the Dobie biography An American Original. The Life of J. Frank Dobie by Lon Tinkle. This of course brought back memories of my earlier reading of Dobie but did not by itself lead to any immediate veers into bibliomania. In a short time, however, a few circumstances combined to show me the glories of book collecting.

First, my wife Pat and I liked to attend antique shows. In those long-lost pre-internet days, in person shopping was the only choice. Chronicling it on the internet is only a bit meta, right? In any event we attended a large Houston antique show that featured a book dealer. In his booth he had Dobie books I had never seen. Opening one I discovered it came with two original Dobie letters. What was this great world that had such treasures in it?

You could buy actual letters from your boyhood author and great Texan J. Frank Dobie? I had never considered such a possibility, and the price was surprisingly (to me) reasonable. I bought the book and letters, of course. The first step along the path to … book collecting. Three other important influences affected me to set the hook and make me a collector of J. Frank Dobie.

I do not recall the precise order of these influences, but about the time in question I discovered Detering Book Gallery and its major domo Oscar Graham. Detering’s was a wonderful treasure house of a general bookstore. Before long I learned my way up to the combination office and rare book room where Oscar was often found. There I began to see many fine books and to start the process of learning about them. The relationship is of course mutual – book collectors make bookstores, but equally much the existence of good bookstores make people into collectors.

Jeff Dykes was a book collector and later dealer. A Texas A&M man it is a bit ironic that I, as a Rice and UT guy, count him among my most formative influences. I never had the chance to meet Dykes in person but came to know him through his writings. He began collecting Texas Ranger books, later meeting Dobie and building one of the great Dobie and Ranching collections, now at Texas A&M. Along the way he wrote about collecting Dobie and other western books in a way that showed the shear fun he was having. In fact one of his best books was called I Had All the Fun! I wanted in, and Dykes was a major influence leading me to begin collecting the works of J. Frank Dobie. A third step on the path.

Over the years I met and bought books from a great many wonderful booksellers, in Texas and across the country. In the mid-1980s however, I met Ray Walton of Austin at a book show in Houston. He had an item in his booth that Dykes had described in his book on his Dobie collection. I was of course as green as grass in book collecting. It seems crazy now, but I recall it took me a while as a beginner to work up my courage to actually speak to such an august personage as a rare book dealer! When we spoke, he was very nice of course and answered some of my inarticulate chatter. I did not buy the item I had my eye on, but I did take his card.

After the book show, when I was at home, I consulted Dykes and he confirmed my memory that the item in question was a rare Dobie “item.” I was immediately struck by remorse by failure to buy the book when I saw it. Who knew when I would ever see another copy? In those days I regularly went to Austin for work. As it happened, I had an Austin trip coming up. Again I worked up by courage and telephoned. I introduced myself and mentioned I had spoken to him about Dobie books at the recent Houston book fair. Would it be possible to come by and see him when I was in Austin? A date was set. When I arrived at the appointed evening, he had the Dobie item I was interested in ready for me, but in addition he had spread out a great many of the other items Dykes listed as rare and hard to find “items.”

I was awe struck. My mind boggled to see the cornucopia in front of me. Dobie collecting was going to happen! The third set of seeing the rare Dobie items I read about in Dykes spread out in front of me was the third and perhaps most influential step that made me a serious single author collector. At book shows I now introduced myself proudly as a Dobie collector. And Ray Walton became something of a mentor to me, which turned out to be a blessing to a novice collector, as he brought many great things my way and taught me much about books and collecting.

To be continued.

