Pros-y history...

[byslantedlight]

So, was chatting with inamac over at ci5hq about Pros and Pros fandom history (just a wee bit... *g*) and for various reasons I wandered over to the OTP's Fanlore page for Pros, and was reminded yet again of why I try to avoid it... I'm not sure how many people have contributed to it (two at least, I can see that) but... it's so American-based! And so

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[towerbridge2006]

Were Weekend in the Country cons held in both the UK and US? At MediaWest this May I snagged some Pros novels at the charity auction. They came with a program booklet from Weekend in the Country held April 10-12, 1987, in Baltimore and run by Laura Peck and Tacs.

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[lil_shepherd]

Ah, a copycat!

The original Weekend in the Country was held in York, England. I think I had left the fandom by 1987...

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[towerbridge2006]

When was the first one held? Were there annual cons? It must have been great fun. :D

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[byslantedlight]

See the new post - I've put some year-specific dates from another source!

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[lil_shepherd]

inamac is looking out the programme books to scan them. Watch this space.

They were fun, but they were cliquey. Hatstand fandom was obsessively secretive at this point, and other people became quite desperate to get in. Someone wrote to me (I was membership and hotel bookings at that point) begging me to let her come. I warned her then and there that, while none of us had any objection to her attending, everyone there knew everyone else (even if we didn't all like each other) and there would be the problems there always are for a stranger in such a gathering.

She assurred me that she could handle it, and I booked her in. Afterwards, she complained mightily about the cliques. So it goes.