Margaret Koontz prepares to decorate Fred Farr Forum
Dolores Speth sports a spray of bougainvillea
Pete Hanff and Bob Baum prepare the badges
Laura Gjovaag, Anna Wyatt, and Bob Baum prepare for the press of registration
Karyl Carlson prepares to decorate the Forum and Michael Riley sports his own green shades
Tim Tucker, Freddy Fogarty, Bill Thompson, and Karyl Carlson
I'm cool, man! (Freddy Fogarty)
Tim Tucker and Freddy Fogarty feature swim wear in sixty-degree weather!
Frances and Jay Blair join the crowd in advance of registration
Bill Edmonds prepares to sip some Ozade
Russ Chappell needs those shades!
Lary Abramson hides behind his chic green goggles
Angelica and Richard Carpenter arrive from ninety-plus weather in Fresno in hopes of finding a cooler clime at Asilomar (they did!)
Jared Davis braved the wilds of the American prairie in a journey from Missouri to California by Greyhound
Aaron Almanza and his Jules-Verne like shades sits behind Betsy and Lynn Beltz
Long shot of the crowd assembling to register on Friday afternoon
Anthony Tringali, Nathan and Miriam Goldman, Robin Hess, Freddy Fogarty, and Laura Gjovaag are visible in this shot
Anna Wyatt with Kevin Thomas
The Hollisters at Friday's dinner
Larry and the newest Hollister
Mikki, Charlie, and Nathan Hollister
Melissa Hollister and Mykel Rankin chow down at the Hollister table
Anthony Tringali prepares to brave the fare
Margaret and Hal Koontz share Dolores Speth's table
Lucy Masterman, Amy and Christy Harris
Joel Harris, Gina and Vince Wickwar
Gina and Vince Wickwar with Tim Tucker
Susan Hall, Betsy and Lynn Beltz, Freddy Fogarty, and Bill Thompson
Scott Cummings, Michael Riley, Lary Abramson, Russ Chappell, Jared Davis
Jared Davis, Susan Hall, the Beltz sisters
Stan Sieler and Kathy Fulton
Atticus Gannaway
Rex and Roberta Ling
Michael Penick and Eric Gjovaag
Laura Gjovaag and Kevin Thomas
Karyl Carlson no longer hidden behind green shades
Karyl Carlson once again hidden behind green shades
Eric Gjovaag sports his Oz shades
Ron Maas attends his first Winkie Dinner
Robin Hess and Aaron Almanza
Pete Hanff and Margaret Koontz
Carrie Hedges
Guess who?
Ice breaker before the evening program
When did you first attend a Winkie Convention?
Did you really attend more than 30 Oz conventions?
Hey, I'm in 11th grade; how could I know how many conventions you attended?
Inventive green shades on Susan Hall
Angelica Carpenter and Michael Riley quiz other Winkies during the ice-breaker
Gita Morena enjoying the ice breaker
Parker Linekin attends his first Winkie Convention
Clare and Bob Baum
Clare and Bob Baum (are they dancing a jig?)
Clare and Bob Baum (what step is that?)
(cha-cha-cha)
Oh, my coat is unbuttoned
See, I can really close the gap!
Bob Baum in the splendor of L. Frank Baum
John Ebinger and Anna Wyatt chat with Lary Abramson looking on
Hollisters, too, are trying to fill out the ice-breaker questionnaires
Jackie and Steve Koontz
Jackie and Steven Koontz
The crowd assembled for the Friday evening program
Program director, Bob Baum, asked everyone to where green glasses for the opening of the program
Green glasses could be ones brought by registrants, or those provided by Bob Baum himself
More of the Friday evening crowd
Friday evening is about to begin
Bob Baum instructs the crowd
Parker Linekin and Gita Morena ready themselves for the program
The glamorous Clare Baum sports her own green goggles
Pete Hanff hides behind shades
Decorations in Fred Farr Forum
Decorations featuring oversized reproductions of original paintings by John R. Neill
Both of these repros are from originals in the Oz Club's archives and library
Bob Baum readies himself for the opening program
Additional details of the decor
Two more oversized repros of original Neill paintings for The Emerald City of Oz in 1910
Bob Baum is almost ready
Bob Baum opens the Show and Tell program
Stan Sieler shows off a relatively new book
Bob Baum shares a rare nineteenth-century postcard
Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson shows off the sumptuous, decorated leather binding he commissioned for a copy of the first edition of Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
The binding features a double fore-edge painting: here we see an image of L. Frank Baum and the Wond'rous Wise Man
This view of the fore-edge shows Maxfield Parrish and his Man in the Moon
Karyl Carlson describes the banners of Oz she has created
Those with custom-made green glasses show off their creations
More original green glasses
Clare Baum calls for applause to help select the winners
Bob Baum showed off a recent addition to his collection; a sheet-music collection from The Maid of Arran, L. Frank Baum's Irish Melodrama from the early 1880s
Atticus Gannaway prepares to address the Winkies
Atticus contemplates his opening lines
Bob Baum introduces Atticus Gannaway who will address the crowd about Frank Kramer, the least-known of the Oz-book illustrators
Bob Baum hands the microphone over to Atticus
Gita Morena and Bob Baum prepare to address the crowd about their experiences growing up as a great-grandchild of L. Frank Baum
Gita and Bob
Laura Gjovaag's Pictures
2010 Winkies Pictures By Laura Gjovaag
The three entries in the Masquerade along with the Winkie Fairy
Ozzie McTavish of the Emerald City Green Sox, power hitter and center fielder
More Masquerade
Queen Ann and Ruggedo
The Gjovaags mark their room with an Oz flag made by Karyl Carlson
Close-up of the Oz flag
The three lonely costume contest entries, won't you make sure they aren't lonely next year?
The return of the Oz Flamingos
Ozzie McTavish continues to show off and demand somebody write a story about him
Karyl Carlson and Eric Gjovaag
Larry Hollister works on the Treasure Hunt image
Whoops! Not all the pieces were found!
In the Fred Farr Forum. Copies of the Winkie Newsletter Supplements are tacked to the light post for people to read before they get home and check their e-mail