RARE OUTLAW BOOKLET

1). [Outlaws][Slavery]  Walton, Augustus Q. A History of the Detection, Conviction, Life and Designs of John A. Murel, The Great Western Land Pirate. Cincinnati: [U. P. James] [Circa 1854?] Second edition. Yellow pictorial wraps. 24 cm. Illustrated. Four unnumbered leaves of plates. 84 [8 ads] pp.              OCLC shows 37 holdings of this edition, two in Texas (Baylor & Dallas Theo. Sem.) Rare today in any edition. Rare Book Hub shows four auction records, two since 1928. Adams, Six Guns 2301 “Rare.” Howes W76. The final four leaves are an advertisement for Thompson, A history of the feud between the Hill and Evans parties of Garrard County, Ky. The date and publisher are both based on the Thompson booklet advertised here. Walton claims that Murrell was a highway robber and murderous outlaw and the ringleader of a criminal network called the Mystic Clan of the Confederacy, who would incite a slave uprising to cover their criminal activity

1883 UNION PACIFIC MAP

1). [Railroad] Map showing the Union Pacific Railway and connecting railroads. New York: [G.W. & C.B. Colton] 1883. Lithographed map 55.4 x 82.9 cm. Hand color on certain railway lines. Has been folded. Stains. Good.             OCLC shows seven holdings (AAS; Yale; Harvard; Newberry; Mus. NM; Univ. Nevada-Las Vegas & Natl. Lib. Australia). Map of western states of the U.S. showing drainage, cities and towns, and the railroads with emphasis on the main line. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich.

1790 DECREE REGARDING CATTLE BRANDS

1). [Cattle Brands] Viceroy Conde de Revillagigedo. [Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo.] Decree on Cattle Brands. Mexico: April 26, 1790. One sheet of laid paper, watermarked “FS” folded into four leaves. Sent to the Gobernador Intendente de Durango. Two inch tear to the top of the last, blank leaf, else very good.             OCLC shows no holdings for this decree. By Royal decree of January 27, 1789, his Majesty approved in all its parts the decree of the Real Audiencia Gobernadora of January 13, 1787, which was in accord with the request by the “Fiscal de la Real Hacienda” (Procurator for the Royal Treasury) on October 20, 1786, regarding the licenses for irons to mark cattle for slaughter, transport, sales and inns and others, which were communicated to all the Justices in the Kingdom. The incidents that occurred after this decree moved my predecessor, consulting the correct compliance with the Royal Order and another dated on February 25th, to consultations with the Minister and with the General Counselor of the Viceroyalty, Pedro Jacinto Valenzuela. Their conclusions became the decree of June 23th. All these resolutions are included in my decree dated November 9th. Being this Decree of the utmost importance, I order you to comply with all that is contained in it.  As for the request of the Procurator of January 13th, you need inform the Justices of your district that they need deliver to you all the records they have on this matter, and all the money they had collected which you will deposit in the Royal Treasury of your province. You will be in charge from now on of all the matters of this affair, and you will give to me reports on this matter. (Rough translation) This decree emphasizes the importance of cattle raising – and the revenue therefrom – in Mexico during this period.

1880’S TEXAS RANCH BRANDS

1). [Cattle Brands][Texas] Nunn Brothers. Business card and list of Marks and Brands. [Colorado City, Texas. [No publication information] [Circa 1877-85] Printed card. 7.5 x 12 cm. One corner trimmed. Light spotting. Good.             OCLC shows no holdings for this Scurry County, Texas ranch. In 1877 one of the first large ranches in Scurry County was established by the Nunn brothers, who had previously raised cattle in Southern Texas. They partnered with Samuel C. Wilkes and they soon became the largest cattle raisers in that region. In 1885 John Nunn moved a thousand cattle to pastures in Terry County and then bought 65,000 acres of the newly available land in Hockley and Lubbock counties, which became the NUN Ranch with its headquarters near Rich Lake, southeast of present-day Meadow. This card appears to predate that 1885 purchase, as it refers only to a ranch in Scurry County.

LINCOLN ASSASSINATION TRIAL

1) [Lincoln] Trial of the Conspirators for the Assassination of President Lincoln & Argument of John A. Bingham, Special Judge Advocate…. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1865. Printed wraps. 122 pp. Spine taped. Image of Lincoln’s funeral car pasted to front inner wrap. Some ink notes, corner bends and chips to cover. Good.             OCLC shows 28 holdings, one in Texas (Texas Tech). Monaghan, Lincoln Bibliography1839-1939 No. 403. Sabin 5451. McDade 625. Bingham was an American politician who is best remembered for his role in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination. Judge Bingham’s powerful argument in the trial of seven men and one woman accused of conspiring to assassinate Lincoln, delivered June 1865, only two months after Abraham Lincoln’s death, arguing that the “intense hate and rage” of Confederate President Jefferson Davis made him as “clearly proven guilty of conspiracy as is John Wilkes Booth.” Here he answers the objections raised by the lawyers for the accused that the military tribunal set up to try the conspirators had no jurisdiction, was illegal and unconstitutional. He argues that Lincoln, as commander-in-chief, has been murdered within military lines, and that in such circumstances the president may not be able to carry out his oath to protect the constitution without a declaration of martial law, and martial law allows for the use of military commissions.

Lea, Tom. Calendar of the Twelve Travelers through the Pass of the North. El Paso: Carl Hertzog. 1947. Limited edition. Tan linen in yellow pictorial dust jacket. 20 cm. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Includes bibliographical references. [36] [1] [Colophon] [1] pp. Dust jacket shows discoloration. One of 50 copies on hand-made paper bound in hand-made semi-flexible binding. With a signed Christmas greeting card from Hertzog laid in. This edition not in Hinshaw. Lowman 48A. Sloan 295.

ADVOCATING THE RETURN OF THE JESUITS TO MEXICO

1). [Mexico][Jesuits] Francisco Mendizábal; Luis Abadiano y Valdés. Representación que al Soberano Congreso dirije el presbítero Francisco Mendizabal. México: Imprenta de Luis Abadiano y Valdes, 1841. Bound in new leather with gilt printing. Original wraps bound in. 17.5 cm. 26 pp. Initials and bookplate of J.R.H. Very good.

            OCLC shows 10 holdings. (Univ. Ariz.; Fuller Theol. Sem.; Tulane; [2]; Univ. NM; SMU; UT-Austin; Biblio. Natl. de Chili; Biblio. Nat. de Espana; & Instit. Tech. de Estudios Sup.) The Jesuits established missions in North America early in the 17th Century. They disappeared during the suppression of the Society of Jesus around 1763. In this pamphlet Mendizába advocates to Congress for the return of the Jesuits. He talks about his unjust expulsion, and how they could once again occupy an important place in Mexican society. Of special interest is his mention of the important work they could do on the northern border, exploring and establishing missions, and evangelizing the “savage Indians,” as follows:

The Company of Jesus, which with its apostolic ministry will serve as an auxiliary in the interior of the Republic, may at the end of sometime be your expeditionary army in the most remote confines … crossing plains of an admirable extension, fertilizing the fields or lands of its majestic transit, it will finally occupy the Californias, the Apacherias, the Tarahumara: it will establish wisely regulated missions for the conversion of those Indians infidels; and working with zeal, with activity, and constancy in this chief object of his glorious institute, they will pacify them with loving softness, as he has done in other ages; It will teach them the true Religion, it will soften their customs, it will make them enter little by little into such a civilization, it will contain the invasions with which they plague us so much, and perhaps the time will come when the Comanche, the Nayarita, the Apache, all the innumerable tribes that they populate those regions with danger of ours, come to be an integral and safe part of the Mexican Republic. – p.17 (Rough translation) It is interesting that in 1843 when President Santa Anna issued a decree allowing the Jesuits to re-establish missions in the border provinces, including Texas and California, he explicitly cited the argument made here: “Since three hundred years of force and conquest had not been sufficient to introduce civilization to the wild Indians of the Mexican frontier areas,” the Jesuits were allowed to return with “the sole purpose of dedicating themselves to the civilization of the barbarian tribes through the preaching of the Gospel.” – Decree of June 22, 1843.

A Brief Bibliography for Researching Mexican Documents

OCLC’s World Catalog is very helpful because many of the documents have been cataloged by institutions

Medina, Jose Toriba. La Imprenta en Mexico (1539-1821)

The Pronunciamiento in Independent Mexico 1821 – 1876 https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/pronunciamientos/dates.php

Wilkie, Everet. Lilly Texana. Lilly Library, 2009

Thomas Streeter, Bibliography of Texas.

Eberstadt, Texas. Catalog 162

Eberstadt, The Spanish Southwest 1555-1799, Catalog 147

Garrett & Goodwin, The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 TAMU Press 1995

Mexican Prints https://digital.iai.spk-berlin.de/viewer/collections/joseposada/

Rocq, Margaret Miller. California Local History

Primary Sources: Mexico https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/history/latinamerica/ps-mexico

Jenkins, John. Printer in Three Republics Pemberton Press 1981

Spell, Lota. Pioneer Printer UT Press 1963

Papers of Agustín de Iturbide, 1799-1880 http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b18586873~S1

Los presidentes de Mexico ante la Nacion http://lanic.utexas.edu/larrp/pm/sample2/mexican/history/index.html

Mexcian Political Pamphlets 1808-1932. http://wayback.archive-it.org/6473/20170713154204/https://resource.library.utoronto.ca/mexicanpamphlets/

Documentos para la historia de la guerra de independencia, 1810-1821 (México: Impr. de M.L. Sánchez, 1923-1933)

García, Genaro, et al. Documentos inéditos o muy raros para la historia de México (México: Vda. de C. Bouret, 1905-1911)

Grajales, Gloria. Guía de documentos para la historia de México en archivos ingleses, siglo 19 (México: UNAM, 1969)

Grajales, Gloria. Guía de documentos para la historia de México existentes en la Public Record Office de Londres, 1827-1830 (México: UNAM 1967.

Hernández y Dávalos, Juan E. Colección de documentos para la historia de la Guerra de Independencia de México de 1808 a 1821 (Nendeln: Kraus Reprint, 1968)

Rosenbach Museum & Library. The Viceroyalty of New Spain and Early Independent Mexico: a Guide to Original Manuscripts in the Collections of the Rosenbach Museum & Library (Philadelphia: [The Museum & Library], 1980)

Portal de Archivos Españoles (PARES) http://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html

Dorothy Sloan Catalogs https://www.dsloan.com/cms/past/catalogues/

Compiled by William Allison and Elena Gallego – April 2021

I will admit to being biased, as Kurt is a friend and my co-founder of the Book Hunters Club of Houston, but this book definitely lives up to the promise of its title and cover photo. It is a series of engaging essays and observations that will keep you turning the pages and alternating between wry chuckles and knowing nods. His poignant remembrances of some of the late, great booksellers whose paths crossed his are worth the price of admission. It may even get you fired up to finish writing your own book-related projects. It did so for me!

The reviews are in! Well at least the first one. See Rebecca Rego Barry’s excellent summary here:On the Hunt for Rare Books with Kurt Zimmerman

The new normal is virtual – on line – books fairs. These have proliferated as the pandemic has gone on. I have exhibited at several and shopped at others. There is good news and bad news.

The good: (1) better a virtual fair than no fair; (2) I have met new clients from California, North Carolina and Pennsylvania who I may never have met through the fairs I do in Texas; and I met some new dealers; (3) the cost is less than an in person fair, especially with no travel costs; and (4) no loading many boxes of books.

The bad: of course virtual fairs are nothing like in person book fairs. The size and scope of an in person fair dwarfs what can be exhibited on an online fair, at least in their current state. Seeing the books in person is also quite different, and there is no substitute for holding something in your hand. The primary thing I miss, above all, is not getting to see the people, dealers and customers at the fair. Zoom calls only go so far!

Given we have no choice I will continue to exhibit at the virtual fairs. I even hope they may continue in the future so I can reach customers outside of Texas. The ABBA Boston Book Fair is going virtual this November. If you have not checked out the online fairs, this one will be a good place to start